Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 - Mini PCs https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/ Virtualization Howto Discussion Board en-US Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:53:21 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-622 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 17:12:49 +0000 @t3hbeowulf I'm glad you mentioned this video. I watched this a few days ago as well and it is a great overview of the performance comparison in Proxmox between P+E and actually P+E seemed to perform better than the E cores disabled in the second video. 

Jeff did mention he had to install a microcode firmware update in 8.1 for everything to run stable and smooth. Steps are here:

Microcode Install Instructions:
1) Install Proxmox 8.1
2) Add non-free-firmware to debian repo in sources.list
- Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file. Add non-free-firmware to the 1st line so it looks like this---
- deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free-firmware
3) Save Changes
4) #apt clean && apt update
5) #apt install intel-microcode
- The current version Debian has in the repo is 3.2023114.1~deb12u1
6) Reboot, and the microcode patch should apply automatically.
7) You can check what microcode you are running after reboot by
grep 'stepping\|model\|microcode' /proc/cpuinfo

The video for that is here: 

PART 2! - Proxmox on Intel's Hybrid Big Little - IT WORKS! (youtube.com)

 

]]> Mini PCs Brandon Lee https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-622 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-620 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:16:44 +0000 Regarding the hybrid cores, Craft Computing released two videos about the subject. In the first video, performance was "mixed bag" but the second video was a more thorough deep dive and in a situation where your hypervisor supports it, performance is very promising. 

The TL;DW observation: In his testing, Proxmox v8+ using the Linux v6.5+ kernel did an amazing job putting tasks onto cores suited for the workloads demanded by the VMs. He did tests between Bare metal, CPU affinity (pinning VMs to P-Cores and E-Cores) and fully automatic, letting Proxmox handle choosing the best core. Hands down, Proxmox handling them automatically was faster than disabling the E-Cores or attempting manual CPU affinity settings for a VM. 

Personally, I see the Minisforum MS-01 as a great "tiny-mini-micro" with a lot more flexibility than some of the 1L PCs on the used market and a cheaper option than buying equivalent spec 1L PCs brand new. 

]]> Mini PCs t3hbeowulf https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-620 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-619 Fri, 16 Feb 2024 07:45:43 +0000 Mini PCs Tom VI https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-619 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-615 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:49:38 +0000 @tomvi No worries Tom. Glad to have you for your sure! I wouldn't say that I have done a true benchmark test between the two. But, so far, the MS-01 has been rock solid in any configuration I have tested. I had 41 Ubuntu servers running and then also used the S-TUI utility to create some synthetic load and left it running for a couple of hours without any issues. I have ran it over night with all 40 VMs running and all were healthy and no issues by the morning. 

I will do some more testing on that front as well and let you know if I see anything out of place 👍 

]]> Mini PCs Brandon Lee https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-615 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-614 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:49:02 +0000 @brandon-lee thanks for having me and for the clarification.  :-)

I'm aware you can get by the initial psod by having the setting persistant, just wanted to make sure if no other problems would present itself after running it for a while with both type of cores enabled. But I'm still in doubt if I shouldn't just disable them and use only the P cores with hypertreading.

So I was hoping someone on the forum may already have some experience and did some performance test with both E cores enabled and disabled. 



]]> Mini PCs Tom VI https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-614 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-613 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:53:31 +0000 Mini PCs Brandon Lee https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-613 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-611 Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:51:05 +0000 Waiting for my order, but those efficient-cores still confuse me. :-).
People running ESXi on it, do you run it with efficient cores enabled or disabled.  Any crashes except for the expected psod when running it with those cores enabled? 

]]> Mini PCs Tom VI https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-611 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/3/#post-552 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:58:41 +0000 Mini PCs .jimbojet https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/3/#post-552 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-551 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:26:57 +0000 Mini PCs Brandon Lee https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/4/#post-551 RE: Minisforum MS-01 with i9-13900H 3 NVMe two 10 gig SFPs two 2.5 GbE ports PCIe-4 and DDR5 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/3/#post-550 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:26:14 +0000 @jimbojet I created a new specific thread for bifurcation here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/does-the-minisforum-ms-01-support-bifurcation-with-the-pci-e-slot/

In my testing, I was not able to get the MS-01 to recognize the (2) NVMe drives on a Supermicro card I used to test.

]]> Mini PCs Brandon Lee https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/community/mini-pcs/minisforum-ms-01-with-i9-13900h-3-nvme-two-10-gig-sfps-two-2-5-gbe-ports-pcie-4-and-ddr5/paged/3/#post-550