Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Razer Core X External Graphics Card Enclosure with Thunderbolt 3 Connection

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023

Credible, Superb fast delivery, Excellent packaging, and I strongly recommend buying the items from this store. My great experience of purchasing from Amazon for the first time ever!

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Circuit

Great Quality and Material

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2023

Style: Core XVerified Purchase

Title says it all. Only down side was it came with a UK plug and I have to buy my own power cord.

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Mr Lewis

Neat, just works, USB ports provide external keyboard / mouse for single cable dock connection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2019

Style: Core X ChromaVerified Purchase

Purchased so I could connect my work laptop and my other half’s work macbook to two 32” external 4K monitors and external keyboard & mouse.

Does the job perfectly. Connection via a single Thunderbolt USB-C cable, which also charges each laptop. Costly solution given I have no interest in gaming but it worked first time and is simple to use.

My use case is business: working large financial models in excel and personal: photoshop as keen amateur photographer.

Hopefully someone will come up with a cheaper solution for this use case that ‘just works’ as this one does. Used an AMD Vega 56 graphics card so it works with both Mac and pc.

Naturally Mac worked without even having to download drivers. Hideously expensive laptop but does just work. PC did require driver download.

Product looks very neat too. Not full of hideous coloured plastic. Quite the contrary, all metal with high quality feel. Supplied Thunderbolt 3 cable is laughably short. I am waiting for a 2m Belkin cable, which should still provide 100w power.

Very happy with purchase.

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Dr. Robert Pernar

Top eGPU Box

Reviewed in Germany on April 8, 2022

Style: Core X ChromaVerified Purchase

Nachdem ich die Gigabyte AORUS RTX 3080 Gaming Box zurückgeschickt hatte (diese war mir einfach zu laut und zu unflexibel), wollte ich dem Thema eGPU noch eine Chance geben. Diese Razer Box kann man nur empfehlen. Zusammen mit einem Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM Lüfter und dem Corsair SF750 SF Netzteil ist die Box absolut geräuschlos. Momentan hab ich eine NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti Grafikkarte drinnen und alles läuft top. Fazit: super Qualität, nach dem Modden nicht hörbar und äußerst flexibel für die Zukunft, falls mal eine neue Grafikkarte eingebaut werden soll. Damit erweitert man das Laptop über Thunderbolt in einer Art, dass es noch mehr Spaß macht ;-)!

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Alfio cliente Amazon

Box esterno per schede video

Reviewed in Italy on April 19, 2024

Style: Core XVerified Purchase

Installato scheda video Nvidia 3060 Asus eestetica molto bella telaio acciaio maniglia per estrarre alloggio scheda molto utile alimentatore 650w con grande ventola in dotazione connettore alimentazione scheda compatibile,il dispositivo una volta installato ed collegato ad un PC Thunderbolt connessione ad alta velocità che permette di collegare monitor fino a 8k spegnendo riaccendendo la box viene riconosciuto dal PC come secondo monitor dopodiché installare i driver della scheda video , pienamente soddisfatto servizio da parte del venditore ed Amazon ottimo

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George G

Works well in macOS and Windows

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 31, 2020

Style: Core XVerified Purchase

The device shows up immediately in macOS and attached GPUs works instantly with apps on the Mac. Performance is excellent with Final Cut Pro X and gaming, with the latter in both macOS (setting apps to prefer eGPU) and Windows.

The supplied cable, while very short to allow it to be passive, delivers the full 40Gb/s over Thunderbolt 3, confirmed with System Information in macOS. I understand providing all the ports on one side, but this does lead to an awkward desk setup especially given the tiny 0.5m cable included in the box. Purchasing a longer cable is almost a requirement to be able to turn the enclosure around 180°, otherwise you're pointing the heat right at yourself and your laptop. Active cables are a necessity for the 40 Gb/s but they're expensive (£50+) hence the inclusion of a passive short cable.

Windows has a harder time with consistent Error 12, and I wish Razer or someone could produce proper drivers that don't have this issue, but working around that gives an excellent experience.

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Works well, do not install Razer Synapse

Reviewed in Singapore on June 30, 2020

Style: Core X ChromaVerified Purchase

I've had my setup going for a weeks now. A brief description: I use the Razer Core X Chroma with my Dell XPS 13 9300 via TB3, an ASUS RTX 2060 OC Graphics Card, and connected to my Samsung C34J791 Monitor via Display Port from the Graphics Card. I also use one of the USB-A ports on the Razer Core X Chroma for a bluetooth dongle for my wireless keyboard and mouse.

I initially did have some problems with the computer randomly freezing, and had to force restart but this got solved when I went into the NVIDIA control panel and set 'Power Management Mode' to 'Prefer Maximum Performance'. There were times when Windows 10 had problems loading the Graphics Card drivers, this got solved by uninstalling Razer Synapse. Don't bother with installing it if you're like me and don't really care about the RGB.

I use it for work like 3D modelling, engineering, etc. and it is great for what I do. I do not notice any latency issues using the keyboard and mouse, but I don't game so I can't really how how it will perform in such a situation. All I can say that even when I do graphical benchmarking, the peripherals are still as responsive as wehn I place the dongle on my monitor's in built USB hub.

I cannot speak on how well the Ethernet port functions because I do not use it.

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Xianzhi Wang

good design but heavy

Reviewed in Australia on February 18, 2023

Style: Core XVerified Purchase

Not sure if this is a pro or con, but it is very heavy yet solidly built.

I like the design very much, that you can draw everything out and lock everything inside using a single handle.

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USB and Ethernet sockets are useless

Reviewed in Australia on April 18, 2022

Style: Core X ChromaVerified Purchase

XPS 15 7590 and rtx3060 works with minor glitches like having to restart the laptop sometimes when plugging the thunderbolt cable out and in.

However I get major stuttering / lag in fps when using any of the USB ports or Ethernet socket, if you're looking for a one cable solution I would give this generation of eGPUs a miss, you're essentially getting an overpriced power supply and a few fans with pretty lights

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Xavi

Estafa

Reviewed in Spain on June 30, 2021

Style: Core X ChromaVerified Purchase

Si lo quieres usar con un MAC olvidate, el puerto ethernet no funciona, el software de Razr tampoco funciona en MAC y no tienen planes de sacar una version que funcione asi que tampoco se puede configurar el RGB. Todo esto no sale en la descripcion.

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