Cube Enclosure - Vendor Support Thunder eGPU

Hi,

I found a link over at techinferno that there was a new thunderbolt enclosure on the market. I had a little browse over their options and it is indeed interesting.

The product is made by a company called one stop systems and they seem to primarily sell pci-e expansion devices.

They have a new product called CUBE/CUBE2/CUBE3 which are all external desktop enclosures supporting amongst other things, expresscard/thunderbolt connectivity.

Now I did a little more digging on their website and they appear to be sell a product called GPU CUBE which is the CUBE packaged with a GTX 680.

I know of no other thunderbolt enclosure vendors supporting GPU's in their enclosures. So I think these guys are the first ones doing it.

GPU CUBE

Now it will be interesting if they actually do provide full product support for eGPU.

 

GPU CUBE Video Appliance | MaxExpansion.com
1555$ lol... more overpriced crap. the case must be made from gold.

 

I checked out the link and found the expansion case by itself is only $595 so they are tacking on a $960 premium on the GTX 680.

They also sell the GTX 680 separately for $650. So they are charging a premium for the two products combined.

Probably not justified if all you do is game on it but I can see if it is used as an appliance like its intended application some companies might want to purchase it.

It certainly is cheaper than some of the other GPU appliances I have seen like workstation blades.

 

It's certainly cheaper and it's certainly not comparable.

 

the good news is that supports a GTX 680 which is a large and higher power consumption card. but for 600$ they are making at least 200% profits. and if you game or not that is not an issue, the final use of an item doesn't define it's price. it's extremely overpriced.only stupid companies or people would buy such a product. TH05 ftw.

 

At least these guys actually go out and say graphics cards are supported with their product, unlike some (looking at you sonnet).

 

that would be stupid. it's like saying that an usb port supports specified devices. it's thunderbolt and pci-e, virtually all you can fit will work. all you need to do is to provide power. you can't expect to run 200W hardware on a 50W psu. that's common sense.

 

Almost every other company pretends like graphics cards won't automagically work. Just saying it's nice to see a company realizing how these thunderbolt enclosures are best paired with graphics card. That is all.

 

sure because no one smart will ever buy such a device when they can buy a similar one that works the same or even better and costs 10 times less.

 

I fail to see how a GPU expansion blade for blade systems is not comparable to a GPU expansion enclosure. In my mind they are highly comparable. Being they serve exactly the same purpose.

Except the TH05 has been pulled from the market and is no longer available, with the company manufacturing it virtually disappearing. I'm aware that there is the possibility of there being a TH04, however I am not holding my breath.

In my experience when dealing with a real business need or a commercial deployment support is paramount. I would be reasonably happy with a TH05 at home but if I were to deploy something for a client like a CGI studio I'd go with support even if that meant paying 200% markup.

I agree with EpicBlob, it is nice to see a vendor provide support for eGPU's. It is one step in the right direction for mainstream eGPU.

 

Well how is it comparable? It's not comparable in price, performance, nor portability. I actually don't even know how you want to hook the rack to your laptop efficiently. As far as I know GPU blades were developed for cloud gaming/rendering services like gaikai or onlive. IMHO you could compare it to a GPU-Cluster aswell.

 

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