Razer Core X Thunderbolt 3 External Graphics Enclosure $375.20+ $15 Delivery (Free with eBay Plus) @ Computer Alliance eBay

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frankfu1122 on 09/05/2019 - 12:03 ebay.com.au (498 clicks)
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Similar to this deal here which was well received.

I have one myself and was able to fit a full sized EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW3.

Specs

Thunderbolt 3 connection to systems for fast speeds up to 40 Gbps
Macs require macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later and compatible AMD graphics card.
Windows 10 systems require external graphics (eGFX) support and RS1 or later and compatible NVIDIA or AMD graphics card.
Support for full-length, up to 3 slot-wide PCIe desktop graphics cards. Graphics card sold separately.
Powerful 650W ATX power supply and 100W laptop charging.

Here is a review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOv6v-ynYQE

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  pc6673 on 09/05/2019 - 12:11

  just a case for GPU,right?

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    mrderrickc on 09/05/2019 - 12:13

    Yes

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    frankfu1122 on 09/05/2019 - 12:14

    No GPU included.

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  congo on 09/05/2019 - 12:14

  Any lag or bottleneck?

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    frankfu1122 on 09/05/2019 - 12:20

    +5

    Didn't feel much when I was using it with my Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6. Probably comes down to two things

    1. Whether your laptop's Thunderbolt 3 port supports 2 or 4 pcie lanes. Mine had 4 so it was pretty good. See discussion)
    2. Whether you will be using a monitor or the laptop screen as the display. Using it with a monitor is a lot better. See discussion
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    Yowiefied on 09/05/2019 - 12:20

    +2

    There is about a 20pc hit to frame rate, based on a number of submissions to 3DMark. That doesn’t tell the whole story though. The throttle is the TB3 interface, so sending the GPU data is impacted (frame rates) however running higher resolutions aren’t impacted as much. So if you’re currently achieving decent frame rates on your laptop, but want to take advantage of 4K this would be ideal (eg. Running laptop with Large external monitor).

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    FabMan on 09/05/2019 - 13:12

    +1

    From what I've read, your bottleneck is larger when looping back to your laptops screen rather than outputting to an external monitor.

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    Anubis on 09/05/2019 - 13:33

    +3

    Performance summary:

    1. External monitor yields best performance
    2. PCIE lanes 4x yields best performance with higher resolution taking lowest hit
    3. DX11 suffers far more than DX12. With DX12 games I can get close to desktop speeds with minor overclock assuming you satisfy points 1 and 2. DX11 takes a much bigger hit which you can't really make up for.
    4. CPU does become a bottleneck on lower specced laptops and even some higher specced ones when thermal throttling kicks in. Not an issue on high specced NUC or Mac Minis
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  jv on 09/05/2019 - 12:33

  -7

  Razer Core X Thunderbolt 3 External Graphics Enclosure

  Does this have a Lightning connector?

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    YLD1 on 09/05/2019 - 12:44

    +2

    not sure if you're ignorant or trying to be funny

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      Merlict on 09/05/2019 - 13:24

      Why not both?

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      jv on 09/05/2019 - 14:35

      -3

      you're ignorant or trying to be funny

      That would be very, very frightening…

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  peter_mcc on 09/05/2019 - 12:34

  +1

  Does anyone know when the Chroma version is coming out? I need something to drive 2 x 4k monitors for work (along with ethernet & some USB ports) and it seems like the best way to do it.

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    dzf on 09/05/2019 - 12:54

    Haha…i was looking to see how much Chroma was, for the USB and ethernet ports as well.

    Seems to be available at a few places already, but ouch.
    http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=razer+core+x+ch…

    Edit: ok, i clicked on some links, and a couple of the places list ETA as mid next week (Scorptec, CPL)…apparently PCCG reckon they'll get some today…!

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    coxymla on 09/05/2019 - 13:51

    If you only want to drive two external monitors you don't need a eGPU. Just get a normal TB dock.

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    deelaroo on 09/05/2019 - 17:33

    Wouldnt you just buy a dedicated PC? Like what would the cost be of that external unit vs a dedicated PC?

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    jace88 on 09/05/2019 - 21:26

    I'm also on the lookout. Razer's website has it available for sale for Australia, and I believe there may be a $15 mailing list coupon or some student discounts might apply for those with edu emails, but not much else to get it cheaper unfortunately.