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hey how's it gone Dave 2d here so I don't play for tonight very often if I'm playing games at all it's usually overwatch but on the MacBook there's no overwatch client at least not a native one so the game that I play the most on my MacBook is actually fortnight but there's a problem it runs really poorly on their best MacBook Pro so this is their 15-inch 2017 model Radeon pro 560 it's decked out but it just runs really poorly at really low settings you can get near 60 frames per second but there's a lot of stutter there's stutter when you jump out of the bus there's starter when you're in combat it's just not a very good gaming experience I don't know max aren't ideal for gaming anyways but for tonight isn't a particularly demanding game it just still runs really poorly on the MacBook Pro but then this came in the mail this is the gigabyte gaming box it's their new external GPU built specifically for MacBooks and it cranks up the graphical power of your Thunderbolt 3 equipped MacBook Pro so it'll work with the 15-inch the 13-inch and even the iMac on the 15-inch model it'll bump it up by like double on the 13-inch it will bump it up even more depending on the 13-inch model you have so this box is literally the smallest external GPU of ever used it's running an Rx 580 and because of the new Mac OS 10 point 13 point for the connection is really easy to set up it's literally plug-and-play you plug it in there's no setup there's no drivers there's no reboot even it just works right off the bat when you connect it a few seconds later and icon appears at the top of the screen saying that an external GPU is connected and that's it and when it's connected you get a very significant improvement in performance for something like Fortnight so before because the framerate spiked because it's actually very difficult to play properly in fortnight but now with the gaming box you can get well over 60 frames per second on an external monitor now if I tweak the settings a bit I could keep viewing distance maxed out while keeping all the visual fluff down and I could still float around 70 to 80 frames per second one thing to keep in mind though fortnight does run better in Windows games in general are just better optimized for Windows and even for a huge developer like epic the Mac OS client has lower frame rates than the Windows client with the same kind of hardware now obviously this isn't for everyone if you have a gaming laptop or a gaming desktop then you don't need any of this stuff to play for a night or any game for that matter but if your Mac user if you're kind of required to use it for work or if you fur Mac OS this is a very viable option it goes for six hundred dollars you get the enclosure the GPU a carrying case and all the cables and stuff and the power supply in here is 450 watts so it can easily handle charging your macbook pro while it's connected even the 15 inch one and it's also a big enough power supply that if you wanted to in the future you could probably upgrade the GPU provided that that new GPU fit in here so a few other things to note Mac OS supports multiple external GPUs so if your device has enough lanes like the 15-inch MacBook Pro this thing can handle two external GPUs the other thing I'm seeing is that there's no bootcamp support I don't know if it's coming I hope it is but at launch we're not seeing official support and we're also not seeing the ability to use the built-in laptop display and this took me a while to figure out it's right in the documentation but if you don't have an external monitor plugged into that external GPU this setup won't work right now it does require it the other thing is that there's no nvidia card support so if you want to swap this thing out with an nvidia card it won't work at least not officially there's work around some stuff like that but if you want easy mode it's got to be an AMD card now there's one other issue that's a little more prominent it's the fact that software support is relatively limited right now this still does not work with final cut so that's apples video editing program this connection does not work in final cut and I'm also having issues getting this to work in Adobe Premiere it'll load up but the moment I drop in footage there's an error now I am pretty confident that over time the support is going to improve quite a bit but it's just kind of weird to see Apple put out an official release for this thing while still being the kind of half-baked for a lot of their services so a couple other things to note the noise levels on this thing are really quiet obviously depends on how close you keep this box to you but at 2 or 3 feet away it's a very comfortable noise level and I also think that the value of this $600 box is not bad like a lot of external GPU cases are quite expensive we've seen some cases that are like five six hundred bucks just for the case itself this is 600 it includes the GPU includes like all the hardware that you need to make the whole thing work and there's upgradability right not just for the card enough but if you want to upgrade your laptop in the future you still going to have Thunderbolt 3 ports in the future like there's just a path of upgrade ability which I like to see in something like this so external GPUs are pretty viable for macbook pros right now and the supports are is going to get better over time all right hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subsea loved it and here's some fortnight footage there's actually my very first win and I was on a freaking MacBook enjoy