crunching, with an external Thunderbolt GPU?

[VirtualLarry]

This thread was in the Video card forum:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2222041

Has some pics of MSI's external GPU adaptor, using ThunderBolt as the interface to the main PC.

This could be the model for the future. Some small PC case, with a ThunderBolt hub, and multiple external ThunderBolt GPUs, or adaptor boxes like this to use PCI-E GPUs.

 

[dajeepster]

probably wouldn't be economical for multi-gpu imho... unless they get the external power supplies to be as or more efficient than the internal psu... :|

 

[Ken g6]

Could make sense for PrimeGrid - at least for current sieving projects. They really need very little bandwidth.