Atikio Thunder 3 GTX 1060 Thunderbolt eGPU Case

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I wanted to travel with my eGPU and found the box that came with the Akitio Thunder too heavy, so I pulled the board and printed this encosure to protect it when i travel but keep it light. I then soldered onto the motherboard in two places, and carry an xbox 360 150w power brick, plus this box, to give me an on-the-road eGPU setup that uses as little weight as possible. It has the advantage that if I forget my adapter, I can always buy a new 360 brick! The thunder 3 doesn't support powering the laptop unfortunately. but I use it with my HP x360 elite which has two ports, one I can use for power and one for the GPU. Works great. I made a few mistakes, see the photos for where I missed the power input on the GPU so had to 'modify' the design a hacksaw. I also made the inner fitting the exact size of the akitio board, so it is a very tight fit, I missed the size of the DC jack so had to widen that area also, if I did it again I would probably just remove the board power source. Finally I didn't allow for the DVI port, so had to adjust that area too. If I print it again I will fix these problems.