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I am a freelancer designer, and I am currently searching the market for a workstation. A DIY desktop will definitely give me a batter performance with less money, but I am more of a laptop guy, and for the first time in history, w are expecting mobile workstations with actual Xeon CPUs inside.now the problem is this. My main rendering software is Keyshot, and it really give you an insane performance boost when you have a Xeon Phi coprocessor in your computer. It uses 8x PCIE interface, so it's a desktop device, like the egpus we have been using here. I came to think that a mobile workstation with a Xeon Phi plugged into e4h just might be be viable solution. This is a multiple grands of spending, so I thought I'd just at least ask here before I shell out on anything. Did anyone here try an eGPU like configuration with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor?

Hi. It's good to post my first posting Perhaps some of you(maybe most) may know of this already. I am a newbie when it comes to eGPU, and everything related to this is quite new to me, and I want to know if anyone in this forum shares this experience with me. I have ThinkPad X201 Tablet(i7 620LM, Intel 320 SSD 120GB, 8GB 10600 RAM). Recently I bought PE4H 2.4a, and ASUS GTX650 ECO(With no 6-pin power, so you can run it without ATX PSU) I had some very hard time trying to get it work, but none of the methods discussed here seemed to work properly to me don't really know why...maybe I just wasn't reading real carefully. I tried various attempts to make my machine allocate the memory properly but wasn't really getting there until I tried to boot the computer with eGPU plugged in...(I already tried this and already knew my machine fails to boot with eGPU plugged in...you know, the blank screen and "system configuration changed issue" so it was kind of my last resort) right after pressing the power button, I decided it was not a good idea after all, and pulled the card out...then the thing worked!!! WTF!!!?? I don't even need Setup 1.x, I can even hotplug it on Windows without making it sleep, work perfectly fine on Windows 7 and 8. You can even do that Optimus thing... I tested with hours of videogames already and there was no problem...system is perfectly stable. So, this is what I figured out. You power it up with the card plugged in, and pull it out right before the display comes up. Hotplug it at Windows environment... thats it My speculation: So the computer initializes the devices and allocates memory at powerup. When external graphics card is detected, it routes disp. sig. to the card, which results in various problems because laptop is not made to do such thing. If you unplug the card after the devices are initialized and memory is allocated properly, but still before display sig. is sent out, the sig. goed out to internal graphics card, and system boots up normally. But at the background, the memory for eGPU is allocated and is ready for hotplug. I think if I could save this initial memory status and dump it at startup, I could replicate the status without this unplugging thing. Maybe this could be an universial solution because every computer does has Dev. Init. sequence at powerup. Can you try this out and tell me if you can replicate this on your settings? If connection is this easy, maybe I could convince my boss to develop a new preconfigured eGPU product.