eGPU support in High Sierra officially announced

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The Vega Frontier edition has dual 8-pin connectors. That will not work for a cMP without some serious power modding (no thanks).

We really don't know what the Vega RX editions will have. I'd imagine that they would have some lower-power options if they are intended to compete with nVidia, something in the GTX 1070 range that maybe only has a single 8-pin connector. That should be no problem for a cMP as far as heat is concerned.

Good time to ask, but, is the cMP's thermal design really that bad? It has a big ass fan in the front of the PCI area of the case. And the case is pretty sizable. Sure, it would be nice to have a rear blower as well, but I don't think that makes it awful depending on the type of cooler the GPU has.

I guess that's why it's a good idea to stick to blower designs for GPUs, but that shouldn't preclude you from buying new GPUs if you can manage to get one with a blower, heat should be no problem as long as the TDP is less than 225w.

I was speaking about Vega 10 but yes there will be lower power consumer editions as usual.

Is the cMP thermal design bad? They didn't want us to stick any ATX motherboard we wanted in there and made sure it would be difficult to supply power to unapproved GPU upgrades. So it has the worst possible thermal design because they created three tight compartments and the fans for each were poor by PC standards of the time and even worse now.

The dev kit in 2005 had a standard PC layout as did the Lightpeak demo kit.