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Now i'm waiting AKitio moves with Node. I think Apple will not make its own eGPU but will not stop its development.

Hi all! I will try as soon as possible new Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter they announced few hours ago. I really hope i can use my homemade Akitio eGPU with Nvidia 970GTX on my MacBook Pro 13" 2016 which i've ordered!

 

I will post here my result, do the same if you can try it sooner than me

 

http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter?fnode=e09572c8ad662aab9372157e6c5dcb44a2b44e8e4960abe33ae51a78ac7c22dc5cb8482fc3bf74c8ef78faa5e3cc9bd0617e305f74aeb2ff79df0a8df9b311188dee46443435dbfc5beafe024c53a502fccecfedeba94a6629caf65f1a1f6e0f

 

 

It would be awesome if we would be able to use our TB2 eGPU without issues.

 

 

 

No one? Sigh

Experienced the same, newer games running much better, but BL1 Goty was quite slow and choppy

Very interesting 

 

Really hoping to to see this display to come to life but I really hope to see a simpler solution for eGPU on macOS

Hi all I'm selling my lovely eGPU and one potential costumers with an iMac late 2015 asked me if he can use it as simple accellerator for his professional software like After Effects and Premiere. Can you provide more information? Do I still need to install automated eGPU script? Anyone tried this, can you see

the boost using it as an external accellerator and keeping using iMac 5k display as always?

 

thanks all for the help!

 

This is a disaster, I really hope there  is a  solution.

New price 550€

I've added this

 

http://www.ebay.it/itm/271967755577?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

 

 

Added thermal sensor for silencing the frontal fan when the card is cold. it will start to blow hot air away when app are demanding gfx power.

Hi! But it not so easy because i modify the powerplug pciexpress to be lateral. So with a newer card you should solder the pic power plugs like the second image. Very easy. The only card would fit this would be 1060

If anyone is interested i'm selling my beloved eGPU for 650€

One cable for power, all inside AKitio, modded 970 4GB.

Now running with 10.12 beta and Nvidia beta drivers! Everything is super!!!

 

Added final setup photo (protected the ventilation holes)!

 

 

I'm running 10.12 beta with latest Nvidia driver thanks to goalie script but the rendering seems on CPU, super slow with glitches. I have a Nvidia GTX 970

From the ATX plug the Dell-AC2 power the graphics card, the frontal fan and also the Akitio box. Soldering is needed, we removed the barrel and powered the akitio motherboard directly

Impressive!

Mine is closed too

 

 

Final result! (not true!)

 

Akitio seems to be working on a eGPU

 

@lucas979797 Yes, do you still need it? It runs in 4K on a LG UltraWide. 2xAA?

 

 

And finally photos of my implementation (did with a friend of mine who is a super expert)

 

Just one plug for power, a frontal fan and connected the PCIe power with one cable

 

The box works ok closed thank to a new 1cm fan in the front of the box. Anyway its get too hot so i'm planning to put bigger fan in the gfx card and makes big holes in the chassis.

 

 

Is it a know issue?

Created adhoc Dell AC-2 power adapter now the GFX card works better!

 

1545 score in Valley in Ultra 4k!

Hi all! I've searched the forums without luck. I've completed my Mac mini monster setup:

Mac mini 2014 os X 10.11.6

i5 2,8Ghz

16GB RAM

2 x SSD (Sata3 + PCIe)

Akitio with Nvidia GTX 970 4GB

 

Everything works like a dream, it is incredible but... when the Mac mini sleep for a long time it doesn't wake up anymore, it seems like it turn of completely. For example i left my Mac mini few hours ago since i needed to go to bed, this morning the Mac mini was turned off.

 

Can it be a kernel panic? Can it be sleep mode?

 

Any hint? Thanks so much!

I'm operative with my eGPU since few hours so i need to understand a lot of things better, but i needed some sleep and when i returned the Mac mini was powered off, so i fear wake sleep doesn't work. I've searched the forums without luck, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Hi all! Still work in progress, i will publish photos soon.

 

Mac mini 2014 - i5 2,8Ghz

16GB RAM

512GB PCIe blade SSD

960GB SanDisk Ultra2 SSD sata3

 

Just a quick benchmark for show you 15x increase performance!!!

 

Valley 4K high 2x

iris 5100 integrated: fps 1.9 score 78

Nvidia GTX 970 AKitio: fps 32.4 score 1357

 

updste: selling it at 550€!

 

 

 

 

 

final result!