MINISFORUM DEG1 eGPU Dock, External GPU Docking Station for RTX 4090, AMD RX 7900 XTX, eGPU Enclosure Graphics Card Extension Support ATX/SFX Standard Power, Oculink Expansion Graphics Docking Station

I bought this Minisforum external GPU dock to house a Nvidia RTX card, along with a power supply. Connection to the PC is via an Oculink cable that came with unit. Attaching the power supply and the video card was very easy. You just plug them in. Connection speed is fine, as measured with a benchmark app. The unit is turned on and off from the PC; very convenient. The whole setup works flawlessly and for $99, it is a good value.

Works great, all plug and play. No issues running it with Nvidia RTX 5 series cards. Being open air card stays pretty cool and quiet. Might want to consider shorter aftermarket cables to keep it looking neat and tidy. Excellent value for the money.

I was worried I'd have to fiddle with the settings to get everything to talk to each other, but it fired right up and worked right out of the box once everything was wired up properly. Note I'm using another Minisforum as the base PC, so YMMV. Hardware: - Minisforum UM-890 Pro w/64gb of RAM - Radeon RX 6950 XT - MSI MAG 650w PSU Software: - Bazzite (that's it, OCulink handled the GPU same as it would on a desktop)

Migrated to a mini pc and wanted to continue to use my 3 32" monitors. This is the perfect solution as it allowed me to use my card externally.

No riser support bracket for the GPU. PCIe connection is wobbly and loose. I don't recommend if you plan to use for prolonged periods. Better to buy an enclosure with actual support for GPU stabilization.

Works great! I got this for a big LAN convention to attach to my NUC. Worked flawlessly.

Assembly required, is bigger then it looks. Built with quality, very easy to assemble and use.

Outstanding simple egpu dock! Pros: -Well made solid metal design -Simple features with Power on button, gpu connection, and power connection -Works great with my Gpd Win Mini 2023 connected to an Rx 6080xt Cons: -Doesn't seem like Nvidia Gpus work out of the box with a gpu setup.

It took all of five minutes, probably less, to get the power supply and the GPU plugged in, the cables, neatly tied and the oculink connecter plugged into the mini PC. I got a low profile dual 4070 super, a very quiet Corsair PSU with a manual dial adjust for the fan and you can’t even hear it. One of the reasons I returned the oneXGPU was because the tiny fans inside were far too loud. You could hear it three rooms over. The 4070 Super is a solid mid-tier card, and it out-performs the 7800 all day long. While the set up might be slightly larger for an EGPU than the ONEXGPU, the trade-off in quiet and AAA performance - not to mention the fact that it was half the price to put together - more than makes it brilliant. This dock is plug-and-Play. Highly recommend it if you’re doing an eGPU with oculink. And you can swap the GPU to upgrade anytime too. A+

Using the Minisforum DEG-1 GPU dock with an Minisforum UM890 Pro (stock: 64GB DDR5, 1TB SSD), MSI 4070 Super 12G Gaming X Slim GPU, and a Corsair RM850x power supply. Very quiet setup. Very impressed with the performance for 1200p gaming. Non-gaming is noticeably snappier too. Setup was difficult, as the UM890 Pro required a CMOS reset several times in the process or it would hang and not boot, e.g. after moving HDMI cable to GPU. Works fine after that; the UM890 Pro BIOS must be doing some auto configuration that only works with one specific setup.

Does not work with MS-01 or any of the 3 PCI, m.2 adapters I purchased. Save your money.

Performance is great with the correct desktop pcie oculink adapter. We initially paired ours with the "red" adapter cards commonly for sale and it didn't work at all. We then ordered one of the cards with the triangular black PCB board (comes with regular and low profile brackets). Worked perfectly. One notable and dangerous "feature" is that the dock is apparently supposed to "auto-on" when paired with certain MINI-PCs. While potentially that is fine because the dock needs to be on before the PC powers on, when paired with our desktop pcie oculink card the dock's power button is apparently overridden and it thinks it should be auto-on even if the PC is off. This means you can't turn off the dock using the dock's on/off button and you need to actually use the power supply's manual switch. This is incredibly dangerous if you are using the dock for testing PCIE cards rather than permanently attaching a GPU because you might accidentally attempt to remove a card from the dock without realizing it is still powered. The dock should be redesigned to have 2 buttons, one to control the power mode (manual or auto), and one to be a hard-off by physically cutting power to the 16x connector.