cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/24869981
I recently got a little tablet laptop, and learned that over thunderbolt you could plug in a GPU with a little dock board.
My desktop had a liquid cooled GPU so it became a whole thing to get it out and dockable.
I always wanted to mess with 2020 aluminum extrusion so this was my chance.
Its been a couple weeks work at this point and I'm in the home stretch. I have it running now so its just about tidying up and finding a good way to mount the acrylic panels after doing a final coolant flush
I also wanted to say thank you to all the comments from my last post when i first got my mitre saw for this project. it really made me be cautious when making my cuts, I always took my time clamping my pieces down and then going through the motion of making the cut with the saw powered off before making the cut https://leminal.space/post/24432635
9 Comments
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y
Looks open to me
xylol@leminal.space · 4 pts · 1y
Haha acrylic coming soon
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Well that's extremely neat.
Awkwardparticle@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
I used an eGPU for a laptop a couple of years ago. When I started to do testing, I found that thunderbolt only had the bandwidth equivalent of less than 8 lanes of PCIe gen 3. This could not be the case anymore if thunderbolt has a new standard.
xylol@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y
I think thunderbolt 5 is solid but sadly this tablet is tb4 so it does have a bit of performance loss compared to when it was on my desktop
undeffeined@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
OMG its been a while since I've seen PC modding in the wild, thank you. Cool build!
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
This looks really cool..what were the electronic components you needed to build the enclosure? And what was the cost for materials?
xylol@leminal.space · 1 pts · 1y
I'm using a SFX power supply for powering the GPU and then i got this board that came with the cable https://a.co/d/57Nwws4
Based off of some reviews on https://egpu.io/
xylol@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y
If you click on the original post it has more photos of the process and it running