ACEMAGIC F9A puts OCuLink in a two-litre aluminium Strix Halo box

Pre-launch. ACEMAGIC has published a specification but has not confirmed pricing or a release date. Treat the pricing indication below with caution until the company confirms it. ACEMAGIC already sells a Strix Halo machine — the M1A Pro+, a near-cube with three drive slots. The F9A is the more interesting one for editors, because it adds the port the M1A Pro+ lacks: OCuLink, for connecting a genuine desktop graphics card. It arrives in a two-litre CNC-machined aluminium chassis, and details are on the official ACEMAGIC F9A page. Expansion is the point The integrated Radeon 8060S handles Lightroom Classic, Photoshop and mainstream 4K editing in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve without complaint. Where it runs out of road is sustained colour grading, GPU-bound noise reduction and effects-heavy renders. OCuLink is the proper answer to that. It carries PCIe 4.0 x4 straight to an external graphics enclosure, which is considerably more bandwidth...