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Dear Dschijn, following your guide I purchased all your suggested hardware (Akitio, Chieftec case, PCI 16x riser, a gtx 970 however from Zotac as I did not have the budget for the EVGA FTW+ etc.). As mentioned in an earlier post, I am planning to run the egpu und an Asus G750 Notebook with thunderbolt 1 (although I know that you told me that it might have not enough bandwidth but still I want to try to run Fifa 15 on my TV in 4k - if it will work). The Asus G750 has a dgpu (gtx 870m) and a intel optimus igpu. I successfully installed the driver for the gtx 970 (it is recognized in the hardware manager as geforce gtx 970 along with the igpu and the dgpu => all three graphic cards are indicated to work correctly in the device manager). However, when I try to run the egpu with Asus => Thunderbolt Cable => Akitiko/Geforce gtx970 =>HDMI Cable => TV the TV will not receive any signal. When I directly plug in the cable on the HDMI Port of the Asus Notebook the TV will immediately recognize the signal. I already deactivated the dgpu (gtx870m) in the device manager but this did not lead to any success with respect to the egpu output via the HDMI cable. Do I have to deactive the igpu as well (I am not planning to use the internal display of the asus as long as I am connected to the TV) or do I have to change something in the nvdia settings? I am really confused as the egpu is correctly indicated in the device manager.... Finally a further question concerning the chieftec case: How do you switch on the egpu system as the power button of the PSU cannot directly be reached when everything is setup in the case? I know that my questions my appear ridiculous to you but this is really my first egpu system I am trying to build up. If it will not work on the asus gaming notebook I am planning to switch to the iMac Retina which has Thunderbolt II but no intel optimus.... Could you help me with my questions raised above?

sorry - it seems that I have posted my message in the wrong thread.... Although I found several answers to my following questions I am still not sure what would be the best solution for an e-GPU system concerning my "technical environment": The reason why I am planing to setup a e-GPU system is that I a would love to play games (some less power consuming games such as Fifa 2015 but also more power consuming games such as Rome Total War II) on my 4K LG 55 UHD TV. This TV only supports HDMI 2.0 input and I would love to buy a Geforce GTX 960, GTX 970 or a GTX 980to play Fifa 2015 in 4k resolution on my TV via the HDMI 2.0 output at 60Hz. Concerning my Hardware, I have several options. First of all I have an iMac 27 5K late 2014 with an AMD Radeon R9 M295X however without an integrated intel graphic (I am still planning to install Bootcamp). As this system has Thunderbolt 2 I was expecting that the iMacwould be the best option for my e-GPU system. Moreover I have an Asus ROG G750JS gaming notebook with an geforce gtx 870m, integrated intel graphics but only Thunderbolt 1. Actually I use the Asus Rog as my gaming PC but as it only has TB1 I was expecting that the bandwidth would be to limited to run the e-GPU (e.g, with an GTX-970) in 4K via HDMI 2.0. So I was wondering whether a) whether the e-GPU system with an gtx 970 or the gtx 960 allows to use the HDMI 2.0 output to play fifa 15 in 4kon my TV (and maybe even other games in 4k) whether the Thunderbolt 1 output of my Asus notebook would have enough bandwidth to play games in 4k on my TV c) whether the internal Monitor of my iMac can be used as Target Display when using the e-GPU (I guess no because of the missing intel graphics) Hope you guys can help me any further with these three questions... Thank you!!

Although I found several answers to my following questions I am still not sure what would be the best solution for an e-GPU system concerning my "technical environment": The reason why I am planing to setup a e-GPU system is that I a would love to play games (some less power consuming games such as Fifa 2015 but also more power consuming games such as Rome Total War II) on my 4K LG 55 UHD TV. This TV only supports HDMI 2.0 input and I would love to buy a Geforce GTX 960, GTX 970 or a GTX 980 to play Fifa 2015 in 4k resolution on my TV via the HDMI 2.0 output at 60Hz. Concerning my Hardware, I have several options. First of all I have an iMac 27 5K late 2014 with an AMD Radeon R9 M295X however without an integrated intel graphic (I am still planning to install Bootcamp). As this system has Thunderbolt 2 I was expecting that the iMac would be the best option for my e-GPU system. Moreover I have an Asus ROG G750JS gaming notebook with an geforce gtx 870m, integrated intel graphics but only Thunderbolt 1. Actually I use the Asus Rog as my gaming PC but as it only has TB1 I was expecting that the bandwidth would be to limited to run the e-GPU (e.g, with an GTX-970) in 4K via HDMI 2.0. So I was wondering whether a) whether the e-GPU system with an gtx 970 or the gtx 960 allows to use the HDMI 2.0 output to play fifa 15 in 4k on my TV (and maybe even other games in 4k) whether the Thunderbolt 1 output of my Asus notebook would have enough bandwidth to play games in 4k on my TV c) whether the internal Monitor of my iMac can be used as Target Display when using the e-GPU (I guess no because of the missing intel graphics) Hope you guys can help me any further with these three questions... Thank you!!