tyrol_dude

for eu-citizen, who are interessted in the box: in this shop in germany is the box available until end of september for really fair € 238,-:

AKiTiO Thunder2 PCIe Box T2PC-TIA-AKTU

they have a warning there: nicht geeignet für Grafikkarten = not to use with graphicboards *hehe*

Base on my testing, continuos gaming both of the option gives you some kernel panic, maybe every after 3 couple of steam games. so basically, it is not yet a 100% stable.

to beginn with, i don´t need gaming issues under osx, but it would be nice to speed up photoshop, (maybe a future iteration of lightroom with gpu-support), cinema4d and finalcut. but i also like, to have it to work under win7 on the mini. then i could discharge my gaming-dose . accordingly to ms-Dos, we call win-pc´s snidely as a `Dose´ in german. `dose´ itself, means the english can.

may, i missunderstand it.

but isn´t it an advantage to run the eGpu by a riser, since you only need to power-on one power-supply, instead of two with the akitio-psu?

Using a PCI-e RISER with Molex

• PSU power off, Mac Mini off.
  
• My SWEX is always turned-on
  
• Attach the Molex riser to Akitio then Attach your GPU to riser. Connect a cable from your PSU to the molex adapter
  
  • WARNING do not connect the AkiTio's power adapter.
    

  [*]Connect the Thunderbolt Cable from AkiTio to your Mac Mini

  [*]Connect your HDMI or DVI from GPU to your Monitor

  [*]Power on PSU

  [*]Power on Mac Mini

  [*]You should be able to see your GPU Mac Mini's System Information

  [*]I was able to test this setup with dual monitor with my Apple Thunderbolt Display

these are the genuine mac mini i7 values. that´s a huge difference

danke you´ve allready sold yours?

did i understand this correct? you don´t need the akitio-psu?

@gothic80 where did you buy your akitio-box? i´m from austria and also interessted to buy one.

@all: is it possible to run this box on a mac mini 2012, because i read, you have to install windows in efi-mode. does this mini support this? is it also possible to drive it under a bootcamp-install. does it work properly under osx 10.9?

i´ve a msi 7850 lying around, but probably don´t work under osx?. but i want to buy a msi gtx760. or do you have any other suggestions?

since thunderbolt 1 has "only" 20gb/sek, what is the real-world speed of pci-express in a normal pc system?

@entzoe: i also own a mac mini 2012. can you please tell me about your setup? i also like to do an egpu-setup for it, but i don´t like the way over the expresscard-adapter. do you also have windows-drivers?

@dernils

did you allready find an egpu-solution for your mac? i just bought a mac mini and want to upgrade it for 3d stuff and gaming, booth in osx and windows. but i don´t like the solution with sonnet-express and better like even that one with the akitio or with the thundertek.