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It's probably worth waiting for. Razer Core is pretty nice for a little more.(OK, a lot more)

Yep, Nvidia will provide drivers, just a "when" not an "if".

A lot will come down to how much the CPU is needed. The 15" machines can have 4 Core CPUs while the 13" nTB 2016 is always 2 Core O. the plus side, the nTB may be the only one that doesn't need a DSDT edit to enable Windows eGPU of the 2016 models.

You are either powering wrong or your Akitio is bad.

The DA-2 requires 2 wires shorted to turn on. Easy way to tell is green LED lighting up on it? If green LED is dark, it isn't on. "plugging it to socket" isn't a full answer.

I can tell you for a fact that Sonnet is more stable than Thunder 2. You will get more reliable results too.

Many, many folks have been fooled by presence of ON/OFF rocker on PSU thinking they have it "on" Thank you for providing additional details. I don't have link handy but there was a cheap ($20?) switch that went on the whole PSU connector and had a little switch to connect those 2 pins. I haven 't used a paperclip in some time. When PSU offers lights I turn them on so I know with a glance that it is running. You may need to use the Set_OS EFI trick or a DSDT, but let us know how testing timing changes works

Try removing board first and see if that solves. You have all 14 pins on the 980Ti connected to the PSU, yes?

Casey-S, hopefully you saw my note about disabling m mirroring or Optimus. It cause a MAJOR performance hit when running. (If same thing is on both screens, it's running) I am hopeful that the AKitio Node is going to change the game for eGPU.

Sounds like power issue. How is 400W PSU triggered on?

ditch the riser, bend the case or remove one internal boards and mount on something else How are you triggering the PSU?

Just turning on switch on the PSU doesn't turn on the PSU. either need a paper clip or PLEX switch YOU RUN GREAT RISK OF DAMAGING THINGS BY NOT DOING RESEARCH

How are you triggering the external PSU?

1. How are you triggering PSU to turn on? (paperclip, a switch?) 2. Fans turning off is a GOOD sign on dual fan Maxwell cards. Does this when driver is loaded and it isn't doing much. 3. You will likely find greater success by plugging in TB port later in boot, maybe after spinning wheel start in Windows

Most Nvidia cards have hard limit of 4 displays. (regardless of how many ports) Might be able to use MBP to do 5th

Did you disable csrutil?

I can only speak with 100% certainty for Non-Touchbar 2016 MBP as that is what I have. Right now you can use TB3 enclosure if you run the script posted at Netkas and elsewhere. In the TB3 enclosure you can use Kepler GPUs with little trouble in OS X. You can also use TB2 enclosure (with out TB3 script) if you have a TB3 to TB2 adapter, but still only Kepler cards work OOTB. If you use a cMP Mac EFI flashed Kepler card it will likely be limited to PCIE 2.0. A PC version should run at PCIE 3.0 in a TB3 enclosure. The same is possibly true for the other 2016 MBP with touchbar, but I can't say for certain.

This is a curious position for you to take. For 18 months you have promotoed a script that does NOTHING BUT modify copyrighted Apple files. (i.e., you didn't write a kext or a driver) It literally makes modified copy of Apple System Files and replaces the real Apple ones. Same deal here. And it lets all the TB3 stuff that doesn't work, "just work". I can confirm that the USB3 on the back of my Razer Core fired up as soon as I applied the hack. I was also able to use a GTX780 6GB with full eGPU support in OS X and Windows once I ran the hack. A "win-win"

Try disabling and then enabling the bridges above the 980Ti. If that doesn't do it, it's DSDT edit time. The good news is that at least one person has made DSDT work on 15", so it can be done. What's going to be interesting is how next few weeks play out for Bison Box 3. They've made a great deal of promises for their $650 product that now appear very hard to keep. And if they're using the Akitio internals again, it will likely show up as such in System Profiler. Going to be hard to explain why their's is $650 when Akitio sells an equally flawed product for $300 that includes power supply. (which also won't work well) Right now VERY FEW cards work over TB3 in OS X. Hopefully they've sold lots of them, the flood of chargebacks will teach them a rather painful lesson. The issues with TB3 will doubtlessly get figured out. But not in next 2 weeks. And not by people who had to crib from goalque's cribbed work.(collection of hacks found here and elsewhere) Someone needs to find the ACTUAL fix first before people can start looking over other's shoulder to 'discover' it into a script. But for now, there has been pretty good luck getting current Nvidia cards working on TB3 with 2016 MBP of all 3 models. The method I outlined for Non-Touch bar is easiest, but DSDT has been shown to work. AMD cards are a little trickier but I have no doubt they will be figured out shortly. The hack found by kid2010 at Netkas that enables TB3 is first step for OS X. But more are needed. Apple isn't going to make it easy. OSX is a whole other can'o'worms. Apple has erected more than one barrier.

Hey, I know there has been some angst about the future of this project. As one of the co-authors of the work this was based on (released a day or two prior, coincidentally) I can assure the entire eGPU community that there are no secret code thingies needed that goalie is going to deprive you of by not updating this. In fact, all this added to prior publicly available knowledge was the one little trick Netkas & I brought to the world. And if this script stops working, I'll tell you how to do it. So, you'll never have to worry about this old hack breaking, easy enough to write a new one, especially if you knew how it worked in the first place. Hell, I'll tell you now. Go here; /System/Library/Extensions/AppleGraphicsControl.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy.kext/Contents Open the info.plist in X-Code or a text editor Under "IOKitPersonalities" open AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy then the ConfigMap You will see a list of Mac Board ids And here is the $64,000 secret that goalie discovered less than 48 hours after it's release in a paid app...your Mac had better be on that list, and it had better have "none" after it. (Have to replace a "Config 1" or "Config 2" with "none") That simple. Don't know how to tell if your Mac is on the list? Run this in terminal ioreg -l | grep board-id This will give you board id of your Mac. If it isn't on the config map, replace one of the other board ids with yours. (I always just use top one) If it's on the map, but has "Config 1" or "Config 2" after it, change those to "none". That simple. Took a LOT of work to figure out, but you'll agree it:s SO MUCH EASIER to just copy & paste once someone else figures it out. (as eiqlaog discovered) That is ALL this script has done for 18 or so months since he released it. That and mod the files we were all modding anyway. (adding iopci tunnel compatible) So, as was pointed out to me some time ago, you can't lay claim to Apple system file mods. So anyone who wants to continue 9.8 public Github, I'll be happy to tell you how. (I just did) No secret sauce, just publicly available knowledge and that crucial hack discovered by Netkas.

Guessing we've spoken on Netkas board under different names. I've detailed a method over there for Non TB version but can post here too if it would help No DSDT or "Setup 1.3 or 2.0" or whatever needed. Pretty easy

RB How did you avoid Error 12 with TB MacBook 2016. I found it pretty simple with Non-Emoji bar version but I think folks with 15" have all been using DSDT hack to do it.

In you rphoto the Optimus is running the eGPU output back down the TB3 cable to run internal display. Hopefully you disabled this before running benchmarks.

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maybe you should tell netter who actually figured the magic out