Hey everyone,
Not sure people will care or not, but I posted a while ago about my setup in a semi portable enclosure with a GTX460. Well things have changed, I have taken out and put the egpu in a drawer on my desk, open while in use, etc. The biggest change though, I am using Linux exclusively!
My System
Lenovo x220
i5 2540m
8gb ram
256GB msata SSD
320 HDD
GTX660 egpu
Xubuntu 15.04
nvidia 346.59
This is plug and play for me! Works with external monitor as well as internal! Every game I have tested works great, or better than windows in some cases. Cities: Skylines for instance would crash in windows using an external screen, but not the internal. go figure. On linux, it actually runs faster, and no crashes on either screen. If anyone is interested in some benchmarks, I can try when I have some time.
One minor caviot. As far as I know, I can only use external screens plugged into the egpu, OR the internal screen only, at least while the egpu is plugged in that is. I have to disable whatever screen I dont want to play games on. I do this manually at first, but Linux has done a pretty good job remembering my settings, so I know my xorg.conf file isn't being re-written every time. Anyways, was just really excited, and if you guys have questions, feel free to ask.
