Gigabyte was out in force at Pax East, showcasing its gaming chops with Aorus-branded desktops and laptops. However, the PCs weren’t the only tasty technological treat Gigabyte displayed: The company quietly revealed an Aorus external graphics dock with a GTX 1070 inside.
The new Aorus GTX 1070 Thunderbolt External Graphics Box runs over a single Thunderbolt 3 connection, and it’s a complete departure from the Gigabyte GPU dock we saw last year at CES. Gone is the tall, upright, handled, awkward chassis; it’s been replaced with a small, sleek, and impressively light case. The new External Graphics Box will also ship with a Gigabyte GTX 1070 mini GPU already inside, and the dock itself is only slightly larger than the graphics card.
Furthermore, the weak 250W power supply from the previous iteration has been replaced with a more powerful 450W PSU, which is plenty of juice for even the most top-end graphics cards (assuming they can fit inside the tiny dock). The new dock also features two USB 3.0 ports and RGB LED lighting.
Pricing and availability for the Aorus GTX 1070 External Graphics Box is unknown, as this new device hasn’t seen the light of day until now. However, judging by the fact that it was running a demo in complete working order, it may not be long until we see it hit the market.
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SIZE: W96×D210mm×H162mm (the size of AKiTiO Thunder2, Thunder3 are W76mm×D233mm×H149mm )
PSU: Internal 450W
GPU: GeForce® GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC 8G
Price: ?
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WOAH this looks like my dream eGPU. Compact, simple, doesn't look like from space (i am looking at you MSI). I just hope i can fit inside some future mini RX480
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.This has been shown off at Computex, looking very nice!
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Look at this link http://www.gdm.or.jp/crew/2017/0530/208809
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.thats awesome looks great but does it only take gigabyte cards or it will take any mini card?
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.Just received reply from Aorus ANZ TEAM, egpu box is releasing within 2 months.
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.Introducing the brand new #AORUS GTX 1070 Gaming Box. Graphics card included here 😉 pic.twitter.com/34tJJK1Qi5
— AORUS (@AorusOfficial) June 1, 2017
Price is rumored to be $599,
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Introducing the brand new #AORUS GTX 1070 Gaming Box. Graphics card included here 😉 pic.twitter.com/34tJJK1Qi5
— AORUS (@AorusOfficial) June 1, 2017
Price is rumored to be $599,
I suppose without any gpu
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.With GTX 1070 is what the tweet said.
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Given 1070s seem to go for about $400 these days, $599 seems a pretty good price, $200 of the amount for the enclosure is pretty good going.
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