Building a Gaming PC with an EGPU

The system can definitely get down a game on it and does really great with emulation and if you're interested in checking a video like that out I'll leave a link in the description. It's basically the same build that we have here minus the gpu so with this sonnet egpu dock I've just run the hdmi out of the video card which is the 5700 xt so we've just plugged in the thunderbolt 3 cable it's going to initialize and now instead of using the built-in radeon graphics we're using a 5700 xt over thunderbolt like I mentioned this build is definitely not for everybody it's kind of a niche build you know if you have a use case scenario then you can definitely do something like this and personally I'm a huge fan of these mini pcs so we kind of wanted to see if it could even be done. So I've got everything situated now we're running over that egpu give you a look at this as you can see still got that 5700 g we can still access those radeon 8 graphics that are built into this apu but when it comes down to it we want to use this big gpu here and it just happens to be a radeon rx 5700 xt with 8 gigabytes of vram so you might notice that the fans on the egpu aren't spinning right now will go into afterburner we can control them from right here so we've just turned them on it's just kind of got that sleep mode going it's not hot enough to run them and now what I want to do is run a few benchmarks on the pc like it is now then we'll jump right into some gaming and see how much more performance we got out of it by adding this egpu.

The results of the benchmarks are as follows: 3D Mark Night Raid with a score of 45,275 we're around 20,000 without the gpu next up we have Fire Strike we got a total score here of 20,645 and remember without the egpu we had a 4,679. The last one here is Time Spy total score with the egpu 8,283 and without 1,768. So obviously we did up the gpu performance by quite a bit and I expected it adding something like that 5700 xt but now it's time to get into some real world gaming and see how this thing performs with that thunderbolt 3 dock attached here we have Forza Horizon 5 ultra settings 1080p getting an average of 92 fps not bad at all we've definitely upped the performance on this little pc before we did have to take this down the low to get an average of around 67 out of it GTA 5 very high settings 1080p we got an average of 123 fps out of this and it's much higher in most of the places with the overclock on the cpu and the built-in gpu we could get over 60 at 1080p with a high low mix or a high normal mix.

Here are some results from popular games:

Doom Eternal ultra 1080p if you remember on the built-in graphics we really struggled with this but we got an average of 83 fps out of it on ultra settings and finally Cyberpunk 2077 going into this I was sure we'd get much better performance out of it we're at a medium high mix 1080p and it's kind of struggling to keep it 60. We did get an average of 63 out of this but I thought it would be much better so yeah this definitely works out it's really cool to see a thunderbolt egpu connected to an AMD setup um one thing that I would recommend was not going with something like this and just getting you know a mini tower case and throwing that gpu right in the pcie x16 slot it'll definitely net you better performance but I really wanted to experiment with this and you know like it sits without any gpu attached for emulation this thing does an amazing job but if you need a little more out of it you can always go with thunderbolt as long as your motherboard supports them. This is really the only board that I've seen that uses the am4 socket and thunderbolt 3 that's able to use an egpu but in the end I would just go with a bigger build if you're going to buy all of these parts go with a tower and just put that right in there this is kind of a niche build just an experimental build but it does work out as you saw with this video but that's gonna wrap it up for this one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be putting together a tiny gaming pc powered by a ryzen 7 5700 g if you're a regular viewer of the channel this might seem very familiar but trust me there is a twist with this one because we're actually going to be able to get some really awesome gpu performance out of this portable mini gaming pc and that's because the motherboard that i'm going to be using in this build actually supports thunderbolt 3 on an amd platform and in turn we're able to plug any gpu into this thing now it might not make a lot of sense to some people to build something specifically for an egpu but on one side of it we've got a very small portable pc that's actually capable of some pretty decent gaming like it sits with the internal radeon ae graphics on that 5700 g but then when you get to the house and you're ready to up the resolution and that frame rate you can plug it right into your egpu setup and in this video i'm going to be using a sonnet egpu breakaway box they're actually pretty inexpensive along with an rx 5700 i was going to go with something a little lower end but i figured i'd just go ahead and see