MS-02 Ultra

Minisforum MS-A2 has 2xSFP+ & the MS-02 Ultra has 2xSFP28 SFP+! They also have a single slot half height PCI slot. The MS-02 Ultra definitely fits your bill as it has 4 or 5 nvme slots? 2 are built into the SFP28 adapter.

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

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

Mac if you also want to include LLM else you could either look at building one or MinisForum MS-02 ultra and slapping in a single slot Nvidia GPU. If you consider building one then you could look at building an intel based system for your use case using intel core ultra series. You could look at itx

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

You’re absolutely right about the RAM situation. I’ve been following the prices closely because I’m also considering the MS-02, and the spike this month has been brutal. I’m using the same Crucial 96GB kit in my MS-01, and seeing it literally double in price just as Minisforum announced their own pr

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

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