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    Acer Predator 17 and external GPU

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by saturnotaku, Mar 17, 2017.

  1. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    With MicroCenter clearing out the Skylake versions of these laptops ($1099 for GTX 1060, $1399 for GTX 1070), these might be the cheapest enthusiast-grade notebooks you can buy that have both a decent internal GPU and Thunderbolt 3. Has anyone tried using this system with a Razer Core or similar eGPU enclosure? What have your results been?
     
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  2. sicily428

    sicily428 Donuts!! :)

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    for the egpu you need a laptop with new drivers/firmware for thunderbolt3 port. do you know what is last version of drivers for that predator.
    http://community.acer.com/t5/Predator-Laptops/Thunderbolt-3-External-gpu/m-p/443022
    http://community.acer.com/t5/Predat...derbolt-3-Firmware-Update-2-Parts/td-p/436984
    http://community.acer.com/t5/Predator-Laptops/thunderbolt-port-inop/m-p/483162
     
    sicily428, Mar 17, 2017
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