Gigabyte unveils liquid-cooled external enclosure packing an RTX 3080/3090

[midian182]

In brief: Do you have a Thunderbolt 3-enabled laptop that’s underpowered in the gaming department? If so, Gigabyte could have the perfect solution: a liquid-cooled external graphics enclosure packing an RTX 3080 or RTX 3090.

Gigabyte says the Aorus RTX 3090/3080 Gaming Box is the world’s first water-cooled external graphics solution, the same claim it made about the enclosure it launched last year that features an RTX 2080 Ti—though the company is likely referring to the box itself, rather than specific models.

The Aorus Gaming Box features a cooling system that integrates a large copper plate, a 240mm aluminum radiator, and two 120mm fans. “With an optimized pump and water block, it provides the most efficient water flow and cooling performance at a lower noise level,” writes Gigabyte. It also boasts RGB lighting, two USB 3.0 Type-A ports, a single USB 2.0 port, a GbE LAN port, three DisplayPort connectors, and an HDMI port.

The caveat here is that the box is big—very big; it actually resembles some Mini-ITX PCs. You’re not going to want to take this on trips away from home, but if you have a laptop with Thunderbolt 3 and want awesome gaming performance without buying a desktop, it could be a good option.

The other issue will doubtlessly be the price. The Aorus Gaming Box with the RTX 2080 Ti currently sells for an eye-watering $2,272, so this latest model will doubtlessly be a wallet crusher when it arrives.

No word yet on when the Aorus RTX 3090/3080 Gaming Box will be available. Considering that the cards are impossible to find without venturing onto eBay right now, expect it to land sometime next year.

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[QuantumPhysics]

It’s in absolute disaster what happened with 2080 Ti owners who traded in their cards before they actually got their hands on a 3080.

If you’re willing to spend this much on a 2080 TI in an accelerator box - you might as well just go on eBay and buy a 3090 at the scalper price.

Chances are: most buyers are just going to take the card out of the Accelerator box.

 

[ypsylon]

Whoever has that amount of $ to buy first a laptop and then separate enclosure with VGA which will be very under-preforming overall, then surely person in question can also splash 3000-3500$ for that kind of VGA already inside the laptop (or build nice desktop, because you won't haul that enclosure around the World while traveling anyway).

Considering how limited is the bandwidth of TB3 connection + overhead: What's the point of those enclosures?

 

[MikitaM]

Whoever has that amount of $ to buy first a laptop and then separate enclosure with VGA which will be very under-preforming overall, then surely person in question can also splash 3000-3500$ for that kind of VGA already inside the laptop (or build nice desktop, because you won't haul that enclosure around the World while traveling anyway).

Considering how limited is the bandwidth of TB3 connection + overhead: What's the point of those enclosures?

Complete waste of gpu power and money. Considering that TB bottlenecked even much much weaker cards like GTX 1070 / RX Vega 56/64, RTX 3080/90 would be total overkill, no - OVERKILL. Moreover - laptops w/o gpu are generally ultrabooks with 5-28W apus.. Those have raw cpu power at such limitation around desktop Celeron. Even putting (severe!) TB bottleneck aside, would anyone pair Celeron with RTX 3090?

 

[MikitaM]

Really, you can assemble DAN A4 with something like 5800X + RX 6800 / RTX 3060ti and just devastate any laptop setup with such RTX 3090 gpu box. And it won't be bigger, btw.