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mini xl+ pcie power
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i dont have one, but i doubt it. the chassis isn't really setup for the cooling that would be required for any PCIe card that needs more than the power supplied by the motherboard.
it also should be using a FLEX atx PSU, which typically dont have the wattage for that either.
it also should be using a FLEX atx PSU, which typically dont have the wattage for that either.
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I don't believe so, I know the regular MINI does not. Your signature says you have one, why don't you open it up and see?
You could likely run a single slot quadro card with no external power and get what you need out of it. The appeal for graphics cards inside of NASs is usually for Plex. Since plex doesn't care about how many CUDA cores you have, all you really need to worry about is where it sits in the NVENC matrix, how many NVENC/NVDEC chips it has and how much ram you want.
You could likely run a single slot quadro card with no external power and get what you need out of it. The appeal for graphics cards inside of NASs is usually for Plex. Since plex doesn't care about how many CUDA cores you have, all you really need to worry about is where it sits in the NVENC matrix, how many NVENC/NVDEC chips it has and how much ram you want.
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Great point @NickF
I do have one and I am planning on trying to get a Thunderbolt 4 card working. I believe the main reason it has the extra power is for power out which I am not actually planning on using. I did want to connect a few things to the tunderbolt 3/4 port though that I already have laying around and seeing as the transfer speeds will be WAAAY faster it will be nice for repeated transfers.
I did end up opening up half of it, but didn't see any extra vga plugs but wanted to ask before I took the whole case apart. The card fit although I was required to move the USB cable that was connected to the motherboard.
Has anyone gotten a thunderbolt card working on one of these machines. It does have the thunderbolt header on the motherboard and it seems to connect fine, but lspci shows nothing additional.
@artlessknave If the cooling becomes a problem I will drill some fan holes and install another fan on the side to cool the card. Just curious does anyone know if a standard modular power supply might be compatible?
I do have one and I am planning on trying to get a Thunderbolt 4 card working. I believe the main reason it has the extra power is for power out which I am not actually planning on using. I did want to connect a few things to the tunderbolt 3/4 port though that I already have laying around and seeing as the transfer speeds will be WAAAY faster it will be nice for repeated transfers.
I did end up opening up half of it, but didn't see any extra vga plugs but wanted to ask before I took the whole case apart. The card fit although I was required to move the USB cable that was connected to the motherboard.
Has anyone gotten a thunderbolt card working on one of these machines. It does have the thunderbolt header on the motherboard and it seems to connect fine, but lspci shows nothing additional.
@artlessknave If the cooling becomes a problem I will drill some fan holes and install another fan on the side to cool the card. Just curious does anyone know if a standard modular power supply might be compatible?
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it's quite unlikely that there are thunderbolt drivers at all.
I would be fairly surprised if some random thunderbolt card even works.
thunderbolt is not really a server tech.
I would be fairly surprised if some random thunderbolt card even works.
thunderbolt is not really a server tech.
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which standard? flexATX should be the standard, and yes, they do exist modular, but that standard is focused for servers.
ATX or sfx will not fit.
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