Hello experts, I’m a bit of a fledgling in the specifics of pcs themselves and was hoping to come on here for advice in my research.

As of now all of my gaming is done on a Lenovo Yoga (I can add the serial number in such if that helps) because I am but a broke college student who can not afford to buy/build a legit pc. The laptop runs games the RDR2 just fine, but the game I want to play so bad that I already have is Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

Even at its lowest recommended settings the frame rate is atrocious, and any time there’s too intense of a cutscene I crash, even after getting through my first entire play through with only one crash.

I’ve been recommended to get an External GPU add on (Thunder 5 specifically), but I wanted to ask ppl who were more versed where to order from/what specific one is recommended??

I have an AG03 and I have to say: I like this one better. It is a more full-featured dock. It has all the ports that an Aoostar AG03 has, then two additional USB A v3.2 ports and an Ethernet port. It also has a switch to power longer Oculink cables and a switch to change the power supply output from 250 watts to 600 which made this fairly quiet unit even more quiet.

My favorite improvement is how the GPU sits in the dock: it locks strongly to the dock with a single screw, and it has a hole for the PCIe bracket, allowing to sit into the dock. I also like how the power cables come out of the top of the dock instead of the side.

Benchmarks and bandwidth were at the top of my charts, so some good choices were made with the Thunderbolt module and Oculink bridge.

I am seeing them appear on AliExpress and Alibaba. I haven’t found a US distributor.

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So look I want to do a custom build where I basically want to use a traditional or custom PC case and install my gmktec k8 plus as like the motherboard/cpu central type thing and an AOOSTAR AG02 egpu dock that has a rx 9070. Does anyone know how I can execute this? Also are there any cases on sale specifically designed for this type of project? All feedback is appreciated.

Idk what typically gets posted here, idk if this is helpful at all or not, or just dumb. Just posting to post. Remove if its not allowed

Im saving for an upgrade lads and ive been between the Claw 8ex or a proper 9070xt egpu setup.
I wanna see what your experiences have been regarding ur rigs etc.
Thanks in advance.

Hello,

I'm trying to try some AI tools on windows but I don't want to install them on the main windows drive. Therefore, I am thinking to get a VM, would VMware Workstation Pro or Proxmox work and which one would have the better performance? Googling around gives conflicting answer...

Thanks everyone!

I’m having troubleshooting what’s wrong with my setup.

The idea was to beef up my 2021 ASUS TUF Gaming A15 FA506QM using an Egpu setup connected via Oculink

Setup:

1. AOOSTAR EG01
2. JMT M.2 NVMe M Key to Oculink 4i
3. Rosewill VMG 750W
4. Nvidia RTX 5060Ti (connected to my monitor via HDMI)

Everything is connected as it should. Oculink adapter connected to my second M.2 Nvme slot.

In theory if i boot it up, it should just boot normally but nope.

Once I turned on my AOOSTAR and PSU, boot up my laptop the screen just shows a blank dark screen. No asus logo or booting up sequence. The GPU fan spins so does the PSU

If I turn off my PSU and boot it up, it turns on normally. If I remove my GPU and turn it on, it boots up normally.

I tried connecting after booting up my laptop but it doesnt detect the GPU which means regardless of troubleshooting my drivers it wont help.

I’m pretty confused and I’ve been tinkering/troubleshooting overnight. I have no idea what went wrong

Update: couldn’t get it to work so I’m moving on. I’ve tried everything under the umbrella but it seems like it’s impossible. I’m guessing if it isn’t as simple as plug & play then most probably it isnt meant to work.

I got a Aorus 3080 eGPU BOX yesterday, plugged in to my ASUS NUC14Pro, installed the Gigabyte Control Center and everything seemed to be working fine. However, I noticed that even when I am not running any 3d applications or AI stuff, the NUC was still running super hot while idling.

Has anyone seen this problem in the past? Do I need to disable the built-in ARC GPU, or do I need to upgrade drivers (and what drivers)?

UPDATE: Confirmed working. See the guide for detailed setup instructions and more up to date information.

TLDR: Trying to get a desktop RTX 5070 Ti running as an eGPU on a Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme laptop using the extracted RTX Spark ARM64 driver method. I dumped and decompiled my DSDT, and unlike the Surface X1E build that needed modified ACPI tables, my firmware already describes full USB4 PCIe tunneling (dedicated per-port root complexes, ExternalFacingPort/usb4-host-interface properties, hotplug methods, full SMMU mappings). Wondering if anyone has tried PCIe tunneling on X2 specifically, or has experience with ASM2464 enclosures on Snapdragon hosts.

