Tsrizchris

This looks really cool O:

Would it work well with a MBP running Thunderbolt 1?

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.

Let me know how it goes for you!

TB1 is fine and will work, yes! OF course there will be a reduced overall performance, but that depends on the game.

Do you have a 13" MB? I think Star Citizen is really performance "hungry".

I have a 15 inch MBP w/ Retina Display, Early 2013.

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!

Edit** Apparently it posted to the wrong section. Sorry!