Good to hear we isolated the disconnection issues to the 2m cable. Unfortunately I don't have a good recommendation for 2m cable. I've used AKiTiO, ASUS, and Razer without issues but people's experience have been different. You may have to try until there's a good one. You can also go with the Apple .8m option if that's long enough.
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@itsage, yes it’s awsome. I have now set it up with the short TB3 cable and performance is really great, allthough I only get 1700/1600 in CUDA-z. What can cause this slow speed?
I would prefer a 2m cable of some sort. Another option is to buy a long displayport cable. Do you know what the limit of a displayport cable length is?
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.The lower bandwidth is due to either an external SSD (attached to Gaming Box) running concurrently or a firmware that limits throughput. You can flash the H2D firmware that allow full Thunderbolt 3 enclosure throughput which is 2,6XX/2,2XX for Nvidia cards.
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2020 14" MSI Prestige 14 EVO [11th,4C,G] + RTX 3080 @ 32Gbps-TB4 (AORUS Gaming Box) + Win10 2004 [build link]
AIB are definitely better in the noise dept. My Asus Strix 2070 OC is basically silent.
LG Gram 17 | Sonnet Breakaway Box 550 | Asus Strix RTX 2070 OC Edition | Win 10 Pro 20H2 + Fedora 32 Dual Boot
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2018 17" LG Gram 17 [8th,4C,U] + RTX 2070 @ 32Gbps-TB3 (Sonnet Breakaway 550) + Win10 [build link]