eGPU in El Capitan

[Rominator]

Up and running, thanks to Netkas !



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[dandu]

It works for me too (without netkas )

[netkas]

You both are late  , check screenshot carefully - http://netkas.org/?p=1399

[Rominator]

indeed.

Wonder why yours says "Yosemite" in giant letter instead of El Capitan?

[netkas]

Localization issue, many had that with beta1.

[RastaFabi]

Seem like Apple does not want us to use eGPUs...
Currently running El Capitan GM (upgraded from my Yosemite eGPU installation) on my MacBook Pro, but I'm not able to enable my NVIDEA card in the Akitio-Box.
Every PCI-tunneling attribute is set. Even the web driver is installed (tried both as they are not necessary for my GPU), but my system keeps resetting the "nvda_drv=1" boot argument from NVRAM. I also tried setting it in com.apple.boot.plist, but it's ignored on boot.
I thought about booting from Clover enabling the setting with it's config.plist, but since El Captain I can't boot to Clover anymore (already reinstalled) through rEFInd works just fine so it's not about ESP booting.
The NVDAStartup.kext refuses to load everyday I tried, while the IONDRVSupport.kext loads.
I tried the automated attempt of the GitHub project (https://github.com/goalque/automate-eGPU) as well as doing all on my own.
Running out of ideas... Anybody has an idea or managed to use eGPU?

Solved!! While writing this from my iPad I installed the OS to another partition (not updating) and there everything works fine (still no Clover).
You WILL need a beta driver to succeed; for easy automated install download the script I've linked and run it the following way:

Code:

# cd ~/Downloads/automate-eGPU-master
# sudo ./automate-eGPU.sh -url http://us.download.nvidia.com/tYGrxreBnE8b89jZ0VysebeSwZJehZTa/WebDriver-346.03.01b07.pkg

[mysticalos]

clover, or any boot loader requires research and new understanding of security measures and patching process for 10.11. probably need to update a few things in config because a straight upgrade from 10.10 config won't be enough. Although those answers you'll find elsewhere.

[RastaFabi]

clover, or any boot loader requires research and new understanding of security measures and patching process for 10.11. probably need to update a few things in config because a straight upgrade from 10.10 config won't be enough. Although those answers you'll find elsewhere.

Thanks but actually I didn't even came that far. the Clover GUI did not load. nor did it mount he EFI while installing. I downgraded to an earlier version and it worked again.

[Rominator]

Perfect !



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[level5wizard]

Question?

Can any of you lead me to the best way to enable my eGPU via thunderbolt on my Macbook Pro?

here is what I have:

-2014 Macbook Pro
-AKiTIO thunder box 2
-PCIE 16x to 16x Powered Flexible Riser Extender Cable with Molex
-EVGA Geforce GTX 780 ti
-Corsair RM450 CPU

thanks

[Rominator]

The powered riser is a bad idea.

Sadly your best bet is to bend or cut the chassis.

For 780Ti you need the Nvidia Web Drivers.

I am guessing that the Corsair is a PSU?

You will need either a paperclip or a PLEX switch for it.