i wonder if that's the smbus issue that requires you to tape off some pins on the pcie connector.
Minisforum MS-01 PCIe Card and RAM Compatibility Thread
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You need to put tape in the smbios pins
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Taping pins 5-8 on my LSI 9300-8E solved the problem. Thanks again guys! All 96GB is showing up and my HBA is working as expected.
Ok after a full week i have no problems with the machine (except my problems with the gpu passthrough in esxi 
).. the machine is rock solid..
).. the machine is rock solid..
Thx ! I didn't find exactly the same (in France) but I found something similar, i will try ! Thanks for you help !
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The i5-12600H is new isnt it? With Intel vPro...
Interesting! I think for most home users is the i5 more than enough.
There's a -50€ discount code if you buy the i5-12600H until march 17th on EU store. Just cancel my i9 order as the i5 is way cheaper
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The email I got doesn't refer to any particular variant. They are saying MS-01 price will increase, that's all. Again, may be regional.
That code doesn't work however, on the US website, where the cost is USD $439.00 already. That would have been awesome though! I'd have 12, just because.
Apparently they replaced the i5-12450H version for the i5-12600H (the latter one has vPro) with a slight bump in the price. If i remember correctly, the i5-12450H version was €519 in Europe and the new one is now €539. It seems like a pretty good deal considering the upgraded features (the number of Efficient-cores also went from 4 to 8).
I was about to pull the plug on a random i3-1315U CWWK/HUNSN Mini PC on Amazon, but with the above discount code, the price difference is minimal so i'm unsure about what to do now. What worries me the most is the idle power consumption since i expect the box to sit at idle most of the time and i think the i9 reviews shown a ~30-40W consumption at idle and at around 90W under load.
Can anyone shed a light on what would be a ballpark numbers comparison between this i5-12600H and, say, a i3-1315U or a U300?
Tbh, i have no need for the 10Gb network ports, so i would probably just try to disable them and save some Watts.
Thanks!
I was about to pull the plug on a random i3-1315U CWWK/HUNSN Mini PC on Amazon, but with the above discount code, the price difference is minimal so i'm unsure about what to do now. What worries me the most is the idle power consumption since i expect the box to sit at idle most of the time and i think the i9 reviews shown a ~30-40W consumption at idle and at around 90W under load.
Can anyone shed a light on what would be a ballpark numbers comparison between this i5-12600H and, say, a i3-1315U or a U300?
Tbh, i have no need for the 10Gb network ports, so i would probably just try to disable them and save some Watts.
Thanks!
I didn't notice the improved CPU - I wonder if people with orders waiting on the i5-12450H version, will be automatically swapped for the i5-12600H.. I'd cancel my orders for those..
They will upgrade them for free according to their Discord channel.
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That's awesome!
I should look at using Discord. I'm a self hosted, FOSS kinda guy and Discord always seemed slimy to me. However, it does seem like every company is using it to communicate these days. The new twitter/facebook. Time to climb out of my cave, I guess.
Thanks for the reply.
I direct ordered my MS-01 back in January (located in Texas) so I'm still waiting. Quite frustrating to read all the users who have received theirs already, especially the ones who didn't pre-order direct. There was one guy who said he ordered from Amazon and it showed up the next day!
I just spend about 5 hours reading all 40 pages of this thread. Picked up a ton of good tips and unfortunately I didn't write any of them down.
I ordered 5 of the MS-01 and I plan to Proxmox the whole lot, with Ceph storage across all the NVME drives. I plan on 96gb on each node. Each node will also have an Nvidia GPU, not sure if it'll be Oculink connected or Thunderbolt.
I'll keep watching the thread for more answers about vPro, a rack mount solution, taping pins on x8 cards, bios and kernel tweaks and so on.
I'll compile a list of all the tweaks I've found here and apply them from the start and hopefully save myself some time and headaches.
I just spend about 5 hours reading all 40 pages of this thread. Picked up a ton of good tips and unfortunately I didn't write any of them down.
I ordered 5 of the MS-01 and I plan to Proxmox the whole lot, with Ceph storage across all the NVME drives. I plan on 96gb on each node. Each node will also have an Nvidia GPU, not sure if it'll be Oculink connected or Thunderbolt.
I'll keep watching the thread for more answers about vPro, a rack mount solution, taping pins on x8 cards, bios and kernel tweaks and so on.
I'll compile a list of all the tweaks I've found here and apply them from the start and hopefully save myself some time and headaches.
FYI, to those planning to use NVME PCI switch card on the PCI slot.
96GB RAM will drop to 48GB due to SMBUS sharing bug causing conflict with DRAM module, something Minisforum has confirmed. You must put insulation tape to cover SMBUS pin on this card.
Other than that card seems to working, running at ~55C (measured over heatsink) with open case when idling.
96GB RAM will drop to 48GB due to SMBUS sharing bug causing conflict with DRAM module, something Minisforum has confirmed. You must put insulation tape to cover SMBUS pin on this card.
Other than that card seems to working, running at ~55C (measured over heatsink) with open case when idling.
Guys, I'm exploring possibility of installing a 40mm fan. Can anybody confirm I can borrow 5V from the unpopulated min fan header using this adapter? And use Noctua fan on the other side?