what we could get out of this whole pc i've personally been waiting for a little while now for an am4 platform with thunderbolt 3 and i've had this motherboard that we're going to be using for a little while but initially when it was released it didn't support egpus until a couple bios updates later and i just really haven't gotten around to doing a build with it and the motherboard i'm talking about is the asrock x570 phantom gaming itx tb3 this is an am4 platform it will support these 5000 series ryzen apus with a bios update and obviously it supports thunderbolt 3 so we can plug in that egpu now this board is a little odd even though it's an am4 board you have to use an intel cooler with it so i've got 1155 thermal right copper cooler that fits right on this and the small case that we're going to be using so we've got the 5700g for the ram we're going with some pretty fast stuff for ddr4 it's 4 400 megahertz we've got that thermal right copper cooler fits right in the case we're going to be using and speaking of the case this is the in-wind chopin pro so instead of the 150 watt power supply it's got the 200 watt power supply and with this 5700 g overclocked on all eight cores it can pull over 150 watts up to around 187 so i definitely needed the pro model if i wanted to get the most out of it and for this build here i'm just going with a simple silicon power m.2 ssd it's a 512 gigabyte version so this is not going to be a build tutorial i've actually done a few of them but you can always find something else online there's tons of them the cooler we have here actually does a great job the cooler we have here actually does a great job with the 5700g used it in one of my previous builds but this happens to be the intel version of the cooler it's the axp90x47 and it does fit right on this board i was actually a little worried that i wouldn't be able to make it fit but it sits right down in here nice and neat so we're good to go on the cooler side of things now it's time to get this inside of the case and like i mentioned this is the in-wind chopin pro with the 200 watt power supply this is definitely a tight fit but i am a big fan of this case especially for these little mini apu builds and when we get let's say the 6000 series apus i'll probably be using the same case so i can get this down in here and this motherboard actually has a pre-installed i o blade on the back and sometimes it gets caught right on the corner so you will just have to be careful about that but it does fit in here with your taller ram that cooler we're using here and the motherboard and there we go yeah that little thing just always catches on the corner but it does sit in here really nicely and believe it or not with the show pan you can actually make it look really good with some decent cable management so once i got everything secured and the cables tied up looks something like this you can kind of just push those cables up in the front of the case and as you can see we do have two usb 3.0 ports on the front we've got our audio in and out on the front also and this also supports two 2.5 inch drives around back but for this i'm just using that single m.2 drive i just really like the way they've set this case up and the newer pro models you can get in that kind of gun metal gray which i think looks really nice so here we are booting up again i've already installed windows 10 pro i've got a lot of applications installed but i'll just give you a quick look at everything running on the igpu so we've got a really powerful cpu here that 5700 g has eight cores 16 threads and i'm actually overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz on all eight cores here and i could go a bit higher but it really comes down to that smaller cpu cooler so as you can see we've got the 5700g and we've got the built-in radeon 8 graphics so the way i have it set up right now is about as powerful as i can make this little tiny machine without worrying about cooling we're at 4.4 gigahertz on all 8 cores i've got the built-in radeon 8 graphics overclocked to 2300 megahertz and really what makes a big difference is that faster ram it's running at 4 400 megahertz so the first thing we're going to do here is just run some benchmarks on it like it sits then we're going to test out some pc games and once we're finished with that and get kind of a baseline of what this thing can do all by itself we're going to plug in that egpu so first up we have 3d mark night raid 20 432 fire strike 4679 and finally time spy with a 1768 remember we're at 4.4 on all eight cores and 2300 megahertz on the built-in radionic graphics moving over to some tests without the egpu we have marvel vs capcom infinite 1080p medium low runs great at 60. i've had really good luck with the 5700 g in games like this but when you move over to something like doom eternal you definitely want dynamic resolution scale on right now we're only at 900 p low and it's struggling to hit 60 but with that dynamic resolution scale on it will do it moving over to gta 5 not bad performance here we've got 1080p with a high normal mix i got an average of 81 fps out of this really good performance