I've tried a combo of external display, and also driving the internal display (all in Bootcamp) and it works quite well in both circumstances!Īs another note, I also have in my possession a Max-Q Dell 7577 laptop to compare against. I also bought a Cable Matters 2M TB3 cable, and tucked the Aorus Box out of sight, this helps mask the industrial sound the little fans in the box make and worked perfect.

The MBP was warm, but less so than when running a game off the iGPU. Overall my dBa meter said I was around 42.5 dB holding the meter just a little above the MBP trackpad (the Aorus Box was just behind the MBP).

The Aorus Box has kind of an industrial sound to it, which isn't super pleasant, but ok. Thermals and noise: The MBP itself just has a very quiet fan running, even after 1 hour session of Doom (I played it the most since I was having too much fun). Overall, most titles were easily above 60FPS on the highest settings.Civ 6 was the most demanding, but it tends to struggle late game on most devices and is more CPU limited, but I was still north of 30FPS at 1440P ultra settings zoomed out. I had seen a review on the Aorus Box with a laptop running a i7-7500U processor that stated they couldn't get much above 35 FPS in BF1, so I'm not sure the reasons why it works so well on the MBP, but perhaps because it's a 28-watt processor that keeps a much higher base clock? I only played for 10 minutes, but it was working awesome. I was actually shocked to find that BF1 ran at 1440P/Ultra at well north of 60FPS. I plug the eGPU in the second I see the swirly dots on boot.Īfter one night, I tested the following titles: Rise of the Tomb Raider Doom (2016) Hitman (new one) Civ 6 Battlefield 1 Dishonored 2 However, I was on the 1709 version.I did a clean install of 1703 (Anniversary Edition) and hotplug worked great. On first bootcamp into Windows, I could not get the eGPU to be recognized using the hotplug method. I haven't done extensive testing though in MacOS. Wasn't as clear as the eGPU guide made it out to be. Took a bit of effort to get up and running in MacOS.

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