DanielC but only one presentation, the next time windows update has done it's work and the next thing you know it's throttling at 100% with word opened 🤣
+Magic mushroom I was thinking just that, and what versions of Windows will it run on, and how are the drivers for the device itself, and the drivers for the video card, and then disabling the internal GPU, and getting the laptops internal display to still run with the external GPU. Plus the wild mess of cables it leaves on your desk, and having to jumper a spare PSU which if you don't own one can add to the cost for a quality 450 watt 80+ Plus Bronze PSU costing an extra $40 US, or more, as I personally would not use anything less to be safe, then lets not forget having to take a laptop apart which for some models is no easy thing to do, and might need modding for that cable to have a spot to come out of which then means getting a Dremel tool, and cutting a hole for the cable to fit into.
Commodorefan64 I never managed to set it up my self and I'm no stranger to computers, Had encountered many errors and it was like a maze solve one error to get the other. It all came down to windows bsod which had no fix error 0x00000001 when booting windows, hotpluging it will allow it the gpu to recognised and labeled as "working properly" and it was picked up by gpuz as a gpu in the computer however it was not being used and no valid information was shown besides the name and more generic info on the gpu. It was pretty useless as I couldn't switch to It, nvidea control panel recognised the gpu as being there but refused to open as "gpu was not being used" and I couldn't find any way to make my laptop use it so I gave up and sold it for a loss of 10$, going to buy a motherboard and gpu to complete my pc and just use that. I'm also in Canada so everything is just more expensive and it was 60$ for it :/
Superstars hahaha, because he doesn't get what he is doing here. It's to hard to get how PCIe channel work i guess. You get how to reroute PCIe channels now? You get why 4x works in some cases, some not? how can you see if your board can get this PCIe connection?
I went all out and tested this with a 1070 gtx. On my Asus Rog G750 780m, I basically got a 4x increase in performance, but compare to a regular 1070 benchmark I'm only achieving between 70 and 80% of what is expected from this card. Still it's an amazing improvement that will let me push back my laptop upgrade of at least 2 years. This little piece of plastic is absolutely amazing for the price!
Kevin Corrado he doesn't deserve shit if he can't even include a link in the description to the product he is trying out... Fucking hell what has happened to this website? Oh right, Google bought it years ago.
Just a User learn to stop expecting shit. Can't get things handed to you all the time even in this era. It's not so hard to Google "external laptop GPU dock" or something similar.
Its a bit annoying that all youtube videos on this uses a laptop with a terrible cpu, i would like to see a video which has a laptop with an i5/i7 hooked up to an external card, to see the full capablity of the dock
just a reminder though, with this adapter your using only a PCIE-x1 connection, and depending on how old or new it is, it can be either 3.0 or 2.0, which means if your only getting PCIE 2.0 at x1 itll be 32 times less bandwith then a full PCIE 3.0 x16, including it might be going through the North Bridge instead of the CPU's lanes which means its slower and USB, Hard Drives, and DVD Drives can slow it down even more although either way, it'll be better then IGPU's
Yes, if anyone is serious about doing this you really should check what connection you have, there are some guides online. Otherwise it might not be worth it at all.
Laptops with Intel Sandy bridge and later should be able to run at pci-e 2.0 which is the reason I wouldn't recommend older systems. Skylake and later are able to run at Pci-e 3.0 and these systems usually also have a M.2 port allowing Pci-express X4 eGPUs with the EXP GDC 9.0/PE4C 4.0
Ganesh Sahane Yeah. But be aware of wireless card whitelists if you really want to do this. Egpu.io has info you may want to look. Tiago Yes. The first number of a processor name shows it's generation. I3/I5/I7-2XXX and later are fine
I know you mentioned that older laptops have Expresscard, but this is actually a blessing for some as it is easier to insert and remove the expresscard versus taking your wifi card out. Also, you don't have to use an ATX power supply. If the card has low enough power draw you can use an external power brick with many of these. I plan to do this soon with my laptop. I have a Dell XPS M1330 that I've pretty much upgraded as far as possible. Upgrades I have made are a 120 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM (those DDR2 SO-DIMMs are not cheap), Windows 10 Pro, and a Core 2 Duo T8300 (400 MHz bump from the original CPU). I would consider removing the optical drive to replace with a storage drive, but it is slot loading and I'm not sure if it is possible. I also purchased a new battery for it recently. My understanding is that the Expresscard slot is equivalent to PCIe 2.0 x1. Certainly won't be a gaming beast, but any improvement is welcome. I plan to buy one and pair it with a low power graphics card like a GT 710 that should provide a boost from the Geforce 8400m that shipped with it.
