Mini RYZEN 5500U PC + M.2 External Graphics Card = AWESOME!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2021
- So Yeah I had to do it! I Added an RX 6900XT Video card to this Ryzen 5500U Mini PC and turned it into a Gaming PC using an M.2 eGPU dock!
This is the new ASUS PN51mini PC powered by a Ryzen 5500U APU but instead of using the built-in Vega graphics I hooked up this massive Asrock OC formula RX 6900XT graphics card and now this mild-mannered mini pc is gaming, Goliath! well... kind of because the 5500U and the M.2 connector definitely bottlenecks this video card but it still put some good performance.
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When the PC becomes an accessory to the graphics card...
I was about to say this
@@maggiejetson7904 is it good with rtx 3080ti or 3090?
@@k.o.t.o.n. for Ryzen 7 yes. But for Ryzen 5 is better the 3070.
@@lrc3847 im trying to do An rtx 3070 egpu build
nice
At the price of the GPU's these days, AMD/NVIDIA might as well add a CPU and RAM socket to them. They are certainly big enough to be complete PC's.
Honestly having your gpu displayed on the desk like that looks pretty cool
Ditto I was thinking 🤔 the same thing..
ETA, I have used one of these as well and just for future reference, at least in my experience, when running power through the dock with the splitter cable, I would have random reboots and black screens with my older 980ti. As soon as I swapped over to powering it using just the PSU rather than running it through the dock itself, it worked flawlessly. I think theres some issues with the pinout or something with the splitter they include.
I was thinking the same thing. Powering it through PSU only
they probably just didn't expect people to run anything over 100watts through there lol
Why do I have a sick obsession with mini computers? Even though I have a big desk with a 49 inch ultrawide? I love your videos. You like to build what I like to build. I am obsessed with APUs and small powerful PCs. Before I built My more practical current Geeek A31 with a Ryzen 3700x and a custom flashed ITX 5600xt. My obsession went even further with fanless APUs. I wanted to build the most powerful fanless APU with the HPlex cases. With and external graphics card riser slot attached to the top kinda like what your using, but I was going to mount it where you could change out GPUs like a game cartridge. Being that the fanless HPlex cases are rather pricey along with the components to run them like the compact HDplex PSU. I decided to just build a all in one, rather than cut up a 200 dollar metal case. My current build is probably about a inch and half thicker laying flat, than your Chopwin build. (Which I love by the way) With a internal GPU. I would love to put that 5000APU in one of those mini HDplex cases. They are so clean.
You inspired me to turn a mini PC into my gaming PC
*I have the latest Intel Nuc connected to a 5700XT in a Razor eGPU*
I already had the eGPU for Mac video editing so the mini PC was the perfect addition.
Thank you for the inspiration 🙌🏽
i wonder if eta ever comes home from work with a pc in hand and his wife just looks at him and says oh no not another one your not bringing that in this house 🤣
Your assuming he makes it INTO the house 🤣 that probably also explains why Paul's studio is his garage.
I've done this with a 2500u laptop and a 1060 to play VR when my desktop mobo took a shit. Worked nicely
Always a pleasure to watch such experiments ETA; if not were by scalpers and GPU availability, setups like this were more populars despite bottleneck.
Can confirm
Wow I love how your experiment stuff like this. Thank you.
ETA PRIME just made his own "Beast Canyon NUC" ❤❤
I would actually buy that 😁
Thanks for the review, and taking the time to test this.
I love experiments like this. Looks like everything runs pretty dang good, even on that little APU. Fun video.
Thanks for this video. I have an NVIDIA GTX 1050i that's still working very well and it's nice to see I could find a way to mount it to a mini PC to get better gaming performance. My main PC is very long in the tooth but the graphics card is still working great. I've been researching mini PCs for the form factor but the game performance always held me back from a purchase.
OMG!!! That's a $1,500 GPU. It better be able to play God of War at 50x.
😂
But can it emulate *gulps* Jaguar games!
Snes Super Mario at 360p ...with frame drops
@@PlayingItWrong can the emulator even run jag games? Lol
But can it run 3DO games at 4K?
this setup is crazy I love it
Amazing, You really doing some unexpected works. I Never expected this could be possible, A desktop GPU could be paired with a Mini PC that's really happened.
Saw a somewhat similar set up...the user called it a ...
Gaming p.c.
Love the channel
i wanted to try this? good to know i can. THANK YOU!
love your videos! Love your giveaways! Love everything you do!
This channel is so awesome!
Been waiting for dis 👍
Reminds me of some of the shenanigans that used to happen at early PC trade shows when companies would have a computer on the floor that was connected to a microVAX behind the curtain.
