MINISFORUM DEG1 External GPU Dock Station, Mini eGPU Enclosure for RTX 4090, AMD RX 7900 XTX, Support ATX/SFX Standard Power Supplies, Oculink Interface Graphics Dock Station

Was looking for an egpu dock that would let me choose whichever gpu and power supply to add. Of all the choices on Amazon this one seemed to be the best choice at a reasonable price. I did notice in some reviews that ppl mentioned having stuttering video issues where the oculink possibly didn't provide enough bandwidth, but on my setup I had no issues whatsoever even at ultra 1440p settings. Very impressed with the simple yet intuitive design, was able to figure out how to use it w/o instructions.

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.

So far, this dock has been great. Simple to connect and getting the job done. I have a Thermaltake 500W power supply and PNY RTX-5060ti 16GB card mounted to it. It's connected to a GMKtec K6 mini PC.

I’ve had the MINISFORUM DEG1 External GPU Dock Station connected to a MINISFORUM MS-A1 Workstation (Ryzen 9 9950x) for over a month. I’m using an ASUS Tuff RTX 5070 Ti with an ASRock 1000w power supply. Setting up the dock was straightforward with no issues. The dock boots when the computer power switch is pressed, easy to live with. Is it worth it? Well-ll, probably not. The system works well, but I get faster GPU processing speeds with the 5070 Ti in a desktop case via the PCIe slot on the motherboard. Part of the problem is the MINISFORUM mini 9950x system; its lack of adequate cooling throttles the Ryzen 9950x CPU. And it’s hard to review the docking station without considering the MINISFORUM computer to go with it. The total cost for this system priced out at $2200. As a price comparison, Amazon in the last month sold an HP 45L gaming desktop with an Intel 7 265K and a Nvidia RTX 5070 for $1399. Despite having a lesser CPU and GPU, the HP handily out does the MINISFORUM computer and dock with the 5070 Ti combination. In the end, the MINISFORUM dock satisfied my nerd curiosity. Yes, it works with no problems. However, unless a person already has the MINISFORUM computer, I think one can do better for the price, then purchase the docking station and GPU and power supply.

Works great with my GMKtek K8 Plus Mini PC and RTX 5080 combo.

I recieved what was supposed to be a new DEG1 but the box was already opened and was missing the thumbscrews from the kit. I was able to gather up a set of 5 of them but they should have been there when it was shipped. It is very apparent that this box was already opened and the product was used and I expected to get a new items not a slightly used one.

I'm having trouble making this work. I'm using it with a GMKTec M7 Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H mini PC, NVIDIA RTX 3050 video card, and Corsair TX650W power supply. Video card and power supply were tested in a desktop computer and work fine. All cables are connected correctly and proper power on sequence is followed. When monitor is hooked to video card and everything is powered on in the proper order, the monitor receives no video signal from the video card. If I hook the monitor to the display port on the M7, I would expect to atleast see the video card on the PCIE bus after proper power up sequence, but it does not show up under Linux with lspci. Update: My GMKTec M7 and NVIDIA RTX 3050 works with a JMT ADT-F9G-BK7 OcuLink dock.

A bit overpriced for what it consists of and what it does, but that applies to all of these eGPU docks...but at the same time, it's also one of the nicest and most affordable eGPU docks. It sucks that you need to spend 1/3rd the price of the video card itself just to host it, but that's the market, so what can you do? If this meets your needs, get it. You shouldn't be disappointed (but lets be honest, it's worth maybe half that).

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.