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1 hour ago, ssamydla said:

If you use Quadro cards, Install Quadro Drivers.

It will 'unlock' Graphic API & Compute API on Quadro Cards.

Download Quadro Mobile drivers from Nvidia Site or from your card's manufacturer site.

Uninstal your existing GTX driver with DDU. Disable Windows Hardware Autoupdate Driver.

Defer upgrades Win 10 Windows Update, or simply disconnect internet connection.

Nv Quadro chip

Quadro Series: Fermi

Quadro K Series: Kepler

Quadro M Series: Maxwell

Sorry i havent test Akitio T2 with Quadro cards. I only use EXP GDC Beast.

I use Dell 220W for Quadro 4000 with 6 pin auxiliary power cable direct from eGPU.

And i use ATX 500W PSU for Quadro 6000, 6pin & 6+2pin from PSU.

With this config i don't have Power issues.

Hope this helps

Thanks for your answer ssamydla,

Understood about the power but about the driver support I "forgot" to mention the most important thing about the driver .... that I always use Mac OS (precisely El Capitan 10.11.6), so my doubt is about driver support for Quadro is for MacOs Operating System.

Hello everyone,

Thanks for a lot threads located here in the forum I was able to have 100% Stable eGPU setup:

Macbook Pro Retina 15 Mid 2015 Intel Iris Pro

Akitio Thunder2

450W Corsair PSU 100% Modular

EVGA GTX 980Ti SC+ ACX 2.0

Honestly It's working awesome but now I have one question:

I'm thinking to update to Quadro Graphic Card , specificaly talking it will be Quadro K4200 card so my questions are:

1)Nvidia Web Drivers provide support for Quadro k4200? As far as I know Quadro K4200 is based on Kepler chip, so I want to "think" its compatible. Couldn't find any information over internet (except Quadro K5000 Mac edition)

2)Currently I'm using 60W brick for Akitio in order to power my GPU GTX 980Ti but thanks to 2 x 8pins connectors its working stable. Now  the "problem" with Quadro Cards, they are really power efficient so we can encounter power issues. My question is if I buy 2.5mmx5.5mm plug power adapter rated 12V/10A to deliver in total up to 120W, will i "break" the 25W pcie limitation?Or yes or yes I must to do hardmod in order to overpass the power limitation (read in some topics in the forum)?

Thanks in advance for information!

Thanks for so fast replay,

So basically I have 2 choices:

1)KEEP Praying about Quartz Extreme acceleration for Nvidia

2)Swap the card to AMD

So far I've read in the forum the best compatible device for R9 AMD is NetStor NA211TB. Wouldn't it work with Akitio2 BOX?

Thank you for the information!

I 'd like to inform that since the latest web driver Update 346.03.03f02 Now finally UI lag is disappeared and all working smooth like before in Yosemite. It seems Nvidia trying to do their best in order to support new OS X API

The -a mode is meant primarily for multi-slot enclosures, -m just switches back to original manual mode.

The v0.9.7 is not compatible with 750M equipped MBP, but I guess you’re using v0.9.6 since Unigine benchmark works. UI sluggishness that you observed, may be due to missing Quartz Extreme acceleration. The core OS X windowing system (Core Animation & Core Graphics) - if not yet fully implemented - will be built natively on top of Metal on OS X 10.11, resulting in up to 50% faster rendering performance as mentioned in WWDC 2015. This technology is not just for game developers, it’s for all kind of OS X apps in the future. For instance, Adobe has already demonstrated After Effects and Illustrator on Metal. Amazing improvements.

It’s now clear that Apple has chosen AMD as their partner. Earlier this year I saw at Khronos.org that AMD’s core software team looked for software engineers for both kernel level and OpenCL development on OS X. We don’t know how well Nvidia can support Metal on OS X if Quartz Extreme, which uses OpenGL, is going to be replaced with thin Metal layer. But I’ll continue supporting both the AMD and Nvidia the best I can, and as long as I find time. Thus far, only AMD TB3 eGPUs have been demoed on Windows platform, not officially a single word about OS X or Nvidia eGPUs from Intel.

Thanks for so fast replay,

So basically I have 2 choices:

1)KEEP Praying about Quartz Extreme acceleration for Nvidia

2)Swap the card to AMD

So far I've read in the forum the best compatible device for R9 AMD is NetStor NA211TB. Wouldn't it work with Akitio2 BOX?

Thank you for the information!

First at all I want really to thank you goalque for the automatic script.

Before I was using Yosemite 10.10.5 and it was working absolutely fine.

Now after updating to Capitan 10.11 release version I got one little problem with it: All windows animations in Finder produce too much lag. It like no acceleration when I try to minimize the windows (alladin effect for example) or to restore.

However I have tested Unigine benchmarks and the performance has increased vs Yosemite. Also another accelerated applications in Full Window Mode work fine.

What I've done so far:

1)Complete uninstall script via -uninstall command and full wipe nvidia drivers via nvidia uninstaller and reinstallation step by step.

2)Fresh install of operating system 10.11 El capitan

My configuration:

Macbook Pro 15 Retina Late 2013 with Nvidia 750M

Akitio2 BOX

GTX970 Gigabyte

Power Supply Corsair RM450

Monitor DELL UP2715K

I hope I've explained myself correctly,

Should I try install it in -m mode?

Thank you.