[kayoone]

Good writeup! For a home workstartion setup this would be pretty ideal imo..it would possibly also reduce heat as the load is moved from the internal GPU to an external one. Windows only kills this though, as i can use my old windows rig from 2009 with a somewhat recent GPU (core2quad 2.8Ghz + HD6870) which still plays basically every game without breaking a sweat.

For my work setup with OSX something like this would be great!

[roc]

Yeah, $250-not-counting-the-GPU is very much in the "why wouldn't I just dust off my old mid-tower?" range.