Transform your laptop into a desktop-class gaming powerhouse with this advanced graphics enclosure, complete with gaming-grade power, ports and Razer Chroma.
Designed to support the latest PCIe desktop graphics cards, it delivers professional-grade graphics performance and blazingly fast data speeds all through a single plug-and-play Thunderbolt 3 cable.
Tech specs
Power supply Internal ATX 700 W
Laptop power delivery 100 W
Max size GPU Up to 3-slot card
Still cheaper to buy gaming laptop by itself though.
For example a 1660 laptop is 1000/1500, a 2080 laptop is 2500 ish. While this egpu still need a graphic card, and without processor etc.
Don't get me started with a pc…
Not the same performance though, this one will run much cooler, also you already have a CPU in your laptop.
The main use case for this is to have a slim laptop which can also game, gaming laptops are either heavy and bulky or slim with bad thermals.
@Jasonissm: Agree on second point, but do much cost to get that luxury. Maybe $2000 more.
On the first point however, I don't quite agree, it's just a pc…
They should have combine it with a nas so it serves as low power pc nas when not in use, but with a laptop it powers up plus access to the hard drive via thunderbolt
@Jasonissm: Yeah, but basically if you are going to fork out for a real GPU, and this contraption, you basically have just spent enough to buy yourself a real PC.
Mobile CPUs are significantly deficient to their desktop counterparts, not just GPUs. In my view this is a gimmick; and an expensive one at that. It has a niche use case though - so it's nice that somebody made it.
If you care about money to performance, which I presume OZbers do, avoid.
@Budju: Yeah, definitely, I'm not arguing for the price to performance of this, just stating that it has a real use case, usually paired with like a Razer Blade laptop, in which the CPU is perfectly fine for gaming purposes.
To make your own build, you'd probably need to fork out a decent amount, first for a CPU that's better than your Razer Blade, and decent PSU, RAM, etc.
That's not an insignificant amount and won't be under $500 unless you're choosing craptastic parts, but investing more would definitely be a worthwhile option.
This (and all similar options) seems to be the only viable way of attaching 2 or more screens to a laptop via single Thunderbolt 3 cable.
Not sure about the Windows world, but most Mac thunderbolt 3 ports will allow daisy chaining of monitors off the one cable.
Limited choice in daisy chaining screens though.
A simple and cheap docking station will connect two screens to your laptop (just had a look at the one the came for peanuts with my Dell).
Out of curiosity, what sort of niche use case requires one single thunderbolt 3 cable to achieve the same result? I don't know much about thunderbolt.
Dock stations do not allow 4K screens at 60 Hz, or if some allow they use dodgy compression that spikes CPU and even mouse can freeze at 100% utilisation
It just sounds hugely expensive for the end result.
@Budju: Yes, but there are no other options for some laptops that only have single Thunderbolt 3 such as Matebook X Pro 2019 which I am going to buy once they are available officially in Australia.
@alpln: I guess so. The i7 8565U performs worse than a 3570k - so maybe just consider is it worth spending like $1k+ on a graphics card and enclosure to pair with a desktop processor worth like $50.
You could just pick up a 4770k system second hand for like $150-200 and forget the enclosure lol. It would be a significantly better computer. And have your nice laptop for when you need that for portability reasons as well.
@alpln: Is this a good price for your matebook?
https://www.mobileciti.com.au/huawei-matebook-13-i7-8565u-51…
@Budju: It's not Matebook X Pro :) this one does not have any Thunderbolt 3 ports, and it is only 8GB of RAM. I don't care about CPU much, but I do care about sufficient RAM and GPU RAM.
Remark, I should have added 4K screens.
Yes they are Niche but if you need one this is an amazing price I got one for 580 on edu discount then used Amex offer to get it to 480 but this is a gret deal with no amex offer needed.
There was recently another Microsoft Amex offer - if you saved it and have a .edu then you can have it for $484.10 after student & $100 discount.
I bought one from eBay, because I had eBay vouchers from the past gift card deals.
Been eyeing out for a good price, for an eGPU this ticks all the boxes for me.
PD charging - no need to plug in USB-C charger to your laptop
Multiple USB slots - connect external HDD for bigger games library
Future expandability - big PSU and big enough to fit most graphics card on the market
plus it has Ethernet port.
This can be as your Thunderbolt dock :)
Which is better, this or the v2?