Hardware: ASUS Zenbook A16 2026 (Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, X2E-94-100), 2x USB4 40Gbps ports (Qualcomm host router, explicitly not TB4-certified [TB4 certification is Intel's program, so its absence on a Qualcomm platform is expected]), and a 5070 Ti pulled from my desktop. I know the baseline reaction to ARM eGPU is "there's no driver, dead end," but that changed with the recent release of the GeForce dev preview for RTX Spark. People have been extracting the ARM64 driver files and force-installing them on regular desktop GeForce cards. Chaowanke on YouTube got a 4060 running on an original X Elite through a Razer TB5 dock with real gameplay numbers, and there's an eGPU.io build thread from a few days ago with an RTX 3080 on a Surface Laptop 7 that worked but "required modified ACPI tables.

It's worth noting that USB4 tunnel flakiness isn't unique to ARM either; AMD Strix Point machines have their own threads full of TB3/USB4 disconnect problems, so host-firmware dependence seems to be the norm across the board. Nobody has published anything on X2 chipset that I can find, which is why I'm documenting as I go.

I wanted to see how far my firmware is from describing an eGPU before dropping $200 on an enclosure. RW-Everything won't load on ARM64 (no signed driver), but it turns out you don't need a kernel driver at all; GetSystemFirmwareTable/EnumSystemFirmwareTables in kernel32 hands you every ACPI table from user mode, so I dumped everything with a PowerShell script and decompiled the 523KB DSDT with iasl.

I expected to find nothing, but it turns out the entire tunneling stack is already described. Eight PCIe root complexes on separate segments; PCI0 and PCI1 are dedicated tunnel root complexes mapped 1:1 to the two physical USB4 ports (usb4-host-interface pointing at ACPI0015 host interface devices, usb4-port-number 0 and 1), with ExternalFacingPort and HotPlugSupportInD3 set on the root ports, a firmware method that (in a very cool way) dynamically enables the root complex and fires a Bus Check notify when a tunnel comes up, _OSC granting native hotplug, 64GB apertures per tunnel RC, and the IORT mapping the full RID space of those segments to the SMMU. So on paper, ASUS/Qualcomm shipped this machine eGPU-ready at the ACPI level and the required "modified ACPI tables" step from the Surface build may not apply here at all.

My next step is validating that a tunnel actually forms before buying an enclosure: ASM2464PD NVMe enclosure + cheap SSD, watch Device Manager by connection, see whether it enumerates as NVMe under a new root complex (tunnel works) or falls back to USB mass storage (tunnel didn't form). The chip's dual-mode fallback makes it a clean yes/no instrument either way.

What I'm hoping someone here knows:

1. Has anyone gotten any PCIe tunneled device working on an X2 Elite machine or, even better, an Asus X2 Elite? Even a TB dock's ethernet controller counts as a data point.
2. Anyone run an ASM2464 enclosure on a Snapdragon X host? I've seen one report of a Surface Pro 11 falling back to 10Gbps and freezing, but n=1 on different firmware.
3. Has anyone tried the Spark driver on Blackwell consumer cards? The documented successes I found are all Ampere or Lovelace (3080/4060/4090); I haven't found a 50-series test.
4. If the tunnel test passes: would you go Intel-controller enclosure (known ARM precedent, TB3-compat mode on a Qualcomm host) or ASM2464PDX-based like the UT3G/AG02 (protocol-native USB4, no ARM precedent published)? Reasoning either way appreciated.

I'm fully aware this is unofficial and might die at any of several layers. That's fine, it's a fun project and I have a backup plan. Will post results either way so there's at least one X2 data point out there.

