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Where do the 6-Pin PCIe wires go to? Do they end up in the barrel plug?

1 hour ago, Lossy said:

is your 1070 working fine on OS X?

No OSX drivers yet!

Switched to a PC

Just for performance reasons. Nothing wrong with the eGPU.

Yeah looks good what he is using.

Only if you can manage to disable the 650m and make the Intel GPU work.

Not sure if anyone has achieved that. Try and find builds with a 650/750m and maybe one of them wrote it as a guide.

That looks great! How does the warm air exhaust?

Why getting 2x40mm fans?

8 hours ago, zakrzewskim said:

OK. I will try to persuade Rominator to share Windows method as well.

Not going to happen :/

You can only use a 6-Pin PCIe to directly connect to the DA-2. A 8-Pin needs some changes or otherwise one the ground Pins will have a direct connecting to 12V.

Worked for me for almost a year without problems.

No problem!

source: http://www.kitguru.net/components/power-supplies/ironlaw/how-computer-power-supplies-work-kitguru-guide/7/

19 hours ago, smohkie said:

Thank you! So - follow up - could I buy two Akitios, two gpus, and use one, bigger PSU to power everything? 

 

Yes! Will work for sure. With a bigger case you can also mount both cards.

Careful with the bend PCIe plug, better isolate them a bit more.

57 minutes ago, JohnyB33 said:

 Pretty small and cheap case i think is good for an e-gpu. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811353094 

You call that small? ^^

Seems like the mainboard in your MacBook is not supported

15 hours ago, Clarkent said:

Everyday I'm checking this ... Look at my previous post and except a short review by Dave Lee there is nothing relevant

Ok, but there are some reviews/test already only

http://barefeats.com/razer_core.html

2 hours ago, Clarkent said:

Why there is no Razer Core review ?  It's available for a while ... I don't get it

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=razer+core&page=&utm_source=opensearch

Yeah, not the best way. Better power the AKiTiO with the RM550x aswell.

Wow awesome! Great work @goalque!

Cool. I think you are the first with a GTX 1080.

6/8-Pin can only be used as an indicator. Mostly the cards are limited in their BIOS to use much less power, than it would be possible with the 6/8-Pin plugs.

Also, the card can draw 75W through the PCIe slot!

I really wouldn't consider USB as an option. Better wait for TB3 MacBooks.

That is normal for MacBooks.

Try to lift your MacBook a bit and give it some "breathing air" from underneath. Already lifting it 1cm from the desk will help. Lifting the back more than the front will help warm air to rise on the bottom to the back.

worked fine on my i7-4870HQ

@eGPUfan unfortunately that is normal. Especially GTA V has a high CPU load.

Options:

- fans at 100%

- limit CPUs clock speed to sth like 3GHz

- lower CPUs voltage by -50mV

Try Intel XTU tool.