You are a mad man!, cool experiment thou.
that set-up is nice. it small and compact.
Thanks for sharing !
my favorite tech channel no doubt
Wow what a crazy build... Love it.
Wish you would have ran at 1440P to offload as much to the GPU as possible. Awesome video again
awesome video! did not know this was possible! have you done this with the 4750g? I have a couple of those and after seeing this video it has intrigued me! thanks for all your videos
Great idea, cool video!
Sick. That (recently accidentally leaked) 80GB per second Thunderbolt 5 should kill all bottleneck issues. Fingers crossed we see late 2022 the latest.
That's like putting a rocket engine on your nice new compact sedan! Also, I had no idea the m.2 slot was a viable way to connect an eGPU to, neat! I learned something today!
Yes and No.
You have to pay attention to the M.2 slot on the motherboard. Usually it is written right near the slot.
if it says "M.2 NVMe" or "M.2 PCIe" or "SATA x PCIe" then it means you can plug eGPU into this slot.
if it says "M.2 SATA" or "mSATA" or just "SATA" it means you cannot plug anything else other than SSD to that particular M.2 slot.
@@ClayWheeler Ah, I see, gotcha! Which is the most common M.2 slot found on boards?
@@FrankLeeYoung You have to open the Board by yourself to confirm it.
It cannot be investigated Virtually. Must be seen Physically by yourself
@@ClayWheeler are there any cable to extend the length? Like for easy accessibility without having to open it something like thunderbolt does?
@@nayyarrashid4661 No.
Only Intel Platform has it. For AMD, do it like this video. The Cable itself is already 50 cm.
It's amazing how to upload new videos every day on your channel.
This setup reminds me of the Latte panda Alpha project. Lot’s of systems being made with mini computer and massive GPUs.
This one gets high marks 🏆
You could 3D print a nice cover for the mini pc with a hole to nicely let the pcie cables out.
I have an 8th gen i7 Hades Canyon NUC with the 4Gb Vega M GPU that I've been thinking of doing this with. The little beast works like a charm with the emulated games I play but not the more modern ones. It looks like pairing it with a 1650 or the like might just be the thing I'm looking for.
Very nice, thank you.
Loved the video. Outside of the box
Would be awesome if someone with the equipment was able to make a low profile chassis for this set up and maybe wall mount it and run cable through the wall.
Personally I’d love to see more content like this
With more tests with different gpu’s
This is very cool
This is an Awesomeness idea 💡.. Since GPU these days are so expensive 😫. But very beautiful 😍 to look at.. To set one up this way.. Is a real killer idea 💡..
Looks so cool! Like something your 2yr old or cat would love to play with it!
Best content on TH-cam!!!
If I have the thunderbolt option, is that better than M.2??
Very informative. Gj
You should do an in depth video on that AMD tuning utility.
I really like that OC Formula card. I should get one to match my Z590 OC Formula mb
Way cool ETA. I like the total wackiness of doing something like that just because it can be done! Nice!!
This great.
Is there a mini and egpu combo that you would recommend for better results?
tbh this would probably be alot cheaper than a full tower PC setup and the gaming seems pretty impressive , even if its bottle necked in some ud still get impressive framerates
Really awesome, just for the purpose of proving possible !
I just got the minisforum um690 hy watching your review on it. I would love to see this setup or similar with the um690. Possibly through thunderbolt?
Such a cool experiment! Thanks for the video ETA!
Man thats huge
that gpu is gigantic holy.makes my 3070 vision like small card.
i really appreciate the work you are doing with external docks connected through bizarre but common ports.i would love for you to test different cards and the effect of bottlenecks by different cpu's . i have a laptop with an x2 m.2 connector and i would be very grateful if you could try it with different connector limitations as such .
Valve should take some notes. Maybe with the steam deck on the go it is powered by low profile apu in the main system. When it is in dock mode perhaps they could inplement something like this.But yeah maybe on the second gen steam deck
Thats cool bro.
Lovely, wanting to do this.
I have the same equipment but no luck with 1060 Strix...
@@Sero3_ maybe an amd card would work
The 1060 will pull 75w from the PCIe slot and the rest from the power connector. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Back at it again 😆 I love these Frankenstein eGPU builds
I would be quite interested to see this as a comparison between something like this and a similar setup with thunderbolt .... using this solution on a thunderbolt enabled mini pc so it's apples to apples
That gpu was a chonky boi!
I'm going to do exactly this with an RTX card so I can VR in 15W (almost). Actually, the built in Radeon graphics started up Skyrim VR but it was super jerky. I wondered whether you'd need a common ground between the box's PSU and and the ATX PSU, but I guess you haven't done that here unless that all happens through the adapter.
