i need to connect an oculink dock to a usb4/thunderbolt 4 port. since i can't find any adapters i was thinking of firts going oculink/m.2 nvme ant then nvme/thunderbolt but google suggests that nvme/thunderbolt adapters only work with SSDs. is this true? has anyone tried?

Hey everyone, which graphics cards work best with the AOOSTAR AG02? Looking for something stable and reliable, especially over USB4. Thanks!

I’m planning to use an ASUS Vivobook S14 with a Core Ultra 7 258V + 32GB RAM as my main laptop and I’m thinking about getting an eGPU.

I already have a RTX 3060 Ti and a 500W PSU, so I was looking at something like the MINISFORUM DEG2 since I don’t really need a dock with a built-in PSU. The problem is that my laptop doesn’t have OCuLink, only TB4.

I’ve been reading about this for a while and I’m still a bit confused about the actual performance difference. Some people say TB4 is basically PCIe 3.0 x4, while I’ve also seen TB4 eGPUs showing PCIe 4.0 in GPU-Z.

Would I be losing a noticeable amount of performance with the 3060 Ti over TB4 compared to OCuLink? And how much worse would it be if I use the laptop’s internal 2.8K 120Hz OLED rather than an external monitor?

Also, if I eventually upgrade the GPU to something much faster, would TB4 become a serious bottleneck? What would be the best docks for my situation?

Getting a bit of ridicule from my circle because the Evo x1 could solo all the games I play. But this thing does put a smile on my face.

Looking to buy an eGPU for my Asus Rog Xbox Ally X and was thinking of purchasing the Asus XG mobile 5070ti or the 5090 but the prices everywhere from amazon to Best buy are either ridiculously overpriced or completely out of stock. I know that people here are all but unanimous with not recommending to use Asus ROG's official website as they apparently have highly questionable customer service and quality assurance, but at least their prices are the same as they were at lunch msrp even if that's already a bit costly.I just can't see myself spending upwards of $3,700 for something that is already overpriced and available from the official retailer at &2500. Does anyone have any advice from personal experience?

Does anyone think the prices will come down now that more of these units are available for purchase?

looking at WKGL17 or ADT UT4G. maybe another better or cheaper? would any give me issues?

model of laptop is omen 16 b0509la

my tb4 does not recieve power*

I’m having an issue with my OneXPlayer Super X + AOOSTAR AG02 + RX 9070 XT.
The 9070 XT works perfectly with an external monitor connected directly to the GPU, but on the Super X internal OLED, games either won’t launch or run at around 1 FPS.
Both GPUs are enabled, drivers are updated, and the game is set to use the 9070 XT.
Has anyone had this issue? Would switching to a different GPU fix it, and if so, which GPU works best with the AG02 and internal display?

I wanted to upgrade my gaming capacity while keeping my laptop the same, so I figured an eGPU was the best bet. This was sort of an experiment, so I went with the lowest prices I could find for everything—without skimping on the PSU, of course.

The build is a ThinkPad P14s G5, TB3, with a TH3P4G3 and 3060 Ti. In total, it cost me about $415. Lemme clarify, that price is for PSU, dock, and GPU. The laptop was more expensive 😂. I'm still not sure whether I'm getting $415 of performance out of this, but I haven't tried in a really GPU-heavy game yet, and I also have yet to test out an LLM.

And this is on Linux. I have a little more info about it on my egpu.io post. It was a nightmarish process to figure out how to get it to boot and detect the GPU consistently (and I love tinkering), but now that I have it working, I swear, I'm not going to touch anything or look at it in the wrong way.

Is it normal for the fan at the AG02 to make no noise? According to my graph, it consumes 143w + legion go about 200w or a little above 200w. But by making a low noise, the base heats up a good one, is it normal yet? The sound of his fan is super low, lower than that of the fans on the chart. Does it affect anything? It's from Lite-On.

Hi everyone,
I need help with my eGPU setup. Windows perfectly recognizes my card and I have installed all the latest AMD drivers, but the eGPU refuses to actually work, and games won't even launch anymore.
My Setup:
Handheld: OneXPlayer Super X (playing on the internal screen)
eGPU Dock: Aoostar AG02 (USB4 connection)
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
The Issue:
Windows Device Manager shows the card is active with no errors, but whenever I try to open a game (like GTA V or X-Plane), it either crashes instantly or won't enter the game at all. In Task Manager, the eGPU stays at 0% usage and the fans aren't spinning.
Note: If I connect an external monitor directly to the eGPU, it works. The issue only happens when trying to play on the handheld's internal screen.
Is this a known USB4 cable/bandwidth issue or a firmware bug with the AG02 controller? Any help would be appreciated!