and totally playable in my opinion next up we have project cars 2 and it is a bit hit or miss depending on the track you're on with these built-in radeon graphics but most of the time you can do over 60 with a medium low mix but something like cyberpunk 2077 really struggles 720p low with population density set to the lowest we only got an average of 48 fps so it's not bad by itself and you know carrying this around to your buddy's house you can definitely get down a game on it it does really great with emulation and if you're interested in checking a video like that out i'll leave a link in the description it's basically the same build that we have here minus the gpu so with this sonnet egpu dock i've just run the hdmi out of the video card which is the 5700 xt so we've just plugged in the thunderbolt 3 cable it's going to initialize and now instead of using the built-in radeon graphics we're using a 5700 xt over thunderbolt like i mentioned this build is definitely not for everybody it's kind of a niche build you know if you have a use case scenario then you can definitely do something like this and personally i'm a huge fan of these mini pcs so we kind of wanted to see if it could even be done so i've got everything situated now we're running over that egpu give you a look at this as you can see still got that 5700 g we can still access those radeon 8 graphics that are built into this apu but when it comes down to it we want to use this big gpu here and it just happens to be a radeon rx 5700 xt with 8 gigabytes of vram so you might notice that the fans on the egpu aren't spinning right now will go into afterburner we can control them from right here so we've just turned them on it's just kind of got that sleep mode going it's not hot enough to run them and now what i want to do is run a few benchmarks on the pc like it is now then we'll jump right into some gaming and see how much more performance we got out of it by adding this egpu and i just went with the same benchmarks here we have 3d mark night raid with a 45 275 we're around 20 000 without the gpu next up we have fire strike we got a total score here of 20 645 and remember without the egpu we had a 4 679 and the last one here is time spy total score with the egpu 8283 and without 1768. so obviously we did up the gpu performance by quite a bit and i expected it adding something like that 5700 xt but now it's time to get into some real world gaming and see how this thing performs with that thunderbolt 3 dock attached here we have forza horizon 5 ultra settings 1080p getting an average of 92 fps not bad at all we've definitely upped the performance on this little pc before we did have to take this down the low to get an average of around 67 out of it gta 5 very high settings 1080p we got an average of 123 fps out of this and it's much higher in most of the places with the overclock on the cpu and the built-in gpu we could get over 60 at 1080p with a high low mix or a high normal mix here's doom eternal ultra 1080p if you remember on the built-in graphics we really struggled with this but we got an average of 83 fps out of it on ultra settings and finally cyberpunk 2077 going into this i was sure we'd get much better performance out of it we're at a medium high mix 1080p and it's kind of struggling to keep it 60. we did get an average of 63 out of this but i thought it would be much better so yeah this definitely works out it's really cool to see a thunderbolt egpu connected to an amd setup um one thing that i would recommend was not going with something like this and just getting you know a mini tower case and throwing that gpu right in the pcie x16 slot it'll definitely net you better performance but i really wanted to experiment with this and you know like it sits without any gpu attached for emulation this thing does an amazing job but if you need a little more out of it you can always go with thunderbolt as long as your motherboard supports them this is really the only board that i've seen that uses the am4 socket and thunderbolt 3 that's able to use an egpu but in the end i would just go with a bigger build if you're going to buy all of these parts go with a tower and just put that right in there this is kind of a niche build just an experimental build but it does work out as you saw with this video but that's gonna wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching if you're interested in seeing what this little pc can do without an external gpu link for that video is in the description if you have any questions let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be putting together a tiny gaming pc powered by a ryzen 7 5700 g if you're a regular viewer of the channel this might seem very familiar but trust me there is a twist with this one because we're actually going to be able to get some really awesome gpu performance out of this portable mini gaming pc and that's because the motherboard that i'm going to be using in this build actually supports thunderbolt 3 on an amd platform and in turn we're able to plug any gpu into this thing now it might not make a lot of sense to some people to build something