Jamie1986 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Hi all,Check down this article.SilverStone Joins the 'Steam Machine' Compact Case RaceSee a familiar looking box under the name of the ASUS XG2?? That's right - it looks to me exactly like the T004.Now that ASUS is behind it as well maybe we can see an imminent release? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator angerthosenear Posted January 10, 2014 Moderator Share Posted January 10, 2014 Hopefully the price won't rise because of this. Would be nice to keep this full unit in the sub-200$ range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie1986 Posted January 11, 2014 Author Share Posted January 11, 2014 More details here:SilverStone / ASUS SG Station 2 External Thunderbolt Video Card Hands-On | Gamers Nexus - Gaming PC Builds & Hardware Benchmarks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relentless Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 Good find Jamie.I submitted the TomsHardware article after finding it yesterday to Anandtech, ArsTechnica and TheVerge with a hope that one of them might write this up.The problem is that these product managers seem to be poor problem solvers: - Get Intel to sign it off for Thunderbolt 2.0 by certification for using one of their 'approved' purposes i.e. Certification for one of those professional camera interface cards. Also stress on the product web page that it is strictly only for supported PCIe cards and any use of unsupported cards is at the consumers risk as it is not intended for this.- Start selling it and 'leak' it to forums that it also works for standard consumer video cards.- Profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie1986 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 GigaByte also working on something as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackan Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 "Gigabyte hopes to get something working by Computex"... yeah, right, more waiting, and waiting, and waiting..."We were told that Asus is working further on enable Apple/Mac support, but there are presently no guarantees". No shit. I would actually bet a million dollar that Apple will never help to make an eGPU solution working on their products. It goes totally against the core of their philosophy of integrating everything and making things obsolete in less than 2 years, so you have to buy new.I bet we will see no eGPU solution this year either. Seems like a total deja vu from last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uDenis Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Hello everyone,I have contacted SilverStone Technology and asked them about the status of this project, after I told them how excited we are about it.Unfortunately the response was the one we all expected but hoped to not be true."Currently the development on the external Thunderbolt GPU box is on hold due to licensing issues..""..we're forbidden to sell this product because Intel doesn't allow it or support it.."and about the involvement of ASUS"...we were trying to resolve the licensing issue with Intel by co-branding with Asus. However, Intel seemed to postpone this project indefinitely for the moment.."At this point we all know that waiting is useless, I write this to ask you if maybe we could start a petition or a kickstarter campaign, anything? I think we can create a precedent and things might change in the long run 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackan Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Why they even start to develop these eGPU solutions without Intel's approval? Anyway, Intel can go fuck themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfraser Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Hello everyone,I have contacted SilverStone Technology and asked them about the status of this project, after I told them how excited we are about it.Unfortunately the response was the one we all expected but hoped to not be true."Currently the development on the external Thunderbolt GPU box is on hold due to licensing issues..""..we're forbidden to sell this product because Intel doesn't allow it or support it.."and about the involvement of ASUS"...we were trying to resolve the licensing issue with Intel by co-branding with Asus. However, Intel seemed to postpone this project indefinitely for the moment.."At this point we all know that waiting is useless, I write this to ask you if maybe we could start a petition or a kickstarter campaign, anything? I think we can create a precedent and things might change in the long runI have begun a pettion at change.org. Here's the URL: https://www.change.org/petitions/intel-allow-silverstone-and-asus-to-sell-the-asus-sg-station-2#share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisbrecher99 Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 The same situation for the new "G4" devices of Village Instruments (ViDocks)... their Thunderbolt-device also has not passed the Intel certification process. ^^I found another Thunderbolt solution... called nanoCUBE. Unfortunately this device is quiet expensive with $435 (incl. case) but it seems to be available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcagara08 Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I have begun a pettion at change.org. Here's the URL: https://www.change.org/petitions/intel-allow-silverstone-and-asus-to-sell-the-asus-sg-station-2#shareman I have signed the petition you made months back, now it only needs 3 signatures more to reach 200 sigs!will this bring change really? can this petition be taken seriously by Intel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcagara08 Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 C'mon c'mon guys spread the word further let's make this Revolution happen with our rage fists via our signatures and pledge!"Now testify! It's right outside our door!" - Rage Against the Machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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