Razer Core X Aluminum External GPU Enclosure (eGPU): Compatible with Windows & MacOS Thunderbolt 3 Laptops, NVIDIA /AMD PCIe Support, 650W PSU, Mercury White

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Pros

This one seems to have the best build quality and easiest to replace the psu later if i ever want to. I've had no problems running this case with an rtx 2060 video card, it appears to provide adequate power and cooling. No other complaint.

It has a nice esthetic. This is not a criticism of razer's product, just a technical gotcha warning. Purchased from razer. Passmark, cinebench and heaven.

Intel nuc supports multiple video ports and the system (perhaps the driver stack) treats the thunderbolt as the primary port for boot-up. Also, i have this connected to a 4 port displayport kvm for dual monitors. W per pcie connector to function.

Cons

Needless to say, very disappointed with this thing overall. This product is unusable and will cause you massive headaches. It's so terrible it's actually broken other peripherals.

In catalina, the ethernet interface reproducibly stops working after a minute or so. The usb ports in the back intermittently work with my razer blackwidow keyboard.

Refresh screen, enter form details, enter same details after asking for an agent, wait in queue and get timed out when the timer runs out. It's incredibly frustrating. Contacted razer support only to find out that this seller is not authorized so warr... Read More

This is by far the strangest driver bug i've ever seen. Intermittently has issues on startup with windows 10 where the driver can't be loaded. Tried uninstalling the updates and disabling task scheduler on updates.

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Quality

I've included before and after synthetic benchmark results as well as images of what device manager and task manager look like ... Read More

Only complaint is the cost of gpu's today, which has nothing to do with the value of this product.

Not anymore with the egpu in between the macbook and the monitor.

Great build quality but the case fan and psu fans are both far too loud for my liking.

Packaging/appearance

It was easy enough to remove the bracket from the evga card and dremel a few mm.

Than you’ll have to turn off the egpu until after the razer drivers are loaded than turn the egpu back on.

Performance is better when only using the radeon adrenaline but then the vega m isn’t recognized at all, and performance sucks ... Read More

Trying to figure out best method of managing drivers, as it seems i can’t install the dell/intel/amd drivers (they abandoned su... Read More

Competitiveness

Works fairly well with my 2017 (non touchbar) macbook pro for bootcamp.

The good- i've only played factorio on it, but it went from running at 12-ish fps without it, to 60 with it, so huge win there.

Also if you’re careless when buying a full-size gpu it may not fit in the enclosure.

My hp spectre, a few intel nucs, a dell xps, and some other hardware all have random issues with thunderbolt docks, vga passthr... Read More

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This product had a total of 1,905 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 10 2023.