i have bought this one with msi gtx 960, i paid about 140 dollars for them, got it working on my laptop which is 2011 samsung laptop with i7 2670qm 8gb ram and nvidia 520mx, cant be more happy, i was playing games with lowspecgamer tweaks, now i dont need any tweaks, games running very well for me, many thanks for lowspegamer.
i was green about the egpu thing, i put everything in and power it on, black screen, had to change the switch on the beast, then it booted, i have it on my external display, when it booted i didnt find my gtx 960, i remember it was named something else in the settings of device manager, after some fiddling around i was able to install drivers, was trying everything like 5 hours till i found everything, now it runs fine, but has some bugs, like when putting pc to sleep it wont sleep, you cant disable 520mx through bios because bios is shit in that laptop.
Be careful when doing this on an HP laptop, they have a whitelist in the bios preventing the computer to boot if it detect anything connected to the mini pci-e port that is not one of their wireless adapters
i had this exact laptop for so many years! since I was like 8 until 13 or so, it was amazing at the time, i forced it to play so many things like Dishonored and dark souls, i don't know how I finished all the dark souls games (excluding 3) and put 190 hours into fallout new Vegas on that thing! i remember watching so many "boost your PC" videos, good times, i think i still have it around, thank you for the nostalgia trip, I'll try booting it up and see what's on it!
*Before buying this* This device is extremely unstable and requires a combination of compatible hardware and luck, if you have amd cpu - u can't use It, Intel dual core cpu - performance is trash, old gpu - performance is trash, powerful gpu - performance hit and most likely won't work (gtx 980ti/titan), Amd gpu's require annoying set up and may not work, nvidea gpu's have higher chance at working, most likely you are going to run into errors when just getting It, you will need to do a dsdt overwrite if you use a 2gb+ video card, your computer may not even work with something else in the mpcie slot besides Wi-Fi card, power outage in your house will damage your computer And gpu with this working, you cannot use any new nvidea video cards 10xx or titan/Quadra based on Pascal (if you try an succed 1060 maybe the highest you use since higher will degrade performance because bandwith limitation). Understand all That? Well here are some more errors you can run into Windows error 0x00000001 Blue screen of death Black screen of death Error 42 Error 43 Error 12 Won't work if you have non integrated gpu in your laptop Gpu not detected Randomly stops working Gpu performing slow Not enough resources on the bus There are some of the problems you will expect when setting up, you will experience at least one or 2 of the above when using edpu dock and some of them can't be fixed. You can have a chance at fixing it with setup 1.3x but that cost extra 20$ I have purchased this gpu and besides the 1 full month shipping fee was not able to get it working and ended up selli g it 3rd party for less than I bought it for, my view is not worth It, save up for a pc, you can buy a fx6300 and a motherboard as well as 16gb ram for it for cheap and pair it with a 1050 and that's 400$ but guaranteed to work
Just use laptop with Expresscard slot. I have Thinkpad T430 with I5 ( for now) EXP GDC with GTX 560 on Gen 1 speed ( gen 2 is buggy and won't work untill better cable or something- i am working on this). Also use external monitor- bus is used only once. I like this setup, it is better than my old laptop, and also if i need i only need to sleep
laptop and plug out Expresscard and i am free to go. Yes, i can't play newest games on 1080p high, but most games that i play, works better than on old laptop, and yes some games are totally incompatibile with this solution.(Arma 2, Dark Souls 3 sadly)
I've got the exact same Acer laptop but I did buy it expressly for business use and webcam recording, not its gaming prowess. It came with Windows 8 (not 8.1 as it wasn't available at time of my purchase) which I later upgraded to Windows 10 and installed some software to stop Microsoft snooping on me. For lightweight use I find it pretty damn snappy actually and I love the laptop.
nice video dude, just a recomendation, since you are talking about the external GPU, I think, that it would be nice not only talk about the frame rate improve in the games, but also about things like if the processor get bottleneck or not with this graphic card, or show how much workload the processor and the graphics card have while you are playing. I think that this could be really helpful for the people with similar laptops to have and idea about how much they can push their own pc's.
You should try this on a better specced laptop just to see what would happen. There are plenty of laptops with good CPUs available (i3, i5, i7 even) but the graphics cards hold them back. Would be interesting to try it on one of those, using a better GPU as well. Would also be interesting to try this out on an older gaming laptop that's still mildly capable, but held back by the dated GPU.
