This 3D printed, laptop-carrying 'suitcase' is not just a thing of beauty but it's also a neat solution to the dearth of eGPUs

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Here’s an RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC with a load of RAM and SSD storage, all inexplicably at last year’s price PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!MarathonArc RaidersBest PC gearQuizzes Hardware This 3D printed, laptop-carrying ‘suitcase’ is not just a thing of beauty but it’s also a neat solution to the dearth of eGPUs News By Nick Evanson published 9 March 2026 Just don’t go waving it around like a real suitcase. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: MPKVR) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer Get the PC Gamer Newsletter Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. 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You can use a normal graphics card, but then you have another problem: how to mount it all safely. Well, this 3D printed eGPU ‘suitcase’ solves that issue entirely and looks super nice to boot.MakerWorld user MPKVR adapted their original PC pegboard design, which uses an Ikea Skadis to mount components, into something that looks genuinely very useful. One side holds a laptop, with the other side being used for a graphics card, PCIe slot card, and a PSU to run the eGPU. Oh, and a handy holder for a controller.While the carry handle suggests the whole thing is very portable, MPKVR warns that they “wouldn’t trust long journeys” because everything is held in place by friction. At the very least, you should have no problems moving about your office space or gaming den, and I’m sure that if you already have the 3D printer required to make it, then crafting some kind of mechanisms to secure all the parts shouldn’t be a problem. You may like This Zotac mini PC has an inventive way of ditching its RTX 5060 Ti’s power cables, and no it’s not the same as the Asus BTF way I’ve found a cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop you’ll actually want to buy, an increasingly rare thing in these uncertain times HP’s new AI PC might look like a laptop that lost a fight with an angle grinder but it’s compact and discreet as you could possibly get Other than the clean looks, the main thing I like about this is that it’s a great solution to the fact that there are so few external GPUs worth buying. No matter how good your laptop’s graphics chip is, it’ll never be as good as a full-sized, dedicated graphics card due to power restrictions.A mobile RTX 5070 Ti and a desktop RTX 5070 might look very similar on paper—both have 12 GB of VRAM, 5888 vs 6144 shaders—but the former will have a power limit of around 140 W compared to the latter’s 250 W. That means the graphics card will support higher boost clocks and cope with heavier rende