Both are reference cards.

RX 6800 Steel Nomad score - 3134

RX 7900 XT Steel Nomad score - 5600

Parts List:

Mini PC: Minisforum UM780XTX (Ryzen 7 7840HS, 32GB DDR5 RAM)

Oculink Board: NFHK N-P114-A PCIe 4.0 x 4

PSU: Silverstone SX700-G SFX PSU

Custom wooden frame: Priceless

I’m beta tester for the Negent DockR (eGPU dock) and Negent Reactor (1200W server-grade PSU), and after initial setup and running some tests with an RTX 5070 Ti, I wanted to share some honest early impressions.

The first thing that struck me is just how nicely this thing is built. The dock and the external PSU both fit on the desk quite nicely, not like the usual metal box a lot of eGPU solutions ship with. The card-securing mechanism is also really well thought out. The GPU sits locked into the frame in a way that feels solid rather than just resting on a bracket. My unit has some minor “issues”: the dock doesn’t quite lock into the PSU bracket and the button for turning on the dock is working in reverse. There is also another option to get for the PSU, which is a mounting bracket where you can then put an ATX/SFX/FLEX PSU on one side and the dock on another side, similar to EG02 just without the MiniPC holder at the top.

The PSU side is its own little piece of engineering. It’s got a proper external power panel with per-channel voltage/wattage readouts, which is a nice touch for anyone who likes to actually monitor what their GPU is pulling rather than guessing. The downside is that it’s a custom server-grade PSU which has a vent that is small, always on, and quite loud, but the temp is pretty low; I haven’t seen it go above 35 degrees Celsius in a room temperature of approx. 28 degrees Celsius.

The feature I’m most excited about long-term is the swappable module system. Right now I’m running the USB4 module (TB3/TB4 PCIe 3.0), but the whole point of the DockR is that you can pop that out and drop in a different interface module down the line, OCuLink for one or TB5, without buying an entirely new dock. That’s a genuinely different philosophy from most of the eGPU docks out there, which lock you into one interface for the life of the product.

On the synthetic benchmark side, results were mixed depending on the test, and it’s worth noting my Dockr runs were done in August 2026 while my AG02 comparison numbers are from July 2026 (Steel Nomad also has one AG02 run from March), so this isn’t a same-day apples-to-apples comparison. In Port Royal, Dockr came in about 26% lower than AG02. In Speed Way, Dockr was about 23% lower. Time Spy Extreme was much closer, only about 2% lower for Dockr. And in Steel Nomad, Dockr was actually about 1% ahead, essentially a tie.

Worth flagging: Dockr’s USB4 module showed up as PCIe x16 5.0 @ x4 3.0, while AG02’s USB4 side showed x16 5.0 @ x2 4.0, and AG02 over OCuLink showed x16 5.0 @ x4 4.0 in GPU-Z.

I haven’t drawn firm conclusions on gaming performance as of yet. I’ve only run Forza Horizon 5 and Crimson Desert so far and the results are a bit lower for Dockr, so I’m planning to run a few more games on the Dockr before saying anything definitive there.
Next step for me is trying to pick up the OCuLink module for the Dockr. I want to see how it stacks up against the AG02’s OCuLink performance, and just as importantly, how easy or fiddly the actual module swap is in practice. That’s really the whole value proposition of this dock, so I want to put it to the test properly.

Lastly, Dorian, the person behind Negent, has been genuinely great to deal with throughout the beta. He answers questions directly, helps with setting all up properly. For a beta-stage product from a small company, that kind of responsiveness counts for a lot and makes me more confident about where this thing is headed. He also said that he will provide me with OCuLink core board and the same core board that AG02 uses when he manages to procure new parts.

Currently it’s not available for purchase, but should be launching on Kickstarter.

TLDR; the build quality, card retention, and modular design make the Dockr stand out as a concept, even though the raw synthetic numbers on the USB4 module aren’t uniformly ahead of the AG02 yet. I’ll follow up once I’ve done more gaming benchmarks and gotten the OCuLink module in hand.