Nice videos man. Love your channel and use it often to show people they can get into PC gaming without spending loads of money. I'm planning on making a video like this myself with my Toshiba Satellite l755-s5153. It currently has a Pentium B960 in it. I'm gonna upgrade it to an i7-2670qm (can be done as I've read it on a few forums). Then pair this with a 750 Ti or a 1030 so my GPU is super bottlenecked by the CPU and more on par with each other. Again love your channel man, wish I had the time to do videos like these as well :)
I have been using an external GPU dock for over an year now for my laptop (i7 3632QM) and I'm very happy with it. Initially I also bought the GDC Beast but as I found out it has issues sometimes. What I mean by issues is the cable that is not soldered to the unit and my GPU drivers would pop errors from time to time and that resulted in the game crashing. After a couple of months I bought the PE4C V3.0 and this runs with no issues since the cable is soldered to the unit. It's more expensive but it is alot cheaper than any of those 200$+ docks out there. Plus I haven't seen any of those docks with mPCIE connector that I need. Sure the connection does bottleneck my GPU (GTX 1070) but it enabled me to play all the games that I want at 60FPS (with lower details but still). As a reminder for anyone wanting to get one of these you should use an external monitor as well since the performance is about 20% lower when using the built in monitor (it only works with nvidia cards on internal monitors anyway if I'm not mistaken) . Adding this performance loss to the already existing loss of performance from the connection is alot. Also you don't really need a PC power supply. I bought a DELL DA-2 Series D220P-01 (216W) power supply adapter for 15-20$ that is alot smaller and less cables to worry about. One final thing is to stay away from GTX 1050 and GTX 1050Ti. Last time I checked those had issues since nvidia did something to their newer drivers to break eGPU docks. Any other nvidia model works nice since you can install older drivers and update to latest after that. Since the GTX 1050/1050Ti were last to come out those older drivers don't support those cards. I don't know if anyone found a solution to this I haven't been researching lately. A usefull forum for any eGPU stuff is www.techinferno.com
@Fenno Graas Here you go www.amazon.com/XCSOURCE-External-Independent-Graphics-AC774/dp/B071RTC9HP/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504468416&sr=8-2&keywords=EXP+GDC+External+Graphics+Card+Adapter
Honestly it is, but I like to think of it like this - its not about the destination, its about the journey. Like it might be so much of a hassle to do this, but its worth it to learn what it takes to make this work and the fact you can modify a laptop to game.
I have one of these. I made my laptop into a gaming laptop with it. I also screwed the slot onto the back of the laptop and made the video board work with the built in screen. It is the "ExpressCard" one and the whole setup works well with a "HD 5750". I will put a link here so that you can click on it and see it some time later.
How does the laptops monitor receive all the data from gpu? Is there anything connected to the back of gpu? I dont get it. The gpu receives data from that express port on motherboard, but how the laptop gets it back? We all know that you have to connect the monitor to the gpu for it to work
"The gpu receives data from that express port on motherboard, but how the laptop gets it back?" PCIe goes both ways, what's to wonder about here? It's a full-duplex connection, so signals can go in both directions at the same time. Not that I'm any kind of expert, I'm probably getting it wrong, but I don't see why the GPU wouldn't just send the result back the same way.
Tadeusz Kantor well on desktops, gpu receives data from pcie, and sends it thru hdmi or dispay port to monitor, i dont get it how laptop screen receives it, since the pcie port is really small, and i don't think it can go both ways
Great vid! I really like it how your gaming and PC setup habits are similar to mine. It helps me build decent rigs for the price. Keep up the simple but informative and concise format. Cheers from the Philippines!
can u do video on the gpu that can play pubg , i want to buillt this setup but i wondering that cheap gpu that can run this thing and can play pubg . thanks :)
FONVash you can do higher then a 1060, but with a CPU like that you won't see full Performance of that 1060. The highest card I'd use would be either the 1050, or 1050 TI (people report a error 43 issue with the 1050 TI due to the drivers).
Gerardo Marca gt 1030 probably won't work since it's new architecture and 10xx cards have problems with egp, just Google 1030 gaming performance and subtract 20% of the number of frams in a certain game and that's about how much drama you get with this
you cant use the 1030 nvidia blocked any card newer than a 1060. You should go with a rx 460 560 or 550. It can almost run a 560 at full so id go with that.
