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Sorry - I copyed of the link you showed me, IT IS 8.1 Yes it's showing up in system information in OSX. Just tried what you told. plugged in power supply Moved the TB to the other port. Tried to attach a DVI cable. I still get no signal to either macbook or screen. I notice that my GPU fan is spinning very loudly, as they would do if you're in bios and had not booted yet.

Checked - and should work fine. Tried: My system just boots to a black screen / my system hangs or BSODs while booting up to Win7 Poweroff your eGPU. Boot Win7. Standby (not hibernate) your system, poweron your eGPU, resume your system. However did nothing, can't see the device in device manager. yes - I've not recieved my da-2 yet, so I'm using a cx430m psu (Molex to dc barrel + paper clip trick Green/black) . Here's a pic of the setup.http://puu.sh/i0btV/416458689d.jpg

Hi W4vz - Is there a chance you could give me a hint why my setup boots to black screen in win 8.1 bootcamp? I've made the dc barrel to molex mod, powered the GPU via the same psu. However still I get a black screen after booting to to windows.

I'm doing that now, even with a gtx 660ti , dc barrel power mod. Still black screen on boot - on both screen and macbook

I will reply back sunday - going to bed now, and wedding tomorrow

I received my Akitio, and I had a gt430 lying around, which I'm trying to run of the stock psu. Currently I've not had any luck booting windows 8.1 up with screen on the gt430 or the macbook. Any advice so far ?

Sweet - Less I have to destroy! haha!

Makes more sence ! What about the pcb mod ?

Is it still required to solder cable between the mainboards and use the tape to disable some pins ? Or can you just use a DC barrel ?

Yeah exactly - one big 120 mm hole in the side would be needed, with increased airflow in the back

A possibly new graphics card for the Akitio ? The AMD Saphire R9 285 ITX! Check out the review here! I like that the blower design, front and back, not out to the sides. And the way the 8pin molex is positioned. However I am afraid that it might go to the limits of height ?

A high amount of those riser being sold on ebay, are of such a poor quality that it can effect if it will boot or not, and some might be soldered wrongly or just bad. ( So I've been told ) A simple DC barrel does the trick much cheaper.

You're an angry little fella' aren't you ? I just assumed if one had this big hardware-porn collection, one would automatically share the images with us Now temper down - take a cold shower!

Just to be "THAT kind of an asshole" Pic or it didn't happen

I see we have different views on the topic - I travel a lot, and often live for short periods (1 month or so ) on different hospitals, for me eGPU compact enough to keep in the akitio case is the perfect solution, as it will fit perfect in a laptop bag. But If you just want a dock when you come home every day, they will it definitely fit your needs.

Looks to fit well - however IMHO it Kinda looses it's purpose, as for the money spent, you could build a gamer pc in that size.

Haha Well - better safe than sorry All cables will be sleeved as well

Exactly - you would expect that a larger TDP footprint would require larger cooler and case. On another note! My project has started out by soldering some heavy duty cable for the 12v rail. http://puu.sh/hUqoe/7aedbb624f.jpg http://puu.sh/hUqqB/ad9b462e66.jpg I will start a building thread as soon as all the parts are here.

Just bare in mind that the KFA2/Galaxy GTX 960 is longer than the 970 and MIGHT not fit! Source:GTX 960: As you can see, the Gtx 960 is for some reason a tad larger than the 970.

Check out the bandwidth performance hit when trying different PCIe speeds with a 7970 from anadtech.

You can use the DA-2, just make sure that you have some soldering skills, as you will have to add a DC barrel to the main-power source of the akitio of the DA-2. You cannot you the original power adapter ( or it would not be wise to do so, due to ground loop ), so get all the power from the same source. Do as I'm planning to do, solder a DC barrel on the 12v rail.

The tb2 will run at 16gbps due to the way pci-e is built - which is equivalent to PCIe 2 x4 (or PCIe 3 x2) = 2GB/s , TB1 would be theoretical half that speed. Check out anadtech's article about the PCI-e impact on the bandwidth. As you can see - It seems like the bandwidth needed for something of the scale of a HD7970 requires at least 16Gbps, and if you decrease that by using TB1 you would theoretical see a way higher deduction in FPS. Bare in mind - this is just the results for these games, other games showed minimum significance, but lets assume worst case scenario.

Hi CD8 - I'm faily new here aswell, but I can tell you what I've been told so far. Consider using the case, a DC barrel, a 6pin molex to dual 6 pin molex and a DA-2 dell charger instead. Check how I'm planning to do. http://forum.techinferno.com/enclosures-adapters/9426-220w-dell-da-2-ac-adapter-discussion-5.html#post133386 If you use the DC-barrel - you don't need the pci-e riser, and you can use the case. I know that the Galaxy 960 and 970 will fit inside the case, and instead you could drill some airholes. I've bought a Atikio (Hopefully receiving it tomorrow) and I will be using a MBPr 13" 2014 with bootcamp win 8.1. But consider if your CPU will become a bottleneck towards your gtx960, and maybe a gtx 750ti might fit it more realistically ? EDIT ! Haha you beat me Dschijn

Figured i would use some 2.5mm cable rated to 12v 30 A. I want to do this to extend, but also to get an outlet for dc barrel, and that way getting an even distribution of the load to the dc barrel in the 6pin molex, (instead of ect. the main load being on pin 1 and 4). If you know what i mean yeah.. I made a shitty drawing of my idea.

Yes I know - Not a complete moron But IF I'm allowed to combine the 3 yellow and by that extend the length of the splitter ( and the same for the black ).