MINISFORUM DEG1 Dock External GPU Station, Mini eGPU Enclosure for RTX 4090, AMD RX 7900 XTX, Supports Standard ATX/SFX Power Supplies, PCIe4.0 x4 Expansion Interface

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Love this Dock. I have paired a rx 7800xt with my mini pc and it works great. With a minisforum mini pc I just turn on the pc and the dock will self start as long as your power supply is on.

works with nucbox k11 gmktec with an rx7900xtx like a dream. no more needs to be said.

To start, this GPU dock station is targeted at the Minisforum mini PCs which have an optional Oculink interface. I tested it with the MINISFORUM UM890 Pro, which has 8 cores/16 threads and 64 GB of ram. I had a RTX 3090 Founder's Edition which had been replaced by newer card and was sitting on a shelf gathering dust. I bought the UM890 Pro in 2024 during the Black Friday sale. and by itself, it is a very powerful PC. The only downside is that the embedded GPU cannot produce good frame rates even on the lowest HD settings. It comes with a little board that plugs into one of the NVME slots to provide the Oculink interface, so I bought the docking station to see if it could play games with the RTX 3090. If you are looking to buy this station, be aware that it requires a separate power supply with enough wattage to run the GPU. The Oculink interface does not provide power, and the UM 890 does not draw power from the external power supply. I bought a Be Quiet 750 watt power supply because they really are the quietest supplies I have ever had. The 3090 only needs about 350-400 watts, but the 750 watt power supply was available for delivery the next day. If you have a GPU with the PCIe 5 power connector, be sure the power supply has the right cable. The Be Quiet supplies have them. Installation was a 3 minute job. The power supply mounts on its side using 2 screws. The main cable which would go to the motherboard plugs into the station. The docking station comes with a mounting bracket which screws to the power supply, and the GPU gets screwed down like it would if it were in a case. All 5 screws needed are provided. The last connection is the PCIe 5 power connector to the GPU. The docking station comes with an Oculink cable. The Minisform PC does not come with the Oculink interface installed, so you have to take off the top and insert it into the NVME slot on top of the motherboard. Minisforum mini PCs are super easy to work on, and just about anyone could do it. Once installed, you plug the Oculink cable into the PC and the docking station, and you are done. You will need to plug the GPU into a monitor. I plugged the UM 890 into a separate monitor just in case I needed to install drivers. As it turned out, Windows identified the GPU in the docking station after a couple of minutes without any input from me. I installed the latest Nvidia drivers. My test game was Fallout 76. I got 71 FPS on ultra settings, which is nearly identical what I got with the 3090 on my big tower which has 16 cores/32 threads, 192 GB of ram, and fast PCIe 5 NVME SSDs. The RTX 4080 Super in my tower gets 100-120 FPS on ultra settings for comparison. What was interesting is that even after playing for 30 minutes, none of the fans was loud enough to hear over the game. The mini PC was certainly not being thermal throttled in the least. I compared the cost of this setup to the cost of building my top end gaming rig, and leaving out the cost of the GPU, the Miniforum UM 890 Pro with the GPU docking station and an external power supply was $400+ *less* than the tower. The GPU and motherboard in the tower are higher performance than the laptop CPU used in the mini PC, but I need that for other purposes. If you can get a Minisforum mini PC with the Oculink interface on sale, you should be able to put together a gaming PC for $900-1000 plus the cost of the GPU. It's not as portable as a gaming laptop, but everything will fit in a backpack. And you'll save a lot of money plus have the ability to swap out the GPU for a newer model someday. I am seriously considering making this my new standard build in the future. Note: I have not been paid for this review. All hardware was paid for by me.

When looking for an upgrade, like going from slow thunderbolt/usb 4 to much faster oculink, you'd expect to pay more. Like I think I paid 150 for my tb dock. This was less. And it was easy. And it just works. Plugged in the cable after using my sfx power supply and the little arm thing for the card stand, and blammo. I didn't even have to go into the bios. Better, it worked with Linux. And I legit didn't have to do anything but connect everything up. I'm still on that first boot. Having your card in a dock is a luxury. It runs cooler, and you can get at it if you want to swap it out, upgrade it, or it locks up. I like to run a cable for the external card, and one for the internal in the pc so I can swap between them. On Linux it means I don't have to reboot if the 7900XT has issues. I can fall back to onboard graphics, fix it, then resume. That's very convenient. It also means I can swap out my system/card at will. Oculink is awesome if you game at 60fps. You won't see much performance falloff unless you are doing insane fps 1080p gaming. Great product minisforum.