8 points | by retro_guy6 hours ago
The 5090 is going to be US$3-4k(?) when it comes out. So at that price a lot of things could be achievable.
The only slightly annoying thing is that there's only one thunderbolt port and it's being used by the DAS. For some reason, the DAS doesn't work on a USB3.1. Otherwise, I'd love to plug eGPU in and use for simpler AI tasks such as CV in immich and RAGs on some repos.
I ended up 3d printing a stand for it to hold a GPU card and a power supply, using an oculink to pcie adapter I found on amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/MINISFORUM-Barebone-Desktop-HDMI2-1-O...
https://www.amazon.com/chenyang-SFF-8612-SFF-8611-External-G...
I actually really like them. I use one as my home server (replacing a rack mount one that idled at about 250W and went up to 500W at peak), and one running a customized NixOS/SteamOS thing as my primary gaming console (after the MiSTer), and I've been extremely satisfied with both. Getting NixOS on them was pretty painless, and even getting some non-obvious stuff like eGPUs wasn't terribly hard.
It's cool that they're giving back to the community.