# Thunderbolting Your Video Card

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**Created:** [March 24, 2017, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/thunderbolting-your-video-card/5157 "2017-03-24T09:08:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![wearysky](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@wearysky](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/wearysky)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/thunderbolting-your-video-card/5157/20 "2017-03-29T17:18:54Z")

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This is pretty neat, I have to say. Pity my XPS13 doesn’t have a TB3 port. Though I see that there are cheapo Chinese alternatives (about $40US if you buy directly from China) that connect via mini pci express. My laptop appears to only have a PCIE 2.0 slot in it though, so that would likely cause some serious bottlenecks.

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