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Minisforum MS-S1 is the same chip but has a PCIe slot suitable for a network card.
by hedgehog 8mo ago
Minisforum MS-S1 is the same chip but has a PCIe slot suitable for a network card.
- SkyMarshal 8mo agoOr a Beelink GTR9 Pro with same chip and memory, and two 10GbE LAN ports built in for clustering several together.
- hedgehog 8mo agoThe MS-S1 also has 2x 10Gb Ethernet, the value of the slot is going to a card with more bandwidth + RDMA support.
- speed_spread 8mo agoYou need five network cards per node to make proper hypercube. Don't settle for less!
- LargoLasskhyfv 8mo agoA really good switch will do, too.
- jsheard 8mo agoThe Framework Desktop motherboard does actually have a PCIe x4 slot, their case just doesn't expose it for whatever reason. But you can buy the board separately and put it in your own choice of Mini-ITX case which does.
- hedgehog 8mo agoI saw that, it's pretty strange.
- gpff 8mo agoThis case is cute and well built but it does have strange quirks, see also the noisy PSU [1] [1] https://community.frame.work/t/noisy-psu-fan/74751 https://community.frame.work/t/noisy-psu-fan/74751
- organsnyder 8mo agoFirst I've heard of this thread (I haven't spent much time on the forums for a while), but my Framework Desktop definitely has the PSU noise issue, and it doesn't seem correlated to system load. Otherwise a really solid machine.
- AmVess 8mo agoThat PCI slot has low power output, not suitable for what people would plug into it. Easier to cover it than run into support problems. It won't run a GPU directly. It will run an Oculink card which will allow use of an egpu.
- jsheard 8mo agoI can't imagine why you'd want to buy a beefy SOC with unified memory, only to have it host a discrete GPU through it's narrow PCIe x4 interface. You'd be better off with a traditional CPU that supports a proper x16 slot.
- coredog64 8mo agoIf you want to try both "Team Red" and "Team Green" stuff without having 2 hosts to manage, the x4 interface is a reasonable tradeoff.
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- tuukkah 8mo agoIn their article, AMD chose to use the built-in 5Gbe NIC, but I read you could use the two USB4 @40Gbps ports as interconnects too (or for USB NICs).