These are highly rated online, and usually sell for around $550 delivered, so this is a substantial discount of about 25%.
Just picked up one for myself, and am going to get myself a 1060 to put in it. There's loads of room, even for large graphics cards.
With Thunderbolt 3!
Yip, sure does look like an incredible rip even at the lower price
the tb chip is where the money at, about 100$ for manufacture to buy.
‘Required Windows 10 OS’
Looks like a rip off but the others are doing worse. Look at razer core. Razer = rip off which is a common sense.
This plus a gtx 60/70/80 and a thunderbolt enabled laptop is the cheapest route to the very high end graphics performance.
I wouldn't exactly say "very high end", you're constrained by the bandwidth of thunderbolt, which is 40gb/s. This means the sweet spot for the best card you can put in is a gtx 1080. Even though you CAN use a faster card (such as the 1080ti) which can process faster, it can't get data quickly enough, so you're wasting money as performance improvements are marginal. Also the performance hit of the thunderbolt controller, which even though is (depending on your laptop) hopefully plugged into 4 lanes of the PCI Express bus, is not the same as plugging a video card directly into PCI Express on a desktop, for example… That said I'd still get one, although not at this price considering how cheap 1080's are becoming, as it's still around 50% the cost of the card (and increasing daily as they drop even further)…
Pay this amount for what is essentially an enclosure?
No thanks!
Well if you compare it to a HDD enclosure, sure.
But this does help with the problem of a laptop that can push enough pixels for high performance gaming at home and also light enough to travel with.
Lugging a 3kg gaming laptop around is not fun.
This would allow me to use something like an x1 carbon.
You're right though this thing is expensive, I would be all over this if it gets to below $250 mark
this doesn't seem like a good deal at all
the best Egpu closure for sure. i have the akitio node with gtx750 and rx570. both works for mac and windows on my 2017MBP (with refind mod)
i replace the psu and fan with sfx and noctua (since i am building an A4 form factor pc as well. this is perfect for the transition.
this is a really good price for it too, normally the node cost 500$
i am sure pro offers more feature.
Just picked up one for myself, and am going to get myself a 1060 to put in it.
You're going to buy a $400 enclosure for a $300 graphics card?
you can sell it for 400$ but no way you gonna sell same price for gpu
$399 would pretty much buy you a bunch of components for a new PC - new CPU, new MB, new case, new RAM. Stick some old HDD in there and you have a whole new PC to enclose the graphics card in. Surely better than repurposing a laptop like this?
Just because something retails for $550 does not essentially mean it's a worthy bargain ..
so he shouldnt post it?
eGPUs are now becoming quite popular, many people run them, including myself.
This eGPU box retails in the US for US$349 which is AU$482 without shipping, GST (bah!) or anything else. No one else in Australia sells this that I could find.
In fact, the only other eGPU box I can find sold in Australia are the Sonnet series, the entry level 350W version retailing for over AU$500 (and the Node Pro is far superior in spec).
At AU$399 this is an ABSOLUTELY KILLER DEAL. I'm strongly considering selling my existing eGPU box (which I imported) and getting this instead.
Why does it cost so much for an case/enclosure without a graphic card.
Isn't it just a box with a power supply?