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GPU Review: Low Profile & Single Slot RTX 4060 (Frankenstein) from Taobao
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As far as i understand it you can pretty much force the use of the official driver, it's in the franenstein driver repo
kinda bummed about pricing, hopefully they can ship directly through aliexpress ?
just tried it with NVcleaninstall and it * seems * to work - but you need to manually select the correct hardware ID for this 4060m from a long list in NVcleaninstall
still need to try if it also works with a clean windows installation, since I already had the modded driver installed on this system before
A trick could make the latest Nvidia game-ready driver work on this modded graphic card with mobile GPU chips without 3rd party software.
1: Download the latest driver on Nvidia's website
2: Extract it using 7zip or other unzip tools
3: Get to the device manager, right-click on the GPU device with an exclaimation mark, and select update driver
4: Select the correct inf in the unzip files and try to install the 1660ti max Q driver, if nothing goes wrong the driver should be able to recognize the GPU and the exclamation mark in the device manager should be gone
5: Double-click the driver you downloaded in step 1 and perform normal installation again. If not the DLSS function will be bugged and unable to turn on in the game.
1: Download the latest driver on Nvidia's website
2: Extract it using 7zip or other unzip tools
3: Get to the device manager, right-click on the GPU device with an exclaimation mark, and select update driver
4: Select the correct inf in the unzip files and try to install the 1660ti max Q driver, if nothing goes wrong the driver should be able to recognize the GPU and the exclamation mark in the device manager should be gone
5: Double-click the driver you downloaded in step 1 and perform normal installation again. If not the DLSS function will be bugged and unable to turn on in the game.
Surely I did...
I bought an RTX4060 from HuiTong and installed it into the Minisforum MS-01 with the latest driver as shown below.
Knew about this method because I've been hands-on with a modified RTX2080m before.
It shared the same method to get the windows to recognize the graphic card so I tried.
Fortunately, it works.
Sad at price, can get a real 4060 for $295 from Amazon. This is $350 off SuperBuy. I would want to use it in a H610 PIO. I can remove the fans and put a blower or two over the PIO motherboard (hot tip, the Zillion H610 PIO board is $73 on AliExpress this week). That would accomplish basically what I want for much cheaper.
I do like the small flat power connection however. I have already bought the mini connectors and pins for Gigabyte 3080 Turbo cards. (I put a Zotac 3090 Trinity fan on one)
I do like the small flat power connection however. I have already bought the mini connectors and pins for Gigabyte 3080 Turbo cards. (I put a Zotac 3090 Trinity fan on one)
Sorry for the late response.
You may try the following steps to get it.
1. Open Device Manager
2. Right-click "display adapter", and select the correct device.
3. Select "update driver".
4. Click "Browse my computer for drivers".
5. Click "Let me pick from a list...".
6. Press the "Have Disk..." button.
7. Browse for .\(your extracted driver's folder)\Display.Driver\nvaci.inf
8. Click "OK".
9. Uncheck "Show compatible hardware"
You should now see the 1660ti max Q driver from the list.
Is this the single slot 4060m you're talking about? I've just ordered an MS-01 and I'm looking at GPU options. I'm seriously considering an A4000 SFF and a slimline cooler from n3rdware but, if this 4060m is viable in the MS-01, I'd rather save a serious chunk of change.Surely I did...
I bought an RTX4060 from HuiTong and installed it into the Minisforum MS-01 with the latest driver as shown below.
Knew about this method because I've been hands-on with a modified RTX2080m before.
It shared the same method to get the windows to recognize the graphic card so I tried.
Fortunately, it works.
I'd like to see the performance differential between the 4060M 70w and 90w models against each other and the desktop 4060.
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Here is what I could glean from online, but this is all a bit flaky as it is difficult to get good numbers:
Timespy:
- RTX 3050 6GB at 70w = 5000
- A2000 at 70w = 6000
- Estimated 2000e = 6500
- 4060M at 70w = 7500
- 2000 Ada at 70w = 8500
- 4060M at 90W = 9000
- 4060 LP non M (2 slot) at 115w = 10,000
- 4000 Ada SFF (2 slot) at 70w = 10-11000
The 2000e shown in red is just an estimate from me as to the performance of the RTX 2000e based on what I could find online - there are no actual results in the Timespy database yet. I took about 75% performance of the 2000 Ada.
The others are double-slot, but obviously the two Ada models and the A2000 can be modified with a N3rdware cooler.
If you need a single slot card for the MS-01:
- A2000 6GB with n3rdware cooler can be had for < 300 euros (used card)
- A2000 12GB with n3rdware cooler can be had for <380 euros (used card)
- 2000e Ada can be had for about 600-650 euroes (new card)
- 2000 Ada with n3rdware cooler can be had for about 700 euros (new) - I would guess you will have to underclock and power limit it to about 60w, so maybe lose 10-15% performance? Not sure whether it will end up being more like a 2000e, or a touch better?
Another interesting option may be to design a single slot cooler for the 3050 6GB (although the displayport adapter is on slot 2, so probably not possible to make it 1 slot).
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I ordered an RTX 4000 SFF single slot cooler from N3rdware last night. By the time it arrives, I will have sold off enough stuff to buy the card. It's a lot of money, but I don't smoke or drink anymore so this is my only vice. They should call it the L'Oreal card, because I'm worth it.
Yeston to the rescue 
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Yeston RTX 3050 6GB GDDR6 Graphics cards Nvidia pci express 4.0 x8 vid
Core code and process: GA107-325/8nm Unified shader: 2304 Core frequency: 1042/1470MHz Memory frequency: 1750Mhz Memory speed: 14Gbps Memory capacity and specifications: 6G/96bit/GDDR6 Bus interface: PCI-Express 4.0 x8 Output interface: HDMI 2.1 * 1+DP 1.4a * 1 External power supply: N Size...
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Yeston to the rescue
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And now I want a pocket eGPU
The 4000 SFF easily out paces my 4060LP by 10-15%, in my tests anyway. Although this is on my MS-A1 over Oculink pcie 4.0 x4 - which really doesn't seem to hold either of them back, despite the apparent bandwidth limitations.
I could compare them on the MS-01 but it'd mean pulling it out of the chassis and messing around with external power for the 4060. I'm just not feeling it right now
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I am still a little in doubt if the 12GB will be very beneficial?
The trend atm seems that newer games especially need more VRAM.
But at a certain point you kinda hit a limit of just processing power as well, not being able to fill the VRAM fast enough.
What do you guys think?
for Gaming, 6GB is enough IMHO for a 1080p GPU
for other workloads it might be another story (I got the 12G for CAD)
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