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    GTX 1000 series notebooks with Thunderbolt 3 40 gbps

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mja2288, Aug 17, 2016.

  1. mja2288

    mja2288 Newbie

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    What are all the recently announced laptops that have been confirmed to have the 40 gbps Thunderbolt 3 ports? Deciding if I should buy a laptop with 1070 now or 1060, then buy an eGPU (XG Station 2) when available with either a 1070 or 1080 graphics card.
     
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    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    Don't buy a 1070 and get a 1070 or 1080 egpu, that's a pretty big waste of money for not much gain in performance. Thunderbolt eGPUs still take a bit of a performance hit, so like a 1080 over thunderbolt would not beat a 1070 by more than like 20%. Getting like a Razer Blade 1060 and then a 1080 Ti eGPU or something makes much more sense.
     
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    The 1000 series laptop GPUs are marginally inferior to their desktop counterparts. Getting an eGPU would be a waste of money, especially since you wouldn't get the full power of the eGPU over the Thunderbolt cable.

    Shoot for a laptop with at least a 1070 :D
     
    Support.2@XOTIC PC, Aug 17, 2016
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    I guess I worded my question wrong, I was deciding on either buying a 1070 notebook alone now or buying a 1060 notebook and an eGPU when available to get a better performace from the 1060 notebook.

    I was looking into getting the GL702 notebook, only seeing the VM model. By chance do you know if there will be a 1070 VS model releasing soon?
     
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    Kevin Egregious

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    The entire MSI GS series is TB3.
     
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    Currently no info on those models with a 1070.
    I did find three ASUS models (I'm assuming you want to stick with ASUS?) that have the same screen size and GPU that you want.
    http://www.xoticpc.com/custom-gamin...no_cache=true&size=13&manufacturer=22&p=clear
     
    Support.2@XOTIC PC, Aug 18, 2016
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    ETisME Notebook Guru

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    Been thinking a long time about this myself also.
    Since 1060 is the only card possible for light laptop and can run the current gen games pretty well, I am going for 1060 models.
    And when volta is released, I am probably going to get it with the egpu solution, so it would be a mobile photo editing for travelling and a volta-gen 1070-ish performance at home
     
    ETisME, Aug 20, 2016
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