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Actually, I'm running a 2011 MBP 17" that just went through the free logic board replacement for dGPU issues, after the dGPU just died while playing D3.
I also upgraded it, current config is i7-2760QM, 16GB DDR3 1600MHz, 512GB Samsung SSD, ATI 6770M dGPU.Compared to my work rMBP 15" mid 2014 which is quite similar in config (i7-4xxxHQ, 16GB Apple DDR3, 512GB Apple SSD, GTX 750M dGPU) in day to day use (as a developer) I feel no noticeable difference.
I started pondering now either getting an eGPU setup with AKITIO and GTX 970 or a full desktop PC, I was afraid that TB1 and already having a dGPU will make things not worth it, but from your post I see it is totally doable.So thanks for that.
2011 17" MBP HD6770M + GTX780Ti@10Gbps-TB1 (AKiTiO Thunder2) + OSX10.9 [SmutjeHannes
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That is very nice to hear, guess windows 10 support and drivers are way better because of the official support for eGPUs on TB3.
I am considering getting the Razer enclosure because of TB3 (yes, I know I have TB1 currently, but that means I could use it with a different, newer laptop aswell) and the fact that it can hold a big GPU and has the built in PSU.
About RAM and SSD, I did those upgrades a while ago. They were pretty straight forward to do, but the SSD especially speed it up a lot. Originally it had 4GB RAM and 750 HDD.