specifically for an egpu but on one side of it we've got a very small portable pc that's actually capable of some pretty decent gaming like it sits with the internal radeon ae graphics on that 5700 g but then when you get to the house and you're ready to up the resolution and that frame rate you can plug it right into your egpu setup and in this video i'm going to be using a sonnet egpu breakaway box they're actually pretty inexpensive along with an rx 5700 i was going to go with something a little lower end but i figured i'd just go ahead and see what we could get out of this whole pc i've personally been waiting for a little while now for an am4 platform with thunderbolt 3 and i've had this motherboard that we're going to be using for a little while but initially when it was released it didn't support egpus until a couple bios updates later and i just really haven't gotten around to doing a build with it and the motherboard i'm talking about is the asrock x570 phantom gaming itx tb3 this is an am4 platform it will support these 5000 series ryzen apus with a bios update and obviously it supports thunderbolt 3 so we can plug in that egpu now this board is a little odd even though it's an am4 board you have to use an intel cooler with it so i've got 1155 thermal right copper cooler that fits right on this and the small case that we're going to be using so we've got the 5700g for the ram we're going with some pretty fast stuff for ddr4 it's 4 400 megahertz we've got that thermal right copper cooler fits right in the case we're going to be using and speaking of the case this is the in-wind chopin pro so instead of the 150 watt power supply it's got the 200 watt power supply and with this 5700 g overclocked on all eight cores it can pull over 150 watts up to around 187 so i definitely needed the pro model if i wanted to get the most out of it and for this build here i'm just going with a simple silicon power m.2 ssd it's a 512 gigabyte version so this is not going to be a build tutorial i've actually done a few of them but you can always find something else online there's tons of them the cooler we have here actually does a great job the cooler we have here actually does a great job with the 5700g used it in one of my previous builds but this happens to be the intel version of the cooler it's the axp90x47 and it does fit right on this board i was actually a little worried that i wouldn't be able to make it fit but it sits right down in here nice and neat so we're good to go on the cooler side of things now it's time to get this inside of the case and like i mentioned this is the in-wind chopin pro with the 200 watt power supply this is definitely a tight fit but i am a big fan of this case especially for these little mini apu builds and when we get let's say the 6000 series apus i'll probably be using the same case so i can get this down in here and this motherboard actually has a pre-installed i o blade on the back and sometimes it gets caught right on the corner so you will just have to be careful about that but it does fit in here with your taller ram that cooler we're using here and the motherboard and there we go yeah that little thing just always catches on the corner but it does sit in here really nicely and believe it or not with the show pan you can actually make it look really good with some decent cable management so once i got everything secured and the cables tied up looks something like this you can kind of just push those cables up in the front of the case and as you can see we do have two usb 3.0 ports on the front we've got our audio in and out on the front also and this also supports two 2.5 inch drives around back but for this i'm just using that single m.2 drive i just really like the way they've set this case up and the newer pro models you can get in that kind of gun metal gray which i think looks really nice so here we are booting up again i've already installed windows 10 pro i've got a lot of applications installed but i'll just give you a quick look at everything running on the igpu so we've got a really powerful cpu here that 5700 g has eight cores 16 threads and i'm actually overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz on all eight cores here and i could go a bit higher but it really comes down to that smaller cpu cooler so as you can see we've got the 5700g and we've got the built-in radeon 8 graphics so the way i have it set up right now is about as powerful as i can make this little tiny machine without worrying about cooling we're at 4.4 gigahertz on all 8 cores i've got the built-in radeon 8 graphics overclocked to 2300 megahertz and really what makes a big difference is that faster ram it's running at 4 400 megahertz so the first thing we're going to do here is just run some benchmarks on it like it sits then we're going to test out some pc games and once we're finished with that and get kind of a baseline of what this thing can do all by itself we're going to plug in that egpu so first up we have 3d mark night raid 20 432 fire strike 4679 and finally time spy with a 1768 remember we're at 4.4 on all eight cores and 2300 megahertz on the built-in radionic