Aleksei Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 System: Dell E5450 Palit Super JetStream GTX 1060 EXP GDC 8.4d (NGFF = M.2 A/E key) Arch Linux External monitor Hello everyone, After lurking on TechInferno for a while figuring out different M.2 "keys" I finally assembled my eGPU system. EXP GDC was sold as "8.0", but there's a print "8.4d" on the circuit board. GFX is powered by Dell DA-2 adapter (bought it for cheap on ebay) using these little guys: Connection is pretty simple - blue wire is soldered with one of the black ones (ground). All black ones are connected with all the black ones from GFX, yellow - with yellow; I tinned the wire endings to prevent corrosion. I used every connector going out of GFX to parallel out the power currents as much as possible - both 4x from EXP GDC and 6-pin from GFX itself (via 2 Molex, the ones that go to IDE HDDs power). You can see it all below. My GFX placement may not be the most conventional but a. It works; b. That side of the desk faces the wall, so it's not really visible; c. It's compact. I use Linux, so no GPU-Z screenshot. It works well for games for the past 2-3 weeks though. TF2, Dawn of War 2 (Linux version, shoutout to Feral for porting!), Path of Exile with WINE run with no issues. I use external monitor only, didn't try the internal monitor. I didn't do any BIOS tinkering or anything like that, only had to configure Xorg. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splitframe Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Can you do some Benchmarks for this? That would be really cool. I guess with the M/A Key it runs with pcie x2, do you reach 3rd Gen or 2nd Gen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aleksei Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 PCIe Generation: Gen2 I can run some benchmarks. Any suggestions for GPU-only ones that run on Linux? I don't want to fry my mobile CPU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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