I have the DEG1 with an NVIDIA RTX 3090 Founders Edition up and running with my MS-A1 computer. Ollama is able to use the NVIDIA card and the performance is much better than the AMD Ryzen7 8600G by itself.
I ran into a couple of issues. The first is when I attached the DEG1 to the MS-A1 there was an issue with the network interface naming. My inserting the DEG1 into the PCIe interface, the network adaptor names were changed. I had to modify the /etc/netplan/*.yaml file to assign the MAC addresses to the interfaces.
The second issue was the number of cables I purchased to connect the RTX 3090 to the DEG1. I ended up purchasing a new Corsair 750 watt power supply that came with the required cables. I ended up purchasing 2 8-pin to 8-pin PCIe power cables. The power supply came with one 8-pin to 6-2 pin cable.
A big shout out to Claude.ai for the assistance with configuration and troubleshooting advise. On top of being a great coding platform for my stock market projects and does a great job with almost everything else.
My /etc/netplan/*.yaml file is below. Using lan0 and lan1 for my new interface names. Use the ‘ip link’ command to get the MAC addresses for the interfaces.
/etc/netplan/*.yaml
network:
renderer: networkd
ethernets:
lan0:
match:
macaddress: “58:47:ca:xx:xx:xx”
set-name: lan0
dhcp4: true
lan1:
match:
macaddress: “58:47:ca:xx:xx:xx”
set-name: lan1
dhcp4: true
version: 2
wifis: {}
I used the ubuntu-drivers devices command to determine the suggested NVIDIA driver and then used apt to install the correct driver. Once booted you can use the nvidia-smi command to make sure that it is configured correctly.
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