Have external GPUs ever been a real thing? (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 21:43 (3530 days ago) @ Xenos

They definitely are a thing. They actually used to be more common, but now-a-days if anyone goes down that route it is more likely for them to get something like a PCIe box that's run off of thunderbolt or USB 3 and then just put a graphics card in it. If you get thunderbolt it's honestly barely slower than what most systems would be able to handle anyway.

Not really true. Thunderbolt solutions give you a 4x slot. I think they are just now coming out with an 8x. Your graphics card generally goes in a 16x slot.

It makes a difference. So yeah, an external PCI chassis will work, but you're not going to get max performance from your card.

I have never heard of a USB 3 PCI chassis, because that would be miserable.

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