My moms going to kill me if I took apart her office laptop just for a gaming 🤣🤣. Can I mod my acer aspire e 14 this method? Or should I change the cpu as well?
Rhd 30fps playable and smooth! Llt 120fps @ 4k ok! Really some people has different taste for being budget gamer! Llt spend 20k$ for games rhd spend 20$ for games and enjoy it !
Kuntal ghosh the funny thing is, 30 fps loocked smooth and very playable on my old laptop, then i got a highend rig (r5 1600,gtx 1080, 3440x1440). Now everything under 60 fps ( even 50) looks laggy and bad LOL
Manuel Auer R5 1600 with gtx1080 is bad, something like an i5 or i7 is better for gaming as always I got ryzen 7 1700 and gtx1080 for high end PC that can handle what ever I throw at it!
I know that feeling. My "playable" FPS depends on the game, and how well the game runs at said FPS. I am happy if my flight sims can stay around 30 FPS but I like my fast paced E-Sports games to stay near 60.
Hey there I wanted to add this as cheaper and cleaner way to power the GDC EXP you can use a Dell D220P-01 N112H DA-2 Series power adapter they are around $9~$15 on ebay and all they are is a laptop like adapter that carries 12v 220w power and has a 8-Pin plug. they were made for USFF Optiplex systems back in the early to mid 2000s or you can use a 150w Gaming Laptop PS as well (as long as it's a 12v version).
Yeah, basically just the needed power of the Graphics Card, which normally wont get directly named, just the TDP, which is, especially nowadays, pretty useless, but I would still recommend buying a PSU with about 1.5 times the TDP in watts.
Hardream if it has a 24 pin thats all you need, especially for a pci power only gpu. I have a very unconventional setup with one of these docks, mini pcie to mini pci with a radeon hd 3450, powered by a 100w pico power supply
midly mad skunk you don't need the 24 pin connector for this, all you need is the 4pin *cpu* connector, the motherboard 20+4 pin connector is only for telling psu to power on (green wire on the 20pin connector Is the power on/off wire, the extra 4pin motherboard connecotr you pull away and don't use, if you even try to use it it won't fit and if u force it nothing will happen since it does not carry enough power.)
you can use 12v dc power adapter like laptop one,no need for psu Power support: 8P interface: 220W max. DC interface: 150W max. Note: the power limit without ATX cable.
"It's a beaten up old laptop" nope, that's mint condition. I have a laptop from a friend that wanted to just throw with the case literally being held by adhesive tape, no screws. The hardware still works fine tho, so I just kept it instead of leaving it to die in the thrash
Cool idea, especially now that cd-roms are almost obsolete (or you can get a cheap external usb cd-rom). I have an extra ATX PS, and Desktop GPU. But not the space for this Dr. Frankenstein project. Cool review, next time try to show the finished project. Also there are various PCI-e slots which I found out when I bought a newer PCI-e SSD storage. The newer device needed more power than my pci-e supplied. But someone ws nice enough to make a 2.5" drive bay mod that worked. At the cost of having the old hard drives storage space. (Converted to a external usb back-up drive) Not as portable, again not a lot of desk space. It would be nice if manufacturers gave users more options for upgrades instead of less. Imagine if laptops had a special micro pci-e slot similar to a SD card slot. You could slide in an adapter like this without losing wifi or a cd-rom. With intel making better and better built-in GPUs on their chips, it has motivated AMD/Nvidia to make laptop GPUs more like the desktop counterparts. Maybe replacing a GPU in the future will be as simple as replacing your laptops wifi or RAM.
do you people have a list of boring pointless comments you go through, scanning the posted comments to see if there's one of the cliche comments on the list no one posted yet? "Hmm, someone already took the 'first' comment. let's see... all the quotes from the video are taken.... this guy already stole the 240p one... notification squad... nope. can it run crysis also taken... Oh! like to views ratio is still free!" HOW DO YOU PEOPLE WORK?
Thanks for the video, there are many devices like this and I really can't decide which is best, as their prices also vary greatly. 30$ isn't too much and it does provide good results
You're lucky your that your laptop didn't have a BIOS whitelist locking your mpcie port to only work with specific devices! Made this appear super easy! Laptops all the way up to haswell also used expressCard slots which make things even easier, definitely keep an eye out for one
I've been wanting one of these for a while now. BUT before you buy you need to make sure your laptop manufacture will support the mpci card. a