>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, i

>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.