Malem Benign

I ordered EXP GDC BEAST from hero cloud on 2014.11.12 And got it on post office on 2014.12.05 here in Moscow, Russia.

To continue the story with eGPU and ATX PSU: I gave back to store Gigabyte GV-N650OC-4GI GTX 650 (not powerful enough), and bought Palit GTX 970 Jetstream. Tried to connect to bad Thermaltake TR2 RX 550W but using different lines - no chance. The old Inwin 300W shows some interesting things: 1. In 2d/Windows Desktop view it works ok. 2. In BF4 for example its fan starts to rotate ultra fast, and the PSU does some loud rattle and chirp/squeak noise, but works fine (for at least 5-10 minutes that I tested). 3. In Diablo 3 -same thing, maybe not so loud. 4. Furmark shuts the eGPU down in a second, like the bad Thermaltake. But there is one more interesting thing: when I used the line from eGPU as the second additional power line to supply GTX 970 - eGPU shuts down just on start of the games. But when I used both two additional lines direct from PSU to supply GTX 970 - it makes noise, its fan goes mad, but it works. Well after all, I've ordered the Chieftech 1250W to put the dot in that PSU story. Waiting it to come on Saturday. Looks like the 4-pin line used to supply eGPU/GPU primary needs is unsuitable to supply through to the additional GPU input in some situations. More tests coming. P.S. Well the framerate on GTX 970 in BF4 (all that I had time to test) is much more better than GTX 650 OC even on that slow PCIe 1.1 x16(?), I'll give some exact info on final post.

Another interesting thing with that eGPU hardware set: 1080p videos on Youtube under Chrome stutter and drop frames. Problem partially solved by desabling hardware acceleration in Chrome, but some little stutter and framedrop still happens. Under Opera or IE same thing like Chrome without hardware acceleration - some very little stutter, especially in windowed mode. Well with iGPU there is no stuttering or bad framedrops in any modes, with or without hardware acceleration, in different browsers. Video goes smooth. Besides, there are a lot of messages in the Internet about such problem with Chrome/Youtube/1080p, but they seems to be having trouble without eGPU sets. So there is some interesting bottleneck: slow bus or hardware/softare incompatibility bug, that showed up itself in that conditions.

I'm testing the old Inwin 300w PSU. Looks like it's ok yet. But when I begin Furmark test with dynamic camera and post-fx settings set, the PSU starts to make some noise like chirping condenser. Also my tests with different GPU shows, that PCIe 1.1 bottleneck is always in different places according to app. I'll write a complete story after some more tests.

That is unbelievable but the problem is in ATX PSU! Old Thermaltake 550 TR2 RX somehow failed to provide with appropriate power. The symptoms indicated to bad PSU, but I just couldn't believe how 550W PSU failed to supply 65W GPU... Well the problem resolved. Everybody who has similar problem - try another PSU.

Hello, Recently I've got my brand new EXP GDC BEAST for my SONY VPCF13Z1R(8GB RAM/WIN7) and Gigabyte GV-N650OC-4GI (with ATX 550). It works. Without any special tricks. But on some high graphics options, or when changing resolution in game, or when changing/loading new instance/mission it just turns power off, lights go dark, fan stops, laptop works a few moments and then restarts with iGPU or frezzes. Once it shuts down just on desktop without any special graphics apps were loaded. What could it be? Any ideas please? Thanks. A little history: This laptop has integrated GT425M, with PCIe 1.1 (but HWinfo shows somehow sometimes 2.0) So I haven't great expectations. I've tested this laptop with EXP GDC V6 with GTX770 and got low results. Now I got my own hardware. Also I tried friend's HD7850 with that set, but it goes to black screen with vertical lines after windows login. P.S. Furmark kicks to power off in 0,5 sec. Got no idea, is it bad hardware BEAST or a bad graphics card...