Rtx a4000 requires additional 6 pin power. How do you plan to connect it?
You’re correct. The A4000 does require additional power.
The RTX 4000 SFF Ada Generation however, does not. NVIDIA’s naming scheme is somewhat confusing.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/rtx-4000-sff/
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I Just got my MS-01 (12600H) the other day and I have been setting up proxmox on it. I purchased two cheap M.2 to PCIE cards and after trying both of them the 2.5 Gbe ports won’t work when the cards are plugged in. After I shut the system down, take the cards out and start it again they ports work fine. Problem here is one of the 2.5 Gbe ports is my management port for proxmox. Is there any BIOS setting I’m missing or something? Or are the M.2 to PCIE cards just bad?
what if you plug in an 100mbit/1gbit usb ethernet and use that at mgmt port?
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Can anyone recommend a suitable 19V PSU which works with the MS-01? Mine just conked out - as I was moving it from my desk after several months of testing to my rack! The irony…
I found getting to the connector wasn’t too difficult. I removed the front panel (4 screws, 2 on either side, than the grounding tape along the USB ports). Make sure you disconnect the antennas from the wifi adaptor or you’ll be tethered. Then I removed the two screws holding down the MB at that end of the case and was able to flex the MB enough that the connector was accessible.
I tried to plug in a 4-pin ZH1.5 connector but couldn’t get it in, it seemed to be just slightly too large. My light wasn’t good so I’ll try again later on a proper work bench but if someone has successfully connected a fan there I’d appreciate confirmation that it is indeed a ZH1.5 connector or what the connector type it is if that’s not it. The connector is also marked “NVMEFAN2” so I assume it’s controlled the same way the other NVME fan is.
Once you have something connected there it should be easy to fish the wires to the other side of the MB through the holes in the front grill (where the wifi antennas go through) or around the side of the MB, there are a few mm worth of space on that side.
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I’ve been trying hard to find out which GPU I can safely put into my MS01 and use with proxmox, but the information is rare.
Has anyone had any success with something like a Telsa P4? or an RTX A2000 12GB?
I would also be interested in info about the A2000 12GB
The A2000 works with both 6 and 12 gb but only with an aftermarket cooler from https://n3rdware.com
The Tesla P4 or T4 needs server like airflow. It probably would fit but the fan needs to push a large volume of air through. The fan required wouldn’t fit without modding the case.
I just measured the pin-to-pin pitch of the NVMe fan connector with a caliper, it is 1.25 mm. The pins also appear to be flat/rectangular in cross-section, not square at all. So I believe this is most likely a Molex Picoblade 1.25 mm pitch connector (Molex 510210400 is the “receptacle housing” part that goes on the fan cable). This type of connector appears to be erroneously referred to as “JST 1.25” online, even though the only connector JST makes in 1.25 pitch is the JST GH series, and that has a locking lever, and our mystery one doesn’t. I bought some 5V 4-pin PWM fans and varied “JST 1.25” pre-soldered cables on aliexpress, will report back if I manage to use any of them successfully without excessive soldering/filing/gluing. The alternative is of course to buy the actual Molex part from a component supplier (don’t forget the metal part of it too, or a pre-crimped cable with it!) if you have enough in your order to justify the additional charges for reel cutting, shipping, etc.
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That’s very helpful, thanks a lot!
Please do report back on the suitability of the Aliexpress “JST 1.25” connectors, that just might be the right (though incorrect!) answer!
I ended up taking it apart and out of the box to directly connect a 4060 with an external power supply and it works great. I have pics in profile. I tried several pci flat cables and they all worked. I think 70 watts through the pci slot without an external power supply is risky.
I had to play around with the bios to get everything to play together. It was a process. I think the lanes are shared across the M.2 and the networking ports on the machine. Move parts around and play with the bios settings till what youre trying to do works. I currently have no 10g connectivity to get my video card and m.2 etc to work. Update the Bios as well. Good luck
Happy to report the Asustor LockerStor Gen 3 “USB4” ports work great with the MS01 for networking @ 20 gigabit over usbc. Do MS01 to NAS networking without a network cable just direct via usbc. It’s surprisingly stable.
Video soon!!
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Yes, just got a few parts including the original Molex ones, and the “JST 1.25” random Aliexpress extension cables worked perfectly (funnily, LCSC has an interesting name variant “MX 1.25” for the originals, I guess that keyword will work too. You can also find some “Picoblade” exension cables on Aliexpress). I then got a Intel NUC7i5DNH compatible 5V 4-pin PWM fan (also marked as Gigabyte BRIX compatible, etc., I believe these mini PCs all follow the older Intel NUC designs), then manually matched the wire colors to NVMEFAN1 colors of MS-01 by rearranging the wires on the extension cable, and it works perfectly (the NUC fan pinout is visibly different from the Minisforum ones, but the individual cable colors are correct (like, black is ground, …) only their order in the connector is different). Fan speed is controllable in the BIOS, the motherboard reads the speed back correctly, etc.
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Awesome! Thanks for the confirmation!
The database includes LSI 9008. I can not figure out what this card is as nothing comes up in a search that makes sense. Is this supposed to be LSI 9200-8e or something else?
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I can confirm the connector for the second m.2 fan header. I just bougth this from modify, that breaks into a regular pwm fan header. Going to test later today with a Noctua fan.
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Not sure if this has already been asked. If the 3 NVME slots are only able to support 2tb drives max how do you get to the max storage? Has anyone tested a 4tb NVME?
iirc I did a 4tb u.2 in the video should work fine all the way up to 8tb