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jacobsson said:

Hi Buddy!

So you're looking to get the EXP GDC V7 from here I assume?

The Yoybuy package includes

• EXP GDC V7 (also called ARES V7)
• DA-2 PSU
• 6-pin power split cable
• Expresscardcable / mPCIe data cable (depending on choice)

And that's all you need if you're planning on using the DA-2 as PSU.

The DA-2 should be sufficient for the GTX980, but I'd check the TDP carefully on benchmarking reviews first so that your brand of choice is staying within the 220W limit.

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c22 said:

OK I misread the NUC description, tbh mini PCI-e is so throttled it will not be worth buying a GTX 980 for. I can't predict whether it'll work properly out of the box either. On paper it should be compatible with an eGPU but you may or may not have to do some tweaking in order to get it to work. I simply can't know.

The Dell DA-2 should run the GTX 980 and 760, just don't use a highly overclocked version. You'll need some PCI-e power cables to connect from the adapter to the card.

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c22 said:

Yeah, it was working out the box for the most part. I had to reboot the system with card attached, hotplugging would not work for me. I think my laptop (X220) has very little problems with eGPU connections via the ExpressCard slot but other laptops may require Setup 1.30 or fiddling about.

Right now you'd want a laptop with a Thunderbolt port to take advantage of the larger PCI-e speeds, ExpressCard coming in second and mPCI-e being the least favourable I think.

I see the NUC mini pc comes with a PCI-e expansion slot, so you do not need a EXP GDC, what you probably need is a some kind of extension to the PCI-e slot so that you can attach the GPU outside of the box. Doing this you will probably be able to take full advantage of the PCI-e speeds the GPU can offer (x16 2.0/3.0). The only large problem is the underpowered processor, the i5-4250U which is a low power consumption CPU which will probably bottleneck some CPU-demanding (Crysis and Battlefield series) titles and some other recent games.

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c22 said:

Yeah, it was working out the box for the most part. I had to reboot the system with card attached, hotplugging would not work for me. I think my laptop (X220) has very little problems with eGPU connections via the ExpressCard slot but other laptops may require Setup 1.30 or fiddling about.

Right now you'd want a laptop with a Thunderbolt port to take advantage of the larger PCI-e speeds, ExpressCard coming in second and mPCI-e being the least favourable I think.

I see the NUC mini pc comes with a PCI-e expansion slot, so you do not need a EXP GDC, what you probably need is a some kind of extension to the PCI-e slot so that you can attach the GPU outside of the box. Doing this you will probably be able to take full advantage of the PCI-e speeds the GPU can offer (x16 2.0/3.0). The only large problem is the underpowered processor, the i5-4250U which is a low power consumption CPU which will probably bottleneck some CPU-demanding (Crysis and Battlefield series) titles and some other recent games.

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c22 said:

After several delays and having to change multiple etailers my MSI GTX 970 is finally here! First game I ran was EU4 of all things, I'm just excited to finally have a desktop video card after using overheating laptop GPUs. Downloading 3DMark now to benchmark, under no illusion that my i5 and x1.2 link is going to bottleneck the heck out of the card.

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