Page 1 of 1
External Gfx card via Thunderbolt
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 12:58 pm
by CA_Steve
This has been kicking around since Intel first announced Thunderbolt: Why not have an external graphics card for laptops? MSI showed a solution a year ago and it never came to light. Now Silverstone and Asus have
teamed up.
Some more coverage.
Anandtech
Computer Shopper
bit-tech
Re: External Gfx card via Thunderbolt
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 3:23 pm
by Jasp3r
Linus uploaded a vid 2 hours ago about Gigabyte's very early prototype of it's Extrernal Graphics card at CES 2014:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RTkNJDMzug
And have you never taken a look at
eGPU?
It's pretty sketchy and requires an exernal monitor I believe, another option is the viDock
http://www.villageinstruments.com/tiki- ... age=ViDock
Re: External Gfx card via Thunderbolt
Posted: Fri Jan 10, 2014 11:15 pm
by fuugu
That makes so much sense. Will be keeping an eye on this.