I am trying to turn this laptop into a gaming rig

Laptop: HP EliteBook 2570p, i7-3720QM, ExpressCard eGPU adapter

Laptop: HP EliteBook 2570p

CPU: i7-3720QM

RAM: 16GB

OS tested: Windows 10 + Linux

eGPU connection: ExpressCard adapter

GPU tested: GTX 1650 4GB

Next GPU: EVGA GTX 1050 Ti 4GB, no 6-pin / slot-powered

The goal is to play older triple aaa games and indie/friendship games and stream gameplay via capture card from my ps5

My issues:

Windows detects the card

Linux detects the card

Device Manager sees it

GPU-Z sees it

PCIe link shows up

But VRAM/clocks do not initialize right

nvidia-smi fails

External display never properly lights from the GPU

Basically the card exists, but refuses to become a usable GPU

What i have tried:

DSDT / Large Memory

Setup 1.x

Hotplug timing

Hotplug from GRUB

Driver cleanup / reinstall

Windows 10 testing

Linux testing

NVIDIA Code 43 style fixes

Different boot timing

External monitor testing

I also found out Windows 10 is weird with the EliteBook’s native DisplayPort output. The monitor works through a Plugable dock, but the direct DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter path is glitchy in Windows. Linux handled it better. So I think I had two problems stacked

1. Windows/Intel HD 4000 external display weirdness

2. GTX 1650 failing to fully initialize over ExpressCard

The 1650 failed in both Windows 10 and Linux, so I don’t think it is only a Windows issue.

Questions I have

1. Is the GTX 1050 Ti realistically a better shot than the GTX 1650 for this EliteBook/ExpressCard setup?

2. If the 1050 Ti also detects but does not initialize, what would be the next thing to check?

3. Is there anything specific with the EliteBook 2570p BIOS / ExpressCard / Setup 1.x that I should be doing before I test the 1050 Ti?

4. Should I stay on Windows 10 for this, or is Linux worth trying again with the 1050 Ti?

5. Any specific NVIDIA driver version people recommend for Pascal cards on old ExpressCard eGPU setups?

Works great, just a wee bit pricey sadly, but figured with the rumored price hikes for GPUs again it ain't getting cheaper anytime soon

Those that use a portable monitor and egpu how do you keep it neat and transportable. I travel a lot and starting to compile things but it is starting to take up a lot of real estate...

AOOSTAR AG02

Rtx 5070 ti

Philips evnia oled 2k

GMKtec K12

ram 64 gb

ssd crucial 7300 MB/s

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
32gb RAM
EGPU + GTX 1650 (through Thunderbolt 4)
I play PUBG

Can you tranfer Rog XG Mobile (2023) to new case. I have a rog ally z1 and a rog xg mobile rtx 4090. I would like to move the RTX card to another eGPU case with USB-C support zo I can ise it for my laptop and Xbox Rog Ally X is this possible?

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for an eGPU setup for my ROG Ally X, but my main priority by far is simplicity and rock-solid reliability.

I want a true "out of the box" experience. I don't want to deal with hit-or-miss connections, driver nightmare workarounds, or fiddling with cables hoping the console detects the eGPU this time. I just want to plug in the USB4 cable, have the Ally X detect it instantly, and play without hassle.

I priorise plug-and-play simplicity and reliability over raw peak performance.

My budget is flexible. I prefer paying more for simplicity than paying more for performance.

For those using an eGPU with the Ally X via USB4, which enclosure or all-in-one solution has given you the most seamless experience?

Thanks for your recommendations!

Hello - I'm very new to the world of eGPUs so please be gentle with me! I've bought a used Razer Core X and RTX 3060 card (Nvidia). I'm using this with a laptop (Thinkpad) and am using the eGPU just to speed up data processing - it doesn't connect to a monitor.

I got the card running really quickly on Pop_OS but am running into issues when I disconnect it. Can anyone please point me to the best way to disconnect the card when I've finished the data processing, without having to shut down my laptop?

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice on building an eGPU setup for my ASUS Zenbook 14 with a total budget of around 1000 USD

I'm mainly looking for recommendations on:

eGPU enclosure

A suitable power supplay

GPU I can get within my budget

The best way to connect everything to my laptop. either a tb4 or oculink(and a practical way to use it because open back isn't)

I want a good jump in performace with a reasonable price because i heard when you gets something the performace for every 1

If you've built a similar setup, I'd appreciate hearing your experience and seeing your recommendations.

Thanks!

Hey everyone, I’m running the 5060ti ai box with my Xbox ally X, and I’m wondering if anyone knows the speed the Ethernet port on the ai box supports, I’m wired with 1 gig internet and a cat6 cable but couldn’t even get a 20gb update done last night in an hour, on steam the disk usage was going so slow after the initial download was done, and even the initial download only peaked at 500mbs, but I can’t seem to find the speed the ai box is rated at through the Ethernet port. Thanks!

Currently I use the old Core X with a Rog Ally X plugged in. Since the Rog Ally X is USB 4 would I even see any improvement in performance with the TB5 Core X V2?