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Xyuu I already tested the method described by Dragon Sword Festival Nine, first seen by me in a youtube video from SFDX Show (He probably watched your post and the link to bilibili video in your thread before he made his video, as he references LTT crew couln't make a CMP work). Buy my CMP on Aliexpress "refurbished" Jieshuo brand (with all the original dust and rust, only new stickers on the fans), you need to solder many 1mm capacitors to make all 16 PCI-E lines functional. It performs like a RTX 2070 because both chips have identical specs, but the board and fans are from an Asus RTX 2060 EVO, the CMP 40HX have HDMI and DVI video outs, but I couldn't make them to work (don't work for no one as far as I could investigate), video output is via motherboard (need integrated graphics in the CPU). Quarky GPU/CMP don't recomend it, you need to know microsoldering and drivers modding to make it work.

Hello, did you manage to connect your GPU into a motherboard RGB header?

Thanks for your answer Genwyn, that's why I'm asking if it's possible to use x2 PSU to power 1 GPU, the GTX 1080 draws 178w (not OC), but in case those PSUs can't deliver this sustained wattage (I'm sure not all the 205w can be delivered in the same 12v rail) need to know if there's any problem to use 2 or more PSUs together to power 1 GPU. Googling found that is very common the use of the Dell DA-2 220w power adaptor, but I don't like very much the idea of a external brick (a huge one if you ask me), and saw too some server PSUs (too noisy for me), if I can get my GPU in a barelly bigger than a full GPU size 3 slot case, will be excellent, so there it fits the idea of the iMac PSUs (pun absolutelly intended). Remember that 1 part of the equation in the workstation PC I want to build is the size (it matters!), the second variable is the cost, I will buy a 600w SFX PSU for USD$160, but not a 400w for USD$200 (rather to spend that money into a bigger or faster NVME drive). If I can get x3 iMac PSU for USD$75 delivered to my country, and that all 3 PSUs together are smaller than a SFX, for me worth the "hack and slash" aproach, but I don't want just to "do it", someone somewhere had came with the same idea, and I want to know if it's any viability on it, pros and cons besides the extra work and thinking involved.

Hello, I have 2 projects in progres that involve the use of x2 iMac PSU to power each one: 1) External GTX 1070 GPU "EXP GDC Expresscard beast" connected to a Lenovo T540p for render with Lumion (no GTX overkilll nor blottlenecks from the "old" i5 4300M because Lumion not need instant CPU-GPU communication like videogames do). I connect the GTX 1070 to a standard ATX PSU, all cables and components loose and exposed, so to carry it into a backpack with the laptop I want to enclose it into a case, and smaller the case, more suitable to carry around will be. I searched and quality SFX are ridiculously expensive in my country (USD$200 and more), if I try to import one, the shipment cost be too expenxive to consider it. After looking around I came with the idea of get an iMac PSU to power the eGPU, I can get them NEW for cheap and shipment is very reasonable, adding the benefit of smaller size compared even to a SFX PSU, I'm planning to use a Apple iMac 21.5" 2009-2011 A1311 205W PSU 614-0444 661-5299 that is enought for the 180w the GTX 1070 needs, but if in the future I want to upgrade to a more power demanding GPU, the 205w can be not enought, so the question come here: can I get x2 PSU to feed a single GPU? 2) Mini ITX PC. I'm about to build a new custom workstation PC with Ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1660ti, maybe a RTX 2060? 16GB ram, slot load Bluray, and all the extras, but want to make it small as posible. I like the ones build by NFC, but I dont want to use a external power brick paired with a expensive HDPlex PSU, that anyways lacks power for the GPU. The issue is, can I power the CPU/accesories from one PSU and the GPU from a second/third PSU? I know the clip trick to turn on the second PSU, and devices like the Add2PSU and the Power Supply cable adapter to turn on/off 2 separate PSUs, I can solder, desolder, make adaptors, cut, put together, drill, and plug many things to get phisically conected the iMac PSU into a standard motherboard/GPU, but can I use 2 separate PSUs to power a single device? is there any problem into connect together 12v from different PSUs to reach the power consumption? Thanks in advance for the advice and comentaries

There's another alternative like the SFX PSUs You can get ideas used by "not from concentrate" https://nfc-systems.com/ As alternative you can use a nano ATX PSU like the HDPLEX 400W AC-DC, or even a HDPLEX 800W DC-ATX https://www.hdplex.com/ They aren't cheap, but you have pay for the not insignificant size reduction, the con is that some of these need a external brick. If you really, really want to take another route and have soldering skills, can adapt 2x imac 205w PSU 614-0444 for use in the interior of the case.