graphics moving over to some tests without the egpu we have marvel vs capcom infinite 1080p medium low runs great at 60. i've had really good luck with the 5700 g in games like this but when you move over to something like doom eternal you definitely want dynamic resolution scale on right now we're only at 900 p low and it's struggling to hit 60 but with that dynamic resolution scale on it will do it moving over to gta 5 not bad performance here we've got 1080p with a high normal mix i got an average of 81 fps out of this really good performance and totally playable in my opinion next up we have project cars 2 and it is a bit hit or miss depending on the track you're on with these built-in radeon graphics but most of the time you can do over 60 with a medium low mix but something like cyberpunk 2077 really struggles 720p low with population density set to the lowest we only got an average of 48 fps so it's not bad by itself and you know carrying this around to your buddy's house you can definitely get down a game on it it does really great with emulation and if you're interested in checking a video like that out i'll leave a link in the description it's basically the same build that we have here minus the gpu so with this sonnet egpu dock i've just run the hdmi out of the video card which is the 5700 xt so we've just plugged in the thunderbolt 3 cable it's going to initialize and now instead of using the built-in radeon graphics we're using a 5700 xt over thunderbolt like i mentioned this build is definitely not for everybody it's kind of a niche build you know if you have a use case scenario then you can definitely do something like this and personally i'm a huge fan of these mini pcs so we kind of wanted to see if it could even be done so i've got everything situated now we're running over that egpu give you a look at this as you can see still got that 5700 g we can still access those radeon 8 graphics that are built into this apu but when it comes down to it we want to use this big gpu here and it just happens to be a radeon rx 5700 xt with 8 gigabytes of vram so you might notice that the fans on the egpu aren't spinning right now will go into afterburner we can control them from right here so we've just turned them on it's just kind of got that sleep mode going it's not hot enough to run them and now what i want to do is run a few benchmarks on the pc like it is now then we'll jump right into some gaming and see how much more performance we got out of it by adding this egpu and i just went with the same benchmarks here we have 3d mark night raid with a 45 275 we're around 20 000 without the gpu next up we have fire strike we got a total score here of 20 645 and remember without the egpu we had a 4 679 and the last one here is time spy total score with the egpu 8283 and without 1768. so obviously we did up the gpu performance by quite a bit and i expected it adding something like that 5700 xt but now it's time to get into some real world gaming and see how this thing performs with that thunderbolt 3 dock attached here we have forza horizon 5 ultra settings 1080p getting an average of 92 fps not bad at all we've definitely upped the performance on this little pc before we did have to take this down the low to get an average of around 67 out of it gta 5 very high settings 1080p we got an average of 123 fps out of this and it's much higher in most of the places with the overclock on the cpu and the built-in gpu we could get over 60 at 1080p with a high low mix or a high normal mix here's doom eternal ultra 1080p if you remember on the built-in graphics we really struggled with this but we got an average of 83 fps out of it on ultra settings and finally cyberpunk 2077 going into this i was sure we'd get much better performance out of it we're at a medium high mix 1080p and it's kind of struggling to keep it 60. we did get an average of 63 out of this but i thought it would be much better so yeah this definitely works out it's really cool to see a thunderbolt egpu connected to an amd setup um one thing that i would recommend was not going with something like this and just getting you know a mini tower case and throwing that gpu right in the pcie x16 slot it'll definitely net you better performance but i really wanted to experiment with this and you know like it sits without any gpu attached for emulation this thing does an amazing job but if you need a little more out of it you can always go with thunderbolt as long as your motherboard supports them this is really the only board that i've seen that uses the am4 socket and thunderbolt 3 that's able to use an egpu but in the end i would just go with a bigger build if you're going to buy all of these parts go with a tower and just put that right in there this is kind of a niche build just an experimental build but it does work out as you saw with this video but that's gonna wrap it up for this one i really appreciate you watching if you're interested in seeing what this little pc can do without an external gpu link for that video is in the description if you have any questions let me know in the comments below like always thanks for watching\n"