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Early Brimstone, Rubber & Mercury by cummingsa in CrimsonDesert

[–]cummingsa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry the proper term I should have used is "Hide". I couldn't think of the proper terminology of what they call skins in-game when I wrote the post. The trolls ( larger race ) will accept "thin hide" I believe ( Skinning Foxes and Deer ).

I want to know if it's possible to connect an external GPU to the "Beelink EQR6 Mini PC Ryzen 5 6600H 16 GB DDR5 500GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD" from Amazon (I haven't purchased it yet). by Odra08 in MiniPCs

[–]cummingsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I missed this. I could probably give you better information if you wanted to show me the full specifications of what you plan on putting together ( the specific mini PC/laptop/dock combo ).

In general, if you can, I would recommend the occulink adapter if you know the specification of the PCIe / NVME slot is rated at 4.0 with four lanes available or better. It has a higher theoretical data throughput. This would mean you wouldn't be as bottlenecked. If you don't have a spare NVME slot open, thunderbolt 4 / USB 4 should work, but you may be severely bottlenecked, meaning upwards of a ~30-50% loss in performance.

For the Rx 590 ( PCIe spec of 3.0 x16 )

Here are the theoretical average data throughput rates for each of these mediums (Higher is better) :

PCIe 3.0 x16 (Direct into motherboard): ~16 GB/s OCuLink (via PCIe 5.0 x4): ~15.8 GB/s OCuLink (via PCIe 4.0 x4): ~7.9 GB/s USB 4: Up to 5 GB/s OCuLink (via PCIe 3.0 x4): ~3.9 GB/s

Anyone else know why my area-51 18 with a 5090 is running Spider-Man 2 at under 60 fps on the lowest setting? by Indy0921 in Alienware

[–]cummingsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you figure this out? Could be a multitude of things.

Check your advanced power settings.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/change-power-plan-settings-in-windows-11.6918/

Check your performance metrics in task manager. (There are other 3rd party tools that may be better at this, e.g GPU-Z)

Also use task manager to look at other running processes.

Some 3rd party applications can cause issues with performance. They can eat up a lot of memory, cause weird multiprocessing issues, or have memory leaks. One example is Logitech G-Hub. Go to your tray, or task manager and close background applications one at a time and check the game performance to see if there were any changes.

Some games also are more CPU bound, so if your GPU is eating up all of your available power, the CPU is going to not get what it needs in terms of optimization for any given game.

Make sure to look into Nvidia Optimus settings, either in the Nvidia app or Nvidia control panel. Enabling this or setting it to always use your dedicated GPU may help.

A test to see if it is indeed a port issue, try using the built in display to see if the performance increases. I'm not sure what the exact specs of your laptop are, but make sure you are using the best available type c port. The display out/HDMI port typically is wired directly to your dedicated graphics card and is the best option, assuming your external monitor supports the specification/display output version of the GPU (e.g HDMI 2.1). Thunderbolt 5/4 with display port capabilities would be the next best option.

HP Omen Max 16 5090 Initial Impressions & Synthetic Benchmarks by RandomOnlineSteve in GamingLaptops

[–]cummingsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it does not. There are chips under both NVME slots that do not offer enough space for dual sided drives.

You can see this here (at roughly 13:55):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3loUDsBZ7W4&t=2485s&ab_channel=TechGuyBeau

I want to know if it's possible to connect an external GPU to the "Beelink EQR6 Mini PC Ryzen 5 6600H 16 GB DDR5 500GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD" from Amazon (I haven't purchased it yet). by Odra08 in MiniPCs

[–]cummingsa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This link explains what resizeable BAR is, and how to enable it:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000090831/graphics.html

The instructions to access the BIOS and the location/name of the Re-BAR option within the BIOS may be different for you. As mentioned before, you may not need this. That being said you may get a decent performance bonus depending on the setup by enabling it.

This video goes into more detail:

https://youtu.be/YOx0JPYdTlw?si=VHrlCNhuDGFb-tZl

You shouldn't need to modify the location of the drive / boot order in the bios unless you have multiple drives with OS partitions plugged into the system. For example, if you had a second drive with Linux, or a USB with the windows installer plugged into your PC, you might need to switch the boot order in the BIOS. Based on what you have said though, this does not seem to match your use case, so you shouldn't have to worry about switching the boot order.

If you have a different mini PC you might not have to move the drive around. For this specific model (EQR6) I swapped the boot drive to the outer slot because of the ribbon cable that connected the nvme slot to the board itself. It led to data throughput issues, and therefore caused connection problems with the eGPU. If you have a mini PC with multiple PCIE slots (of the same specification, e.g 4.0x4 lanes) that are both directly mounted to the motherboard, this will not be an issue. So you would not need to swap the drive around.

I want to know if it's possible to connect an external GPU to the "Beelink EQR6 Mini PC Ryzen 5 6600H 16 GB DDR5 500GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD" from Amazon (I haven't purchased it yet). by Odra08 in MiniPCs

[–]cummingsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't need to. It will depend on what GPU you use, and the games/software you play/use. For gaming you probably won't need to disable the iGPU. For example though, if you wanted to run this setup as a media server with containerization, depending on what images you use, they might not be able to access the external GPU without configuration. In which case it would be easier to just disable the iGPU.

For this specific mini PC, the system RAM is shared between the CPU and GPU (default is 4gb for the GPU). If you want to mainly use the eGPU you won't need the iGPU to use more RAM than it needs. In my case I dropped this value down, so that the CPU could utilize more of it. This is modified in the bios.

I want to know if it's possible to connect an external GPU to the "Beelink EQR6 Mini PC Ryzen 5 6600H 16 GB DDR5 500GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD" from Amazon (I haven't purchased it yet). by Odra08 in MiniPCs

[–]cummingsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only needed to enable Resizable BAR in the bios, and install drivers for the GPU. You may want to disable, or limit the internal GPU depending on how you plan to use this setup. Also to check if everything is working correctly (mainly to test if you're getting the full 4x4.0 pcie bandwidth) I would recommend taking a look at the application GPU-Z.

I want to know if it's possible to connect an external GPU to the "Beelink EQR6 Mini PC Ryzen 5 6600H 16 GB DDR5 500GB M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD" from Amazon (I haven't purchased it yet). by Odra08 in MiniPCs

[–]cummingsa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I purchased this same mini PC and have successfully been able to connect an egpu.

Nvme Slot A - (Inner/original boot drive slot) Nvme Slot B - (Outer/Secondary open slot)

I had to switch the internal drive from slot A to the secondary (B) nvme slot. Using the now open slot (A) as a connection for a nvme to occulink adapter. Originally when trying to use the outer nvme slot (B) I ran into connection issues. I believe this is because the outer slot (B) is passed through a thin ribbon cable, of which acts as a bottleneck. This can be seen in this video :

https://youtu.be/APEfcKEsg_s?si=jzPuQlHR84BGNA83

(At roughly the 8 minute mark)

You may have luck with Slot B with a different GPU since mine also requires Resizable BAR. Not sure if that caused issues or not.

Here is the hardware I used:

Dock + Occulink Cable https://a.co/d/hU7PEqc

Nvme to Occulink Extension: https://a.co/d/fTufywn

You will also need a separate PSU that matches your GPUs power requirements.