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Hi All, I hope you guys can help me. I have a late 2014 Mac mini and am pretty satisfied with it except for the graphics card (but that I won’t get an gaming machine was known before, so no hard feelings). I now read somewhere that its possible to use a external GPU over Thunderbold with around 65-85% of its Desktop Performance. I found out that there are several cases to support the card raging for around 200-1000$. 1000$ seems a little bit over the top. Do you guys have any experience with an external GPU or do you have any recommendations? Thank you very much! Kind regards, Nikolas
UPDATE: Examples that I found:
- https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox2-egpu… Case price 550$ -http://www.anandtech.com/show/7987/runni… Case Price 1000$
- a very old macrumors topic: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/exte…
- http://www.extremetech.com/computing/921… Article from 2011 complaining that your laptop or whatever is not mobile anymore (missing the point I guess) soloution for around 300$ I thought there will be a bigger market for this. Do you know anything else practical? I have found another article for future macs: http://liliputing.com/2015/08/intel-says…
Hi, I build an eGPU with a AKiTiO Thunder2 and a GTX970 which is the most powerful solution you can fit into the AKiTiO case. With my 15" MBPr I can use that power on the internal and external monitor for gaming/rendering/connecting multiple displays. There are many DIY solutions and most are based on the AKiTiO. Check out the forum with most of the eGPU magic: https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/f… And some of my eGPU videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/Dschijn/vid…
I have made work a Nvidia Quadro K1200 in a Mac Mini Late 2012 (Mac os El Capitan), through a Sonnet echo express Se II without additional power supply. Thats awesome but I am fighting to solve a problem which mentioned Niklas: “…Apple is limiting 4k displays by only making the 60Hz…” I am working in a UHD TV in 4K resolution but I can’t switch up to 60hz, 30hz is the limit. I have tried multiple things including SwitchResX but I can´t put the 4k resolution 60hz… I know my TV supports it, the cables and of course the graphic card. Could you help me? Greetings!
