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Well, almost a month after I preordered it, my Titan has arrived! The first thing I did obviously is test it with the Sonnet III-D. Like the 980 I had a few months ago, it did not boot up (i.e. black screen, pressing alt to get to the boot selection screen did nothing, etc.). I tested it with my Akitio chassis (by opening up the front of the enclosure) with a barrel plug that I made for the SEL. Ran Unigine Valley for an hour without crashing and only crashed when I overclocked it. Otherwise, very stable at stock speeds. Once I make custom PCI-e cables and an EPS-to-barrel plug, and maybe even do something about closing up the chassis by extending it, I will post a guide. But for now, here's this:

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The EVGA GTX 960 should be indeed fine as I am owning a Gigabyte GTX 960 OC which is by far the only model which doesn't fit into the Thunder2. Still the part of which is too much is really really short and measures only few mm. All the other models which fit into the Thunder2 by length are also thin or small enough. With the described Dell DA-2 mod I'll possibly try another GTX 960 together with the Dell PSU. This is still by far the most comfortable solution.

You have a NVidia dGPU and eGPU. Proceed to uninstall ALL existing NVidia drivers, run DDU to clear all NVidia entries from the registry, then install the latest NVidia desktop driver. Upon reboot if you have error 12 then proceed to perform compaction. The diags show you have sufficient 32-bit PCIe config space to host both. Firstly, ensure Chainloader->Test Run works prior to any PCIe compaction. Then proceed to do compaction testing the following configuration settings. This gives 16 (2*4*2) combinations to try. After each, select Chainloader->Test Run to see if you can successfully chainload the OS, error 12 gone and system stable. * endpoint = 3.87GB, 4GB * scope (selected when you do Run Compact) = eGPU, dGPU+eGPU, All except SATA+, ALL * closeunusedbridges = off, on * ignore = NONE

@Honsta: Why not getting a small GTX 970 if you want performance? Using only the internal 60mm fan of AKiTiO will definitely be NOT enough to cool you card! Imho: If you want to close the case, you need to modify it to provide some/better cooling. Also be aware that small ITX cards are too wide to fit into the AKiTiO! Good cards might be Zotac and Galay/KFA2 with their GTX 960/970 cards. The Galax/KFA2 card is 180mm "short": Here you can see the "width problem": Source: Computerbase.de Galax or KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 Gamer OC: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 Mini:

Yes, goalque is correct. There is a nasty streak of more and more of the newer Apple products mysteriously not allowing the displays to work. We will have an additional software engineer (a real one, not a phony like me) on this shortly so I expect some advances. We will soon be offering cards that can BREAK through the Apple block, for 1 screen at least but possibly more. (I have figured out 1 screen, having real guy on this should lead to more) If we find a simple fix in the drivers we will offer that here as well. But anyone trying with a TB2 Mac should look through that thread before buying the gear, until a solution is found. Most TB2 Macs will not be offering display output via eGPU, at least not with Nvidia cards. (CUDA is still possible, however) I plan to soon update the lead post with a list of which TB2 work for display output, and which stay black.