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Seems like Gigabyte licenced the Silverstone eGPU that was shown some time ago. Looks very familiar http://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/news/hardware/grafikkarten/39341-gigabyte-zeigt-externe-gpu-loesung-und-stellt-thunderbolt-3-in-den-fokus.html

Interesting to see that it is still not just plug and play.

Are you using an external monitor?

Does your MB have a dGPU? Optimus didn't work in Windows 7, right?

Ok, I asked because I was limited to 60fps when using the internal display of my MacBook in the past.

Is that value close to the refresh rate of your display? Like 49-50Hz?

Li-Heat makes very good riser!

@gharimanto Does this help? https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/6198-2013-13-macbook-pro-gtx97016gbps-tb2-akitio-thunder2-win81osx1010-dschijn/

The Razer Core starts to ship to the first people today. Can't wait to see the first reviews.

1280 x 1024? Maybe a GTX960 or 970?

The CPU is just fine! It's only that TB1 will limit you a bit, but not that much to worry.

Yeah that is common. Try and disable the MacBooks screen when using the eGPU: https://github.com/Eun/DisableMonitor

Sorry, no idea how/if Optimus is working on Macs with a dGPU.

Ok, interessting. Thanks. Never seen such a board from ASUS.

You would have to disable the GT 750m and let the display beeing powered by the Intel GPU.

Wow ok... would you mind taking some pictures?

The article is about a PCIe card for PCIe to give them TB ports.

Can you link the article? I have never seen such a board.

Yeah, it should work, in Windows!

Yeah, it should work, in Windows!

Using the internal monitor = optimus Using a TB display on the TB port = optimus Both will result in lower performance!

I hope this picture helps. It's a cable I made just recently. For that I cut of the housing of the plug to the level where the little handle on the plug is connected to the plug. The cables are just bend and covered with isolation tape:

I was looking for those cables in europe as well... only found them in the US too. I ordered them from the US, but now I already made some adapter for people and simply saw off a bit from a regular PCIe plug. Used a "Dremel" for that.

Great benchmarks! I guess you are using an external monitor? A shorter card and a Dell DA-2 could make the eGPU much smaller.

Than it is just limited to your budget