Good day all!
I would like to seek the community’s advice on a suitable dock or hub for my use case.
A short background: I had just sold my gaming PC less the GPU RTX 3070 OC and bought a steam deck few months back. My wife’s mini pc was underutilised and it had USB 4.0 so I had the idea to get Razer Core X Chroma for my GPU to be the egpu for my wife’s mini pc and game on it.
I still had my SATA HDD and wanted to access it via steam deck as my own PC leaving my wife’s mini pc with egpu only for gaming on intensive games.
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Ordinary PC usage -
Steam deck 65W powered by USB-C to dual TB3 USB C hub/dock
USB C port
i. Boot windows off external USB-C 40gbps USB 4.0 NVME SSD enclosure
USB A port:
ii. 3.5" SATA HDD in a powered dock (already have a dock with USB A connection 5gbps)
iii. Wired mouse
iv. Wired keyboard
v. Wired steelseries headphone dongle -
Gaming usage
Mini PC with USB 4.0 → Dual TB3 USB-C Hub/dock
Downstream TB3 port with 5V4A for iii.
i. Boot windows off external USB-C 40gbps USB 4.0 NVME SSD enclosure
ii. eGPU Razor Core X chroma
iii. USB-C Portable monitor (optional as I can hdmi to it from eGPU but annoying as I will need to power it separately)
USB A port:
iv. SATA HDD in a dock (already have a dock with USB A connection 5gbps)
v. Wired mouse
vi. Wired keyboard
vii. Wired steelseries headphone dongle
- Work Usage
Laptop with TB4 port 60W charge by Dual TB3 USB-C Hub/dock
Downstream TB3 port
i. 5V4A USB-C Portable monitor
Note: I have tested another company’s pure thunderbolt 4 hub and it is not detected by the mini PC, minisforum UM733 SE.
Tl:dr looking for thunderbolt 3 dock with 3 downstream TB3 ports, 4 USB A ports which can accept both USB4.0 host and USB 3.2 Gen 2 host (Steam deck)