MS-02 Ultra

Thank you very much for your time and effort with this comprehensive review. I was looking at these idle power draws and report 35.9w (and 55.4w with the 25gbe nics): https://nascompares.com/2025/12/29/minisforum-ms-02-ultra-pc-review/#Minisforum_MS-02_Ultra_Review_-_Speed_Noise_Heat_and_Power_Tests While win

I was considering the MS-02 Ultra and in fact obtained 64GB of DDR5 Sodimm already but hold on to the idea after I saw a few posts about Minisforum quality control issues.

There are GPUs like the RTX 4000 Blackwell, which even has 24 GB of VRAM. The question for me is more like how well other cards with the same form factor fit into the case. Minisforum now somehow has the bad habit of selling any PCI cards instead of really selling pure barebones. My MS-02 Ultra has

Oh really? I missed those announcements... Anyway yea the MS-02 Ultra has 4 total but 2 of those are on the back of the motherboard and (I assume) would have terrible cooling and wouldn't fit a heatsink. I was thinking maybe I can get a 4x4x4x4 adapter card and populate 3 of the 4 slots (due to the

It would be awhile for them to do panther lake. Minisforum is not really a tier-1 manufacturer that gets their part quickly (at least not yet), so say if panther lake releases in January, it would be around October the earliest you start seeing decent amount of minisforum standard PC based products

It looks like the 02 Ultra is based on the MS-01 motherboard with some mods that are not yet known. IIRC it has a similar arrangement on the underside of the motherboard, like it can take a U.2 NVME drive, but still 7mm only? I have some spare 15mm drives I can't use in the MS-01. Minisforum admitte

The config I am eyeing has 192GB, thus > 128GB. Now I saw some comments that say that you cannot run it at max speed if you fill the RAM slots, to 256GB. But what's the threshold? Edit: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/10/minisforum-ms-02-ultra-has-insane-home-lab-potential-with-256gb-ram-tr