Nico Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Hi, I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" (Late 2013) with: - Haswell i5 4258U - 8 GB DDR3-1600 - Iris 5100 iGPU - 256 GB SSD - Thunderbolt 2 I built an eGPU using the Akitio Thunder2 PCIe Box, I tested it with an EVGA GTX 750 Ti SC and it was working perfectly. The card was PCIe powered using a 120W PSU (12V, 10A). All I need is a graphics card powered only by PCI-Express slot. I was thinking about a GTX 950 LP (new models which draw 75W directly from PCIe). In your opinion which one is better? - ASUS GTX950-2G (will it fit in the Akitio?) - ASUS MINI-GTX950-2G - MSI GTX 950 OCV2 - EVGA GTX 950 SC Alternatives: - ASUS Strix GTX 750 Ti with 4GB GDDR5, which will allow games like COD BO3 to run high-res textures, but has less CUDA Cores than GTX 950; - Wait for Nvidia Pascal/AMD Polaris mid-range GPUs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dschijn Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 It could work, but even with a 750Ti and a 120W PSU some people had stability issues, which I think a caused by the "weak" 120W PSU. Using a bigger GPU might result in that situation for you as well. Maybe consider stepping up to sth more powerful. (Dell DA-2 220W?) The ITX cards from ASUS are often very wide. ASUS cards with 6/8-Pin PCIe power plugs will not fit into the AKiTiO closed. Maybe they do fit without the PCIe power plugs. EVGA should be the safest way: evga-geforce-gtx-950-low-power Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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