Vidock diy thunderbolt

Was thinking about the same thing, and see if you can get an nvidia card with CUDA working to possible boost rendering and exporting.

Has anyone tried this? I am thinking of buying both products but would like to be assured that they are actually compatible.

The problem with this is the the express card slot has only around the same band width as around a single PCIE lane and then you add in an extra converter to change the Express card to thunderbolt which will slow it down again and I think it will just throttle even a very low end graphics card anyway. Wait for a thunder bolt one it will have a reasonable band width.

From calling and emailing these are some things I found out so far:

They say PCIe 4x is similar to the thunderbolt bandwidth. But no one knows the power on how much a thunderbolt can really handle, no one has been able to test this yet not even them, the only thing they recently received for testing is the adapter for thunderbolt. Had talked to a technician from a distribution of Sonnet Technologies.

pre-orders have started and shipments going to happen in Q2/3 as stated by village instruments.

Vi-dock was stating considerable boosts in performance with thunderbolt found on their forums: https://www.facebook.com/VillageViDock?sk=wall

Do you mean the vidock thunderbolt or the sonnet express card adapter? also I did some research Sonnet has a pcie adapter as well for thunderbolt.

This is great news for all 13 inch macbook users because this means that we can actually game on these macbooks! Thanks for the news EpicBlob!  

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