ozmartini

I have the 2013 Macbook Pro Retina with very similar specs and thunderbolt 1, and am planing on doing an eGPU setup like yours. However, is it possible at all to use the internal monitor? If it's not possible then I don't think I wanna follow through with this eGPU setup; that would simply be too impractical.

@ozmartini: eGPUs in Windows 8.1 are just working beautiful. No idea why you are getting stressed about some bat files....?!

Well I just have no idea what they are. I've never done any code or anything similar to that. In the guide I was looking at he says

"In notepad, create the file V:\config\pci.bat and paste the following into it. Note that this is the file that changes depending on your Macbook type. If you dont have a 2013 Macbook Air, a couple addresses might change."

Though this is a guide for Windows 7, not 8.

Hi everyone!

I found this forum today, and it looks really cool! I was looking around at potential solutions for playing high-graphics games like Star Citizen on my Macbook Pro (Early 2013) without needing to go for a whole new computer. I just had one quick question -- A lot of the solutions that I'm seeing use Thunderbolt 2, which runs at 20 Gbps. My macbook, sadly, was part of the last line to run Thunderbolt 1 at 10 Gbps.

If I wanted to make a setup using a Graphics card like the GTX 970, would using a TB1 connection significantly reduce the quality? Additionally, do products advertising use for TB2 work for computers running TB1?

Thanks!

I'm in the same exact boat as you, my friend. Ordered the 970, Akitio, and PSU and JUST realized my Macbook was thunderbolt 1. The performance is going to be (from the little research i've done) like between 80-85% of the GPU. Regardless, I'm still going to try doing it.

BUT I have a question for everybody else. What do I do to get it working?? Honestly I read several guides and this is the only one that makes sense to me : http://forum.techinferno.com/implementation-guides-apple/4271-2013-11-macbook-air-gtx570%404gbps-c-tbec2-pe4l-2-1b-win7-%5Bkloper%5D.html

However he said the pci.bat file is different for every laptop; he lost me at the last step. Once I get the parts I'm gonna actually try this though, can't try it without a gpu XD.

Hey man I'm trying to do the same exact thing; same model macbook with a gtx 970. Is there any guide for this model macbook to set up eGPU? This is gonna be my first eGPU setup. I ordered all the parts but I still really don't know what I'm supposed to do in terms of software.