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I never thought about that. That's a good idea. It be great if it sat more firmly and it could be easily inserted and removed. I wonder if an hard drive ultrabay caddy might work.

My adapter isn't under pressure or stress from anything, it just doesn't seat well. I wish it seated better but the only reason it's annoying for me is that my girlfriend broke her monitor so she's been using mine and I've been disconnecting and reconnecting it to the egpu over the last couple of days. Once she gets another monitor/hdmi cable it's a non-issue since it's not going to happen very often that I'm fiddling with it or moving things while it's running.

I kind of managed to fit everything on my desk though cable management is a bit of a nightmare at the moment especially because of the non-modular psu (please excuse the image quality I took it with a potato). The only problem I'm having right now with regards to the egpu setup -other than needing a bigger desk- is that the adapter won't seat very well in the connector at all so if I move anything I get an hard lock and have to reboot. Taking that picture I tried to see if I could move that cord that is sticking up behind the gpu into a different position and it was enough of a jostle to lock my computer up. I have the adapter pushed in as far as it will go.

I don't need the egpu going to my laptop screen. I game on my monitor connected to the egpu and use the laptop screen as a secondary monitor. I've already done some streaming with a game running on my monitor and using the laptop screen for obs and chat and that's worked perfectly fine. I like having a intact laptop that I can move in 5 minutes if I wanted to so I probably won't be dissembling it. I can drag applications from one screen to another and it works. I'm constantly doing it with chrome tabs and other programs. Just then to make sure it worked with something beefier, I started a game in windowed mode, dragged it over to my laptop screen, and it ran perfectly fine.

You mean disassemble my laptop and connect the gpu directly to the laptop screen? I couuld have that completely ass up.

How does everyone have their adapter setup? I do a lot of streaming so I want to see my monitor as well as my laptop screen for chat and obs and my desk is neither long enough nor wide enough for a setup like that. My laptop with the psu besides it takes up quite a bit of room. I either have my monitor at an awkward angle and have to turn my neck to see it or I can't fit my mouse and keyboard on my desk...so annoying. I really wish I bought a modular psu so I wouldn't have that mess of wires to deal with as well; I actually think I got bait and switched since I swear the listing said modular when I bought it.

Finally going to get my adaptor today. If I'd known how long this would have taken I'd paid for better shipping.

Whoops. I mistyped that sentence.

Anything if a decent gpu in it is pretty close to double -if you don't go crazy with the monitor and keyboard- what the adapter and accessories would cost....here in Canada at least. It's good to hear you got it working with Win 8.1 I was worried I'd have to finally make the change to Win 10. What? I wasn't arguing it was cheaper. Electronic prices in Canada are expensive too so there's no way you're getting a decent laptop with anywhere near the price of the adapter and accessories.

Buying an adapter +psu+ gpu is definitely not cheaper than buying a brand new laptop even if you buy all the parts brand new. Edit: That "not" shouldn't be there.

Yeah, I see what you mean. Amd did update their drivers though to draw less power from the pci-e.

Both the adapter and the gpu are powered separately by your psu

Lucky. I have my psu and gpu ready to go but it just arrived in Canada today. It annoys me that anything coming from Europe has to pass over where I live, go 3000 km to Central Canada for processing, and then 3000 km back this way to get to me.

Anyone received their adapter yet from this batch?

If you were a day or so quicker you could have ordered one. You'll have to check with Gerald if there will be another batch but the last one was up for a month and barely got filled.