Last summer there were rumors Apple was working on a Thunderbolt 3 Display with built-in eGPU. Anticipation rose as Apple discontinued the 27' Thunderbolt Display in July 2016. The October 'Hello Again' event brought new MacBook Pro laptops with Thunderbolt 3 connectivity but sadly Apple called it quits on making displays.

What's a Mac and eGPU enthusiast to do? Microphone not working on skype for mac. Mounting a full size graphics card to the back of a display seemed reasonable enough.

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So I got after it. What you're seeing is an RX 470 in an enclosure mounted on the back of an LG 34' ultrawide monitor through a VESA adapter. It took me some time to find the right VESA adapter for this purpose. The key was something with a slim profile that would also allow sliding in and out of place.

This was the perfect match. I was ready to drill holes on the backside of the inner enclosure in order to make the VESA bracket work. I soon found out I didn't need to drill at all. The mounting holes for the boards go all the way to the backside. I was able to align the VESA bracket mounting holes to the two existing holes on the. I also borrowed 2 mounting screws from the PCIe board.

Installing the other VESA bracket on the back of the LG monitor was no big deal. It's universal sizing and all went in nicely using the supplied mounting screws in the kit. Once these two steps were done, I could slide the in and out of this VESA carrier with ease. I put two more screws on top to secure this eGPU backpack in place. The next step was to route the cables to the right components.

This is a Apple Mac Mini (Mid/Late) 2011 Server Edition, 2.0GHz Core i7, 8GB LPDDR3 SDRAM, with Qty (2) 500GB Hard Drives a fresh install of macOS Sierra (or another OS of your choice), and an Apple Power Cord.

I'm using a Dell DA-2 power brick connected to a modified cable to supply power to both the AKiTiO enclosure and the RX 470 graphics card. An Apple Thunderbolt 2 cable connects the eGPU to a mid 2011 Mac mini. Last but not least, a DisplayPort cable runs from the RX 470 to the LG monitor. Similar to my earlier build using this, everything works as if the external graphics card was an integral component. As a matter of fact, I wrote this post as well as edited the photos and video on this machine. To be happy with eGPU and to be able to use it for what you want is the main thing 🙂 That is good to know that RX470 8Gb nitro+ works with macOS 10.12.3 on TB2 macs.

I just tried again to make my RX470 to work with and together with my 2016 MBP but had no luck. AMD cars simply do not work in with TB3 macs with macOS 10.12.3. Installed back then my gtx970 to and got Luxmark score 12101 even though my cpu is just two core i5-6360U. Have to be satisfied to that as with out gtx970 the score was just 2308, so with eGPU it is over 5 times better now! Damn I wish I found I way to use my RX470 too as it seems to be a much better looking card, full enclosured with back plate and everything but I guess I will have to just sell it soon. That was quick!

(thanks for the fast reply). Good to know on the GTX 1060 card. Unless Steam is working for OSX (Ghost Recon Wildlands), I will most likely use my setup for daily office/coding use with occasional gaming. I recall from your other build thread (R9 Fury w/MacMini mid 2011) you mentioned the dual core 2.5Ghz cpu becomes a bottleneck. I'm thinking the 1060 will look very nice on display, but I might be paying more for Horsepower I'll likely never see. Although I did hear rumor of Apple maybe building a newer MacMini.

If the rumor comes to fruition, I'm hoping it has a couple of the thunderbolt 3 ports at the least and an i7 option. That would compliment the 1060 very well.

I want to use my mid-2011 iMac as a secondary display for my Windows PC. • My features a 1st gen Thunderbolt port, running on macOS Sierra • My has a Mini DisplayPort, and is running on windows 10.

My main concern is that (if I understand right), the 'Mini DisplayPort Source to Thunderbolt Monitor' is with any kind of cable, and after lots of googling I haven't found a case where it worked. I know that there are several related answers for this topic, but there are lots of caveats (OS compatibility, Mini DisplayPort to Thunderbolt port limitations), and I'm still not absolutely sure about some details: - Is it possible? - What kind of cable do I need to buy? - Do I need to use some specific software like AirDisplay?

This is not possible using Apple's hardware and OS. As per You need the following to use Target Display Mode: A Mac notebook or desktop with a Mini DisplayPort or Thunderbolt port.