Finally an interesting video
I saw someone do a comparison between the dock and the a regular desktop with this exact ASUS Box earlier today. On average he found that it was less than a 10% difference.
A m.2 6900xt vs the same gpu connected to a desktop PC performance comparison would be nice. That way people could know if it's worth the bottleneck
nice. Aren't you limited to PCIe Gen 3 x4 with the M.2 slot? IS there limited return on a 6900xt? can you get similar performance on a 6700xt for example?
Strip the internals out of the mini pc and fit everything snug up against the GPU back plate with a custom low profile 3d printed shroud.
It would be great to see exactly how much of a Fps boost the egpu adds, same res and settings, just for a simple comparison.
This is insane.
Wasn't that bad
I expected a bigger bottleneck. 80-92% GPU usage is actually great
also isn't the liva q3 the smallest can you try egpu on that one
Idk but have you the tiny mini micro series by serve the home? They cover a lot of mini computers of course for different reasons, but some seem to have an 8x or 16x slot. It would be interesting to see a pc that uses a pcie riser to connect a graphics card that isn't a Miniature quadrom
Hey!
Can you do small comparison video how the newest GPU architectures behave in emulating consoles like PS3/X360, Switch and so on. For example RX 6700XT vs RTX 3070 in emulating
Omg. A single fan off that GPU is as big as the PC.
can you test out gtx 1660 TI with asrock deskmini x300w and ryzen 5600g? ** did read somewhere that the 5600g does not perform that well with dedicated graphic card. love your videos and watch almost all off it and multiple times. TQVM
M.2 eGPU dock adds the advantage of using PCIe graphics with small board computers.
...which is kind of expensive and removes the advantage of that "small" board. At least with big graphic cards.
Indeed, technically feasible but practically doesn't look cohesive at all.
Makes me wonder if there's an egpu compatible with the steam deck to use when docked. Would be fun to see!
welp should be
but there's the hassle to do with the bios and etc which is nobody gonna do 😭..😭
That was absolutely terrible. I love it!
Just imagine how it would be this, with the RX 5500xtm!
Find it funny seeing that big video card sitting next to the small PC.
Wow that gpu sometime boosting over 2500 MHz
Fitting a huge GPU into a tiny PC is tight!
like a bbc into a asian girl
Hey
Play Genshin Impact on every pc/mini pc testing.
And I Love You Videos.
Great Work.
It'd be cool if you could make some benchmarks comparing laptop GPUs vs this weird dock
well
this thing doesn't loses much of a gaming performance, it's even better than thunderbolt
meaning that it won't really differ from the desktop gpus performance which is hackingly better than the laptop ones
If you'd like to test it with less bottleneck try upping the resolution to 4K or 5K using the super resolution option in the Radeon driver. That way much more of the load will fall to the 6900 XT.
m.2 interface might be bigger bottleneck than cpu itself
There should be a modular pc style box thing for this
When are you getting the new optimus prime robot that dave2d featured...??
I believe you mounted the computer to the video card, just saying. Cool stuff.
Good tutorial... anyway, prices are not low for these devices ...
Do you think there is any way to power the mini pc from the PSU so you don’t need 2 power sources (obviously using a lower power card as well). Just a curious question
This is great
i hope you'll get that HP Elitedesk 805 G6 with 35W PROCESSOR and modular GTX 1660Ti
thats was a legit experiment
Pretty cool, actually looks okay on the desk too, you could even 3D print a really slim open mesh case to slip it into.
such a nice video ETA. I did something similar with the asrock deskmini x300, ryzen 5 4650g and a msi 1060 6 gb. It really does change the complete experience. And i got the same issue with how to make space for that instalation. I think for this range of graphics cards, it suits very well if you already own one of these components
I have the amr 5 ace magician
What would I need to do the same?
The GPU and this adapter?
I would need also an external power supply right?
extreme but hell yeah why not
Very interesting video, but I want to connect an EGPU to a laptop, and also I don't want to open it, so do you recommend some of those big EGPU enclosures for that purpose or is not worthy?
Connection is either via M.2 slot or Thunderbolt, if you don't want the former and your laptop don't have the latter you're out of luck.
How would it do if you used more of the gpu at 1440p or 4k?
Very cool
You may already know this but you may be able to alleviate some of the CPU bottleneck going up to 1440p cause 1440 is more GPU bound.
Wouldnt help cause it isnt rly bottlenecked by the CPU but by the m.2 port. Its only a pcie 3.0 4x slot