Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Gaming Box $962.02 Delivered @ MediaForm eBay

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  shiny1 on 15/06/2018 - 14:20

  +7

  To clarify, this thing is (typically) used a laptop enhancer using high bandwidth ports like thunderbolt 3 so you can play graphically demanding games.

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    ingster on 15/06/2018 - 14:25

    Yep exactly. I am going to use it with my XPS 15 (9570).

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    furythree on 15/06/2018 - 15:15

    i have a transformer pro tablet. with thunderbolt how do i check if its got v3 of TB

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      ingster on 15/06/2018 - 16:37

      The latest one does, someone has even done a review on this with it.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G3IlMOVaQ4

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    AlienC on 15/06/2018 - 15:32

    Any idea how long you can get some cables and still work.

    It's a neat solution if you can hide the external away or put it in a safe place and just run a long cable to your device be it a laptop or surface pro tablet.

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      ingster on 15/06/2018 - 16:34

      +1

      I know the cable that comes with it is quite short (.5m). After a quick google it looks like they can maintain their full speed at cable lengths of up to 2M.

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        TimeOrMoney on 15/06/2018 - 18:38

        Needs to be an active TB3 cable, though. They get expensive: 2M cables have a triple-digit price tag.

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  reinerkim on 15/06/2018 - 14:35

  at least hp added a hdd to it

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  Jatacid on 15/06/2018 - 14:41

  +2

  I'm waiting for a sale on the new Razer Core X graphics enclosures. They're way cheaper and you can put any graphics card into them so you can pick up a second hand one off of gumtree or something

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    AlienC on 15/06/2018 - 15:30

    Yeah was about to say this technology sounds amazing but would want one as future proof as possible so I can still use it with graphics cards like 9 years from now.

    If it's restricted to a 1080 or 11 series only then it won't be of much use to anybody unless they really wanna game on a 1080 in like 5-6 years.

    Bad depreciable asset.

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      AlgoTrading on 15/06/2018 - 15:42

      +4

      Well… thunderbolt 3 probably won't be the best connectivity technology 9 years from now…

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        AlienC on 15/06/2018 - 15:52

        How long do you reckon it has left to go

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        TimeOrMoney on 15/06/2018 - 18:49

        It's good just dependent on the life of TB3, but also PCIe3.

        Re: depreciation, the gaming box itself is relatively cheap, probably ~$200 after you deduct the price of the card. The Razer Core is ~$500 without a card. That's a higher pricepoint to fall from.

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        AlgoTrading on 15/06/2018 - 20:04

        @AlienC: GTX 1080 supposedly max out the thunderbolt 3 bandwidth already when using laptop screen

        https://www.notebookcheck.net/Aorus-GTX-1080-Gaming-Box-Revi…

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        AlienC on 15/06/2018 - 23:19

        @AlgoTrading: so 1080Ti no go? Sorry I'm being lazy but just wondering if you knew off hand

        Just did some reading looks like it is meant for the GTX 1080 only.. sigh no upgradeability

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        AlgoTrading on 16/06/2018 - 00:18

        @AlienC: Not sure about 1080Ti performance, but the review said to minimise the TB3 bottleneck you're gonna have to play at max settings (so the card itself becomes the bottleneck, not that you wouldn't already)

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        AlienC on 16/06/2018 - 00:21

        @AlgoTrading: there is.. the zotac mini 1080ti

        http://au.ign.com/articles/2017/08/08/zotac-geforce-gtx-1080…

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  ingster on 15/06/2018 - 16:27

  You can replace the card in this, just needs to mini ITX form factor. So yes you are restricted but it is changeable. I agree thunderbolt 3 will be superseded in the next few years though. Technology moves pretty fast these days.

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  ingster on 16/06/2018 - 15:47

  +2

  https://egpu.io/external-gpu-buyers-guide-2018/ - This is a pretty good round up of all current available options.