AKiTiO Node Titan Thunderbolt 3 External GPU Enclosure (eGPU), Aluminum, 85W Charging, up to six 4K displays, 650W PSU, Thunderbolt Cable, Compatible with Thunderbolt 3 Equipped Mac and PC

I know I need to rewire my desk but I was in a hurry. I was stuck because I don't want to upgrade to a new Mac Pro desktop mid-transition to Apple Silicon, but my stopgap upgrade of a mac Mini definitely needed a Pro graphics processor for my photography and video software, and computational tools for research and my work as a security architect. This is built to last. Solid construction, no downstream tb3 but this needs to be last on the bus as I understand it, so I have an OWC thunderbolt 3 dock and an OWC Express 4m2 NVEm pool on the other bus. It's definitely portable and will hold up in transit but mine is on my desk attached to a mac Mini 90% of the time. It works great, exceeded my expectations. Once I installed a GPU (in my case just an overpriced by $400 RX580 Pro OC) and put a Steven Universe sticker on it that was it. Ready to rock. ✌🏻

Purchased in July '23 and paired it with an AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT for use with 2019 MBP 16" and it's been working like a champ for 6 months, so far. The 85W charging has been plenty for my use case. One feature I would have appreciated is a bit of interior case lighting--the exterior logo badge is lit when the eGPU is active. My AKiTio stays to the right of the monitor, so I see the left panel of the case, which is a metal mesh, so having a lit interior would have been a nice touch. The graphics card I bought doesn't have any lighting. I may try changing the case fans in the future, but it's not a high priority. Another item I think could be helpful is a set of 4 risers for the feet to increase the exhaust area for the bottom-blowing fans (I'm using 1-1/2" ABS couplings to get about 2" of elevation.) I don't move around my eGPU enclosure, so the complaints about the top handle are not something I have experienced. Overall, so far so good.

Great construction. Very easy assembly. The only thing a buyer should know is that there's only one Thunderbolt port on this device. If you want one plug to handle all of your I/O you'll still need a Thunderbolt hub that supports daisy chaining. If you want minimal with great build quality this is the eGPU enclosure for you!

Two of them have died. RTX4070 was installed and this enclosure should have been able to support them. One enclosure worked for a month and then died. The other worked for a year. Avoid.

So I was hoping to put my older, beefy Gigabyte 980 Ti back into commission and this external GPU enclosure did just that! I'm also running Windows 11 on an LG Gram 16Z90Q (made in 2022). Great laptop by the way! I did run into issues with the Nvidia Control Panel not detecting the card despite Device Manager and GeForce Experience detecting it without issues. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I managed to fix it by reinstalling the drivers so if you run into similar issues, try that. It works perfectly now and I was able to force one of the graphics-heavy programs like Affinity Designer 2 to use the card and not my built-in graphics on my laptop via the Nvidia Control Panel. I definitely second the review mentioning hooking up a laptop cooling pad/fan and to buy a longer thunderbolt cable. The cool thing about the card was that it was charging my laptop, which is another thing to note. The case is also quite heavy with my card in it! The instructions were clear enough for me to figure out how to get my card in there although I do wish they had allowed the side to be opened due to how difficult it is to insert your card otherwise. I docked a star solely for that reason. Sorry Akitio! Absolutely recommend this! It'll help any laptop struggling with graphics rendering and it's just so cool how far technology has come to allow laptops to be able to use external GPUs now!

If you have a USB-4 port on your laptop instead of a thunderbolt, I recommend this. I'm using this with a GPD Win Max 2, and it seems to utilize the GPU as best as USB4 and Thunderbolt 3 can manage together. The included TB3 cable (or any TB3 cable for that matter) isn't enough for the full bandwidth. I recommend a USB4 cable instead. I purchased a USB4 240W Anker cable, and it works great, it maxes out the bandwidth at 3000MIB/s. I also really like the design of this case. It's significantly lighter than the Razer Core X, and the way you remove the GPU is superior in my opinion. The top comes off instead of the sliding out with the Razer Core X. It also has a retractable handle, which is really neat for portability. Overall, This thing is worth $280. I've only used it for a day and I'll update only if something goes wrong with it.

I was overwhelmed with this size, I was replacing a gigabyte Auros so I was taken back. To be honest I have no idea why they chose to make the chassis as large as it is, but it is built very well. Mine only had two rails, so newer cards that need 3 may need to research more. Since it's so big, I was a bit disappointed it doesn't have any IO, so you will need to put a hub on your laptop for your keyboard/mouse etcetera. TLDR: It's big, Solid, has 2 rails for power, and no extra IO

came in fresh new packaging, construction seems sturdy so far Edit: I have now been using this for 5.5 months, with an RTX 3060ti, almost without an issue. For context, I'm using a Lenovo yoga 7i laptop, with an Intel Evo 12k processor. I've been running games like Baldurs gate 3 and horizon zero dawn on high settings. Little to no lag at all. Only issue is when I restart my computer while the device is plugged in, my laptop will attempt to use it as a boot drive, which obviously isn't going to work lol.