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Apple Macbook Pro + nVidia Maximum = Happy Reduser

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The capabilities of the Maximus will be highly restricted due to Thunderbolt only utilizing 4x lanes of PCI-e. Due to this limitation I believe you will not see a significant performance gain over other cheaper externally seated graphics cards. Better to use a RR card IMO. The good news is that Thunderbolt will gain bandwidth over time and eventually will scale up to 100 Mb/s. If and when we ever see new MacPro's they will perhaps have higher bandwidth optical thunderbolt ports but it will be sometime till we see this in laptops.

-noel
 
Maximus over Thunderbolt sounds like a daft idea. Do you have any sources for this info? Besides, easy 4K editing on a laptop has been a reality for a couple of years now.
 
N_Villers said:
other cheaper externally seated graphics cards

-noel
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can you please post examples of externally seated graphic cards that would make it for a better machine???


thanks....
dq
 
N_Villers said:
Not without an external thunderbolt enclosure which to my knowledge are not shipping yet.
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Several weeks from now, you will have options. But don't expect too much from them until the hardware on the computer side gets better.
 
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