Watercooled eGPU

[Alphabear1978]

Budget (including currency): $500 (without GPU)

Country: USA

Other details: Will be used to run games on 4k 120Hz monitor from a handheld and/or laptop using a RTX 3090 (watercooled).

Partslist:

Case: Asus Z11

PSU: EVGA 750w bronze

PCIe to NVME adapter: QJJ M.2 NVMe to PCI Express 4.0

NVME to TB adapter (graphics): ACASIS Thunderbolt 3 40Gbps NVME M.2 SSD Enclosure

NVME to TB adapter (case USB): QNINE NVME Enclosure

Case USB to NVME adapter: ChenYang CY NVME NGFF M-Key Express Card to Type-E USB 3.1 Front Panel & USB 3.0 20Pin Socket VL805 Adapter for Motherboard

Thunderbolt 4 hub: Thunderbolt 4 5-in-1 Core Hub

[SorryBella]

6 hours ago, Alphabear1978 said:

Will be used to run games on 4k 120Hz monitor from a handheld and/or laptop using a RTX 3090 (watercooled).

And do you already have said laptop? For the cash investment you can just buy a proper eGPU enclosure or just buy a Z11 PC in the first place.

 

And Z11 aint small. at all. Theyre more comparable to the 4000D. 

 

[Alphabear1978]

9 hours ago, SorryBella said:

And do you already have said laptop? For the cash investment you can just buy a proper eGPU enclosure or just buy a Z11 PC in the first place.

 

And Z11 aint small. at all. Theyre more comparable to the 4000D. 

 

Uhm and why would I do that?  Yes I have the laptop and handheld already and I know the case is not small.  It's only purpose is the ability to house my water cooling components and and my atx power supply.  I know a water cooled RTX 3090 is overkill for an eGPU, might even hit the limits but it's what I have and have to work with.

Also why would I buy an eGPU, they are overpriced and hard to service when something breaks, let alone being able to upgrade parts.

This build with case but without Thunderbolt 4 hub cost me around $250, with the hub to make it a one cable build cost me $370.  Way cheaper and probably much better than any eGPU you can buy.

[SorryBella]

39 minutes ago, Alphabear1978 said:

Uhm and why would I do that?

If you weren't that passive aggressive about it I would've answered you like a normal polite being but I guess you going to play that: Internet is filled with stupid idiot thinking they're witty with this configuration when they don't even have a good PC to begin with.

 

And its not like those enclosure boards are reliable to begin with, they also have the same issue of eGPU dock on handshakes especially for pcie 4.0 link between card and laptop. but theoretically it should work on paper.

[Alphabear1978]

1 hour ago, SorryBella said:

And its not like those enclosure boards are reliable to begin with

Let me start to say that I was not trying to be passive aggressive, I was just sharing my build, I wasn't expected to be questioned about it.  Now to come back to your remark.  I agree, hence I plan to make my own that in case something breaks I can repair it.