External gpu thunderbolt

[FredrikEmil]

Hello, does anyone know of any good thunderbolt external gpus? thinking about dropping my tower all together as gaming has been slowing down lately, just keeping the gpu in a tunderbolt dock of some sorts to game on with a windows boot on my macbook pro 13" as the cpu is not to bad honestly, it just needs a gpu, so, question is, does this exist? and how well does it work, price etc 

[Dschijn]

Yes!

Please read my guide: http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/10061-basic-egpu-hardware-guide-macs.html

Additonal informations here: http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/

[FredrikEmil]

Yes!

Please read my guide: http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/10061-basic-egpu-hardware-guide-macs.html

Additonal informations here: http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/

That is sick! How much did you spend on it? I really wanna get something like this

[Dschijn]

For my build with a mini GTX970 inside the AKiTiO I would estimate 600€.

You can calculate:

- AKiTiO = 240€

- PSU = 20-30€

- GTX970 = 320€

- Screws, cable,... = 20€

 

For faster GPUs you will need a better PSU and by that that price will increase. So you can calculate it by yourself with the AKiTiO as the foundation.

 

Here is my finished build running 3dMark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOPKd-YBX_s

[FredrikEmil]

For my build with a mini GTX970 inside the AKiTiO I would estimate 600€.

You can calculate:

- AKiTiO = 240€

- PSU = 20-30€

- GTX970 = 320€

- Screws, cable,... = 20€

 

For faster GPUs you will need a better PSU and by that that price will increase. So you can calculate it by yourself with the AKiTiO as the foundation.

 

Here is my finished build running 3dMark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOPKd-YBX_s

I already have a gpu and a psu, so I guess id only need the dock and some cables then

[Dschijn]

Would you mind sharing what parts exactly you have?

[FredrikEmil]

Would you mind sharing what parts exactly you have?

Yeah no problem I have a corsair 500 watt psu, the modular kind, cant remember the name exactly, and a gigabyte 760 4gb oc edition

[Dschijn]

Ok, that should work
Keep in mind that you will have to apply the paper clip trick to make the PSU start (or buy an adapter).

Since the Gigabyte cards are extremely long, you will have to bend open the inner cage and you will not be able to close the case!

You should also make a molex to barrel plug to power the AKiTiO with the Corsair PSU!

[FredrikEmil]

Ok, that should work

Keep in mind that you will have to apply the paper clip trick to make the PSU start (or buy an adapter).

Since the Gigabyte cards are extremely long, you will have to bend open the inner cage and you will not be able to close the case!

You should also make a molex to barrel plug to power the AKiTiO with the Corsair PSU!

Oh I see, maybe I'll have to get the dremel out and do some work on a custom case then, might aswell give it a little personality sounds like this is gonna be great project for me in the near future