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From what i read, Gigabyte held an event in Beijin CHina yesterday, and there was a thunderbolt 3 eGPU involved. If you can read chinese or confident with google translate, here are some links about news reporting it: http://toutiao.com/i6285954509818561025/ http://news.smzdm.com/p/26932/ edit: pics

This sounds very interesting! Since PCI-E and Thunderbolt are both two-directional communications, this should be possible. I think the transmitting and receiving pairs need to be swapped so that the the ASUS card and a graphic card can talk to each other. And then, I come up with some questions. What would provide the clock? If no one is providing, do i need an external clock? If so, what frequency? (I found 2.5GHz for PCIE 1.0, is that the same for 2.x?) What about the SMBus and JTAG in the PCIE pinout? What should I deal with them? May also swap the Tx / Rx of JTAG? What about SMBus?

I recently got the EXP GDC, and it works generally fine. My laptop is lenovo w520 (i7 2720qm + quadro 1000m), PSU is corsair cx430, and EVGA GTX 750Ti SC for graphics. There was a day that I constantly have an error about driver stops working. It seems solved after I re-install the driver. I am not sure if it's because I was using the beta version of the driver or what.