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Title: [Tomshardware] Hmm - Desktop Graphics In A Thunderbolt Chassis Post by: Zillions on September 19, 2012, 01:45:53 PM Too bad GPU mining will be going the way of the Dodo soon otherwise I'd actually try this out.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-graphics-thunderbolt,3263.html [snip]Have the rigors of life on the road forced you to ditch your desktop in favor of a laptop? What if you could add discrete graphics to your Ultrabook? We test the gaming performance of Sonnet's Echo Express Thunderbolt expansion chassis for PCIe cards.[/snip] Title: Re: [Tomshardware] Hmm - Desktop Graphics In A Thunderbolt Chassis Post by: Photon939 on September 19, 2012, 06:34:42 PM I'm glad to see something like this is finally available. Shame the price point puts it too far out of the useful area for most people though.
For a laptop user wanting better gaming/GPGPU performance, you could build a whole mini ATX system for the price of that adapter. For a miner wanting better efficiency, the benefits of attaching more GPUs to a rig is outweighed by the huge cost of the adapter. Title: Re: [Tomshardware] Hmm - Desktop Graphics In A Thunderbolt Chassis Post by: Shadow383 on September 19, 2012, 11:45:32 PM 150W PSU in that box seems like the only flaw, given that they support GPUs over 12" 150W seems low for such a device.
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