I'm running a Minisforum UM780 XTX with the Minisiforum DEG1 dock and a older Powercolor 5700XT Red Devil and 650w PSU I had laying about. The first time booting with Oculink you do need to turn the dock on first, but when you shut the system down the dock/graphics card shuts down also. Now every time I start the system the dock and card start automatically without issue. I'm able to control the egpu thru Adrenalin.
I got the non-pro version with 16 GB RAM & 500 GB NVME. It was over $300 cheaper than the pro version on Canadian Amazon and I had a spare 1 TB NVME so a no-brainer. I'll order more RAM for it. It was a replacement for a SER5 Max that died after 3 days. The M7 is much quieter than the SER 5 Max and better overall quality. All drivers for a clean install are also available. You often don't see that mentioned in reviews but it's a big thing.
If you look a little harder you can get either the minisforum 780m xtx or the gem12 for about $470 which would be cheaper than these and blows both of these PC's out of the water...and they both have oculink ports... (One in the back). Also, for a lot of games, usb4 vs oculink makes a big difference...to say that you'll have "a lot of wires exposed" isn't that big of a deal when you're attaching an external GPU to a mini PC... for the performance you're getting in comparison, not to mention the versatility, I think a lot of people would learn to live with it if gaming is that important to them... If they didn't want any wires exposed they probably would have opted for a full size desktop PC.
the Minisforum BD790i makes more sense being only slightly bigger but having a legit PCI-e slot and no need to sacrifice any other I/O. since they aren't trying to skimp by removing the chipset.
@@psionx1 but that's an Intel though. And connecting a graphics card directly into it makes for a very obscure setup as opposed to having a cable connected which lets you manipulate the graphics card into various setups.
@@clearnowjacob7789 Cables exist! Still waiting on the ports and OS support, there's some announcement due in December so I guess 2025 before it starts appearing :D
Ahmm have you not heard of oculink 8i? It's an 8 lane pcie, and the speed depends with the version of pcie gen. Oculink 8i egpus are also already available in the Market.
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I'm running a Minisforum UM780 XTX with the Minisiforum DEG1 dock and a older Powercolor 5700XT Red Devil and 650w PSU I had laying about. The first time booting with Oculink you do need to turn the dock on first, but when you shut the system down the dock/graphics card shuts down also. Now every time I start the system the dock and card start automatically without issue. I'm able to control the egpu thru Adrenalin.
I got the non-pro version with 16 GB RAM & 500 GB NVME. It was over $300 cheaper than the pro version on Canadian Amazon and I had a spare 1 TB NVME so a no-brainer. I'll order more RAM for it. It was a replacement for a SER5 Max that died after 3 days. The M7 is much quieter than the SER 5 Max and better overall quality. All drivers for a clean install are also available. You often don't see that mentioned in reviews but it's a big thing.
Can’t seem to find the non Pro version. Got a link? Cheers!
If you look a little harder you can get either the minisforum 780m xtx or the gem12 for about $470 which would be cheaper than these and blows both of these PC's out of the water...and they both have oculink ports... (One in the back).
Also, for a lot of games, usb4 vs oculink makes a big difference...to say that you'll have "a lot of wires exposed" isn't that big of a deal when you're attaching an external GPU to a mini PC...
for the performance you're getting in comparison, not to mention the versatility, I think a lot of people would learn to live with it if gaming is that important to them...
If they didn't want any wires exposed they probably would have opted for a full size desktop PC.
the Minisforum BD790i makes more sense being only slightly bigger but having a legit PCI-e slot and no need to sacrifice any other I/O. since they aren't trying to skimp by removing the chipset.
@@psionx1 but that's an Intel though. And connecting a graphics card directly into it makes for a very obscure setup as opposed to having a cable connected which lets you manipulate the graphics card into various setups.
Are you looking to sell any of the other mini PCs in the background there?
Can you plz test Battlefield 1 with high and ultra settings on the m7 Pro??
That's the only thing important to me :)
please provide results at native resolutions.
Can it do ps3 emulation?
Can ollama use the GPU in this $500 machine? How much memory does the GPU have?
Edit: somebody said that iGPU's shared memory with the system
good video
how much vram does the graphics card have?
this can generally be allocated in the bios - iGPU's share memory with the system
USB4 80Gbps will double bandwidth and increase it to more than oculink and it'll be hotswap so tbh oculink is obselete at this point
im new around these parts, is USB4 80gb available now?
@@clearnowjacob7789 Cables exist! Still waiting on the ports and OS support, there's some announcement due in December so I guess 2025 before it starts appearing :D
Ahmm have you not heard of oculink 8i? It's an 8 lane pcie, and the speed depends with the version of pcie gen. Oculink 8i egpus are also already available in the Market.
I think aoostar has the cheapest one