No, that "beast" eGPU is NOT compatible with the GTX 1050 nor the GTX 1050 ti, I read that direct statement in the specs on another ebay page, I wonder if it's compatible with a RX 570 that used are even cheaper than the GTX 1050 ti, yes I know the RX 570 will be CPU bottlenecked, but it wouldn't be better with the 1050s... And no, there's no other alternative as far as I know, there's several sellers in Amazon and ebay, but all are the same eGPU and all have the same limitations.

To help you first I need to know more details of your laptop like CPU, RAM, disk drives... maybe your laptop have no BIOS problems to recognize a eGPU via NVME PCIe slot or NGFF slot, but you CPU can handle a bigger GPU?

I think you dont need the extra adapter, you only need to connect the "beast" into the NGFF slot

I'm going to test 1 of these in my old VAIO VPCF126FM with a Intel i7 740QM, but not for gaming. I need to render images in Lumion, that needs a "big" GPU, but a relativelly small CPU. Fortunatelly my laptop have a Expresscard port, so I'll don't need to take apart it each time that I render images, nor let the cable hanging in the laptop, just plug the adapter in the Expresscard port and thats all. My only doubt about it is if the BIOS can recognize another GPU, maybe yes because it have Intel integrated graphics and nvidia GT 330m card already.

There's 3 kind of "beast" eGPU adapters, wich should you use depends on the ports aviable in your AIO. As I can see in the pictures you have 2 NGFF m.2 ports, probably 1 for the wifi and the other for the m.2 NVME/SSD drive. You plug the connector that is in the last picture in any of the NGFF slots, the HDMI side connect to the main body of the "beast". The motherboard have too a 4x PCI-E port, don't know what it is for, but **MAYBE** you can use some USB 1x PCI-E riser cable like in the mining rigs to add the eGPU instead of the "beast" eGPU, you maybe want to try this first as these USB risers are dirt cheap now,. Remember in both methods you'll need a 450w PSU to feed the GPU and drill a hole to get the cable out of the AIO chassis. Another thing to be aware is that the "biggest" GPU recomended for the i3-3240 is the GTX 1050 (NOT the ti model), otherwise you will have CPU bottleneck, but looking prices maybe is more cost effective to buy a used RX 570 than a GTX 1050, just be aware that the RX 570 never gona run at 100% with your i3 Hope you post your results, because I saw these kind of eGPU on laptops, but never in AIOs.

Some of the things that you must have in count before continue with your upgrade are: 1) what kind of slots do you have aviable in your laptop Expresscard: the easiest way to add a compatible eGPU, just plug the adapter in the expansion slot, connect the "beast", plug the GPU and the PSU and voala NGFF m.2 you lost any NVME or SATA m.2 drive mini-PCIe you lost your wifi, must use a USB wifi adapter 2) what CPU and RAM do you have, so you can check for bottlenecks on the CPU-GPU side of things, worth it? the more viable AMD CPU for a GTX 1060 is a FX8350, not present in any laptop. You probably have an A10 or something like it, but I can't know because you don't give more details... With more information you can get more accurate help

Hello, I'll revive this topic because found on sale mSATA 32Gb SSD King Power brand dirves with the 2244LT/JMF608 controler, and cost only $10 (MSAT instead of mSATA will give a clue why), I don't worry much about longevity, as long as I want that SSD to re-use 2 old Pentium 4 and a Athon 64 as a linux HTPC and a retro arcade projects. All this is background to my question, what's wrong with the named JMF608 controler? yes, I know that chip isn't reliable for a workhorse PC, but want to know the exact issue with this chip, does it dies after "X" number of cicles? it ramdonly works-stop working? is it slow in data read-write? I will never use those ultracheap SSD's for my main or even my gaming PC, but they're so cheap I had to purchase 1 to test it (by now I'm waiting for the mSATA to IDE adaptor to plug it into the P4). Thanks and best regards.