Bought as part of a new Mac setup. I’ve had owned four Macs, three of which eventually died due to overheated / failed solder graphics cards. When the 2012 iMac failed at 7 years old I evaluated options for replacing it - a year or two old IMac, new 6-core iMac, 2018 6-core Mac mini. Settled on the latter, as the mini has great expansion options with thunderbolt effectively putting pcie externally.

After lots of digging in the forums on egpu.io I settled on this enclosure. Looked like a quality build, high PSU capacity so that it has long term value in being able to take newer graphics cards when needed. I didn’t want additional USB onboa...view more Bought as part of a new Mac setup. I’ve had owned four Macs, three of which eventually died due to overheated / failed solder graphics cards. When the 2012 iMac failed at 7 years old I evaluated options for replacing it - a year or two old IMac, new 6-core iMac, 2018 6-core Mac mini. Settled on the latter, as the mini has great expansion options with thunderbolt effectively putting pcie externally.

After lots of digging in the forums on egpu.io I settled on this enclosure. Looked like a quality build, high PSU capacity so that it has long term value in being able to take newer graphics cards when needed. I didn’t want additional USB onboard, and wanted a generous enclosure to take bigger cards.

And it is big. It’s a monster. Next to the Mac mini on the desktop it does look, erm, chunky. That said it looks good with some design flair in it, and is *really* well put together. Very easy to open up and no problems at all in putting a double width Radeon RX580 in. Performance is very good, no hassle with a Mac just plug’n’play.

Only complaint is that the supplied “passive” TB3 cable is short (necessary for 40Gbps speeds unless you buy an Active cable, much pricier), but I can live with that.

Overall - very happy. No regrets, will give me a high performance, upgradeable Mac setup for game-playing / 3D modelling on both OSX and Windows.

Recently bought together with an RTX 2070 EVGA Ultra FTW3. The graphics card is huge yet fits perfectly. I manually overclocked and adjusted fan curve using EVGA Precision PX1. Both 3D mark benchmark Time Spy and Fire Strike Extreme indicate a graphics score similar to an overclocked GTX 1660Ti(desktop) (8352 and 8215 respectively). I set a linear fan curve ranging from 20%/20°C to 100%/55°C due to the GPU temperature never rises high enough to utilise its cooling capacity (the card produces negligible noise using its default fan curve, it tends to decrease performance). The final overclocked set up (Memory clock + 1000MHz, Core clock +...view more Recently bought together with an RTX 2070 EVGA Ultra FTW3. The graphics card is huge yet fits perfectly. I manually overclocked and adjusted fan curve using EVGA Precision PX1. Both 3D mark benchmark Time Spy and Fire Strike Extreme indicate a graphics score similar to an overclocked GTX 1660Ti(desktop) (8352 and 8215 respectively). I set a linear fan curve ranging from 20%/20°C to 100%/55°C due to the GPU temperature never rises high enough to utilise its cooling capacity (the card produces negligible noise using its default fan curve, it tends to decrease performance). The final overclocked set up (Memory clock + 1000MHz, Core clock + 100MHz) passed both TS and FSE stress tests and had never crashed during continuous hours of gameplay.
Cons: After inserting the graphics card the weight seems overwhelming. Never want to move it once settled.
Overall: Satisfied. Encountered a ~23% performance drop using the internal LCD.

Everything works seamlessly out of the box. Only downside is the noisy 120mm fan on the side which i replaced with Noctua 120mm. Everything works seamlessly out of the box. Only downside is the noisy 120mm fan on the side which i replaced with Noctua 120mm.

a bit bigger than I expected but also a lot quieter than I was anticipating.
Very happy with the product and with PB Tech's fast shipping. Cheers! a bit bigger than I expected but also a lot quieter than I was anticipating.
Very happy with the product and with PB Tech's fast shipping. Cheers!

Works great, literal plug and play setup. Used with my 2020 MacBook pro 13" to speed up rendering times in Blender and make DaVinci Resolve snappier. Works a treat with my old Sapphire Radeon RX480 Nitro+. Now have it set up on my desk with a second monitor plugged in, to charge the MacBook when I'm working at home. I use a slightly longer 3rd party thunderbolt 3 cable than the tiny one supplied. VERY occasional glitches, probably more MacOS than this specific device from the looks. Works great, literal plug and play setup. Used with my 2020 MacBook pro 13" to speed up rendering times in Blender and make DaVinci Resolve snappier. Works a treat with my old Sapphire Radeon RX480 Nitro+. Now have it set up on my desk with a second monitor plugged in, to charge the MacBook when I'm working at home. I use a slightly longer 3rd party thunderbolt 3 cable than the tiny one supplied. VERY occasional glitches, probably more MacOS than this specific device from the looks.