External GPU Expansion via PCIE

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@tassadarforaiur

It sounds like you want to use occulink instead of thunderbolt. gpd is making g1 egpu with that, and there’s a community member that made the “one dock”. occulink is effectively pcie over sas connector, people are connecting it with adapter cards in m.2 slots, could be a port on a mostly blank / battery / etc. module in the gpu slot

We just discussed the same idea for the 13". It seems difficult/impossible to do, but with the 16" it seems trivial as you have the PCIe connexion.

In fact, in a expansion bay module with nothing or with a battery, it would be really stupid if those modules did not have an oculink connexion since the data lines are unused and the oculink connection from pcie is very simple and cheap.