Yes, that box is too small for the Titan, however Sonnet Echo Express Pro seems to be able to accomodate the Titan.

Here are two confirmed cases using external GPUs on macs with the instructions on how to modify the drivers, so that OS X would recognize external GPUs:

http://mediapros.co.uk ...

OK. I'll take it as a no then.

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Is there any experience with running OctaneRender on external GPU, specifically with MacBook Pro Retina + Sonnet Echo Express SE + Geforce Titan, or similar? What are pros and cons? Are there better configurations than the above?

Thanks.


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Right -- my expectations of the Demo software were a bit off of the reality.

Thanks.

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I see the grey area in the main viewer of the demo standalone 1.2 on OS X 10.7.4, CUDA 4.2.1 GeForce GT 650M.

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The video card is recognized by the Octane Render.

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I know this is not the best card, but reading ...