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hardware conducts CES coverage is made possible by our partner Nvidia it is also made possible thanks to Corsair fantex and NCI X external GPU enclosures I think are going to be very popular but it will take some time for the end-user to consider the realistic usage scenarios of when and how these external GPU enclosures will actually be used by you for example I love the idea of having a portable laptop something very small and like an ultrabook that I can travel with and do my email correspondence and script writing and when I'm back in the office simply plug the GPU enclosure in to gain that extra graphics power for maybe editing or gaming or simply running multiple displays off that same machine the asus rog XG 2 external GPU docking station would allow to do exactly that design wise it follows within the ROG theme with a matte black surface this awesome angular side window to show the GPU inside and the red underglow plus they are experimenting with this plasma like array in the center which to me looks quite pleasing very unique stuff but serves no function and it'd be really cool to have this plasma lighting grow with GPU usage but so far they are thinking of only having three color choices no RGB included opening the shell the side panels do occupy quite a lot of space but here we see dual 80 millimeter exhaust fans positioned at the top and the fact that this GPU dock supports the gtx 980ti matrix addition which is freaking huge tells us this this unit will support most other graphics cards as well two and a half slots no problem really tall coolers designs no problem either now unlike the Razer core which uses the single Thunderbolt three for connectivity the XG 2 uses dual USB type-c cables for connectivity which delivers PCIe x4 bandwidth with only one to 5% difference between the full x16 bandwidth and having two USB type-c cables with allow proper PCIe throughput but also charge the laptop with that second cable so at least we know that Asus notebooks in the future will most likely feature dual USB type-c ports for ability with this GPU doc