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I've used a thunderbolt eGPU with a laptop before and it was good enough to put me off building a gaming rig for a few years. Most of my dev work these days has

I've used a thunderbolt eGPU with a laptop before and it was good enough to put me off building a gaming rig for a few years. Most of my dev work these days has moved to a home server or codespaces, so I could see myself getting something like these. the GPU is typically the only thing I upgrade as tech evolves faster than my upgrade cycle (eg, I went straight from ddr3 to ddr5). I could also see it being a good option for business deployments, similar to the absurdly popular Lenovo SFF PCs, especially where some but not all users might be pushing a GPU pretty hard. IT can swap out an eGPU in no time, but lose the silicon lottery with an iGPU or a laptop GPU and the entire unit needs to go back. Likewise, there's a reason no IT dept builds their own PCs. It's not that they can't, it's that a factory in China can do it faster, better, cheaper.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>I've used a thunderbolt eGPU with a laptop before and it was good enough to put me off building a gaming rig for a few years Yeah, but this is not a laptop, it's a desktop PC. This make sense for a laptop since you take it places but don't need the eGPU everywhere, but this is a desktop PC, it's not going anywhere. So why do you need an expensive eGPU on a desktop PC that doesn't go anywhere when you can just build a PC with a discrete GPU in it, saving you money and not loosing performance from the Thunderbolt bottleneck? It makes no sense. >IT can swap out an eGPU in no time Have you ever swapped the GPU in a profesional HP/Dell/Lenovo tower? It can also be done in no time. Even the water cooled ones. They're designed to be serviced quickly because time is money. They're not like your average gaming tower PC.