Ive had crashes browing reddit sites, the intel community site, and Attached. So while I have a working system now, I am not quite satisfied with the end result. 150 (Official Build) (64-bit) N/A Most of my crashes have been at and their various support pages (e.g., chatting with support about the crashes). The network through the eGPU is rock stable, as is the USB. I did not have any of the other problems reported. Even on idle the Nvidia card sits at 55 degrees (C) with the blowers active and noisy. Unfortunately, while stable, the systems runs hot.
This includes the famous PCIE Link State Power Management that is listed everywhere as "the" solution. Upon eGPU Start-Up (Razer Core X Non-Chroma, ASUS ROG G752VL, MSI GeForce RTX 2070S Ventus OC BV) Thunderbolt 3 Just got a Razer Core X, plugged it in and it works fine, watched several videos on how to put the MSI RTX 2070 Super into it (first time installing a GPU), fairly sure I have it in there right, but when I start it, the GPU fans are. Research showed that this was probably related to power management issues, and after lots of fiddling this turned out to be true. Disclaimer: I am not a hardcore gamer so I am learning this from scratch. It took me quite a while to stabilize it so I thought Id share what I found. Also, graphics performance was up-and-down except when gaming when it was OK. I bought my eGPU (Core X Chroma) after a lot of research, most of it based on this forum. The laptop is completely unresponsive, keyboard lights static, no network, just dead. 2.) Download the Visualizer, at this point you should close Razer Synapse as it will cause the visualizer to not work at all.
Than began a frustrating period with hard freezes, sometimes on boot, sometimes after an hour. NET Framework 4.5 and the Razer Chroma SDK and install them both. The initial setup greeted me with random blue screens and no performance at all, as measured by 3DMark.
Thunderbolt cable: Belkin, 2m, 40 Gbit, Active.
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