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  1. I think I followed these instructions. Basically tape the power connections between the two boards and then add these jumpers: I did not add in the capacitors that are mentioned.
  2. FYI: I'm running a Zotac 1060 with windows 10 (rMBP 2012), and no problems with instability. I did do the power stability mods to my Akitio box way back -- before that I was having instability problems with previous cards unless they were very low power (like a K600) I do have sporadic crashes in windows (maybe once a week?), but I believe its no more frequent than before I switched to the eGPU setup.
  3. It will fit in the box without bending, though getting the cover on and the PCIE cable attached would be challenging. Fortunately I don't care about look and run mine with the cover off. The 1060 is a big, big improvement over the 960 I was previously using in it. Pretty quiet even under load.
  4. UPDATE: After more screwing around, I did manage to get Win 10 running in EFI mode. Keys bits: - Used Microsoft's media creation tool to make a bootable USB installer so I could fresh install (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) - Installed EFI mode - I didn't use bootcamp assistant except to download drivers. Used disk utility to split the SSD, booted into the installer in EFI mode, nuked the extra partitions, and told windows to install in the free space. - Installed bootcamp drivers & NVidia drivers. Disabled HD 4000 (not sure if this helps or not) - At this point I get the typical error 12 issue - so I used the DSDT method to resolve. Seems more robust than what I was doing with DIY eGPU in windows 7, and doesn't require any interaction during the boot. After that, everything seemed to work fine! My boot does seem a bit slow - the login screen seems to have a bit of image corruption at first, though as soon as I start typing it clears out. Based on notification messages I saw, seems like the NVidia driver might get be crashing & restarting (?). But once I'm past that point everything seems to be great. If the laptop goes to sleep, the egpu seems to get 'lost' - fan's ramp up to full and never come down, and the screen never comes back. So I disabled sleep and hibernate. Accidentally 'ejected' the thunderbolt enclosure once rather than my external hard drive. That seemed to crash things - wish it wasn't an option in the Remove Hard / Eject media menu, since its easy to hit by accident. No idea if optimus works or not -- I run a 4k external and disable the laptop lcd.
  5. I've got a Akito + GTX 960 setup working pretty well with my rMBP 2012 (w/ 650m), under both OSX and win7. I went the Bootcamp + DIY eGPU 1.2 route for windows, and it seems fine - a PCI compaction is enough to get things running. Been enjoying the setup for a while now, and it seems nice and stable, especially after following the advice for hacking the power connections on the akito board. I decided to try Win10 while the upgrade was still free, but haven't figured out how to get the eGPU working there. The postings I've seen in this forum seem to have people using the EFI install, though I would imagine that requires a fresh reinstall of Win10 - I assume that requires an install CD, and not sure I want to spend the money on Win10, especially if there's a risk of it not working. I have managed to get into the DIY eGPU setup, run the compaction like Win7, but once I chainload I get black screens on both the internal laptop display and out the GTX 960. Downgrading back to Win7 brought everything back to usable -- didn't even have to use my backup image. Was curious if anyone managed to get this working with the 2012 / dgpu model or have useful suggestions? Or if I should just stick with win7 and say screw it... Thanks in advance!
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