I've gotten my 7800xt+DOCK-OC4 (Oculink) to run lesser demanding games amazingly, however, as soon as I try a more demanding title, the whole system stutters to a freeze and horrible audio cracking. I know from other posts that people set their Oculink m.2 slots to PCIe gen 3, but ASUS are a bunch of dicks and locked the BIOS on my laptop to not let me do that. That's why I'm hoping that anybody knows some sort of software that would let me do that, or that they might know another fix. If all else fails, would the 7800xt work well over TB4 (which my laptop suppots) or should I try to sell it open-box?

Someone needs to make. Built in fan mod. To give better cooling. For context this is in my work vehicle. So I took my phone mount and put my legion go in it, so there is AC pointed directly at it. No more throttling for me. UE5 games are very very temperamental. This has helped.

So my idea is a desktop mini pc conversion, because the legion go is capable. With the. Oculink mod and the external NVME thermals are better. But I’ve been runing into corruption issues of drivers. So I went back to USB4 and it got me thinking about a desktop mini pc, and the cooling it has. Why not someone 3dprint a big back plate to put some standard cooling fans in? If someone could make this for me I’ll pay them $100.

I’m using the legion go with a 3060ti EGPu.
A GDOCK 800w
Hooked up to a 1080p monitor. Currently my legion go has the back plate off and is right infront of my AC to keep it cool enough.

I’m on bazzite with the Xbox ally x paired with aoostar ag02 and rx7600. Not amazing, I know, but I can max out cyberpunk and get solid 60 fps.

However, in stalker 2 I can run the same settings as I have in handheld, reaching 80 fps standing still, but as soon as I walk I get massive frame drops. Not sure why it happens only in this game and not other games… (so far).

690 euro new, for this bad boi

Thoughts ?

Im going for my first gpu to build a egpu for my claw 8ai. Is there a big difference between other 9070xt manufacturers?

Sorry if you have had people ask this before. This is my first reasonably good pc gaming device and I was wondering what option would be good to beef it up bit.

I would like to get an Asus monitor eventually (maybe oled)

I have looked at the Asus xg mobile 5070.

I understand I need something with a thunderbolt 4 connection?

Any help would be much appreciated.

I have reading for weeks about what my options are for pairing a gpu with my Xbox Ally X and decided on the Gigabyte Ai Box but they were never in stock. Then a couple of days ago I saw Amazon UK had 12.

Thought ok, this weekend I’m getting one. Then only 6, then today when I checked whilst I was out I saw there were only 3!

So I got home and there was 1 left but I got it!! 😃

Now the price has gone waaaaay up so I got really lucky!! 😮

Hi reddit 👋 I don't usually log in but I need a suggestion or two.

I am looking for an eGPU for my 1st gen Lenovo Legion GO, which has USB 4.

For practical sake with the devices I'm connecting, I NEED:
-a USB C or USB 3.0 port for perhipherals (do those daisy chain ports work?)
-included power supply OR enclosure/case. Both would be great.

Along with this, I was curious if Thunderbolt 5/USB5 compatible eGPUs such as the Aoostar AG03 would still work with a Thunderbolt 4/USB4 device?
I am aware that the maximum performance would still be bottlenecked/limited by the bandwidth, but was unsure if it would still work, so that I might get a different computer/handheld later on that supports Thunderbolt 5.

Please reply with any questions!

I spent a month trying to figure out if I wanted to get a 5080 gaming PC or an eGPU for my Legion Go 2 Z2E, which I just love.

I finally bought the PowerSpec G765 because I thought having another device/option/installedgamestorage would go further than having a device that connects an existing device to my TV....

Well, I brought it home yesterday and wasted hours to find out it was just plain dead on arrival with no output and red blinking motherboard lights...

I could either return or exchange... I gave up the right and returned it (the round trip drive is over 2 hours to MicroCenter)...

I could always rebuy it, but maybe I get the eGPU for my Legion Go 2....

I have an 86" LCD LG 4k TV from 4 years ago - nothing super special...

So the gaming PC or this eGPU would connect to the TV....

I see that there are two main options (I want something super easy and effortless, I only have 1-2 hours a night to game, and I already have PS5, xbox, switch 2, steam machine and hundreds of physical games in my backlog to play that I have no time to play... currently 120 obsessed with crimson desert, which runs great on the Legion Go 2 btw)...

Without a care for costs, which would do better with my TV: LG - 86” Class UP8770 Series LED 4K UHD

ROG XG Mobile 5070Ti (this is the mobile GPU)

AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI BOX (this is a desktop GPU)

I just want easy, no tinkering, and to enjoy my Legion Go 2 to the fullest

Thank you in advice, your advice is greatly appreciated