MS-02 Ultra

Some other cool options at 3-4L are: •Lenovo Thinkstation P360 Ultra or P3 ultra •HP Z2 Mini G9 worktation But again, the same rule applies here: only if you can find them second hand or refurbished (for a reasonable price). Because new ones are always ridiculously expensive. If you don't need a nam

MiniPC may only have 1 oculink port so you may be able to use this port for an external GPU enclosure. There are also MiniPC with thunderbolt port so you can use an external GPU enclosure that support thunderbolt as well. I am not sure but there may be some supporting both oculink and thunderbolt -

Hi, oh yes a light AI workstation is possible. I'm running the Minisforum MS-02 Ultra i9 with 96 GB of ram and an Nvidia RTX 2000 ADA. OS: Linux Pop!OS, AI SW: ComfyiUI. Correctly configured (not running all componets at full speed -> heat management) this is a nice little local AI demonstration mac

sure, given the extension opportunities via pcie as well as the 4x sodimm DDR5 slots, this is very cool, i.e. you could load it with 128GB++ ram and an sff/low-profile gpu (some RTX Ada and Blackwell gpus have a 4w idle). So you can have there a very powerful (though almost) desktop equivalent for <

How has it been going with the MS-02 Ultra? Between picking up the 235hx version or getting a 1L form factor with 15-14500t. Would be about $150-$200 extra for the minisforum, but seems to have a lot of growing room if needed. Currently run jellyfin with 2-3 active users for media, arr stack, next c

Did you look at the MS-02 hardware diagram and the detailed processor/chipset specification? There are not enough pcie lanes on neither the processor nor chipset available. Neither for an x8 nor for a full x16 slot. The first 4 lanes come from the processor and the following two x4 groups from the c

For a small desk sized Hypervisor, I've been looking at the likes of the Minisforum MS-A1, though it seems they're going for a refresh at the moment and the MS-02 Ultra (or MS-S1 MAX) seems like a really strong proposition considering you can throw a GPU in it (looking directly at the Intel B60 beca

Thank you. Based on the specs, Minisforum MS-02 Ultra (285HX) appears to be far superior to Minisforum MS-01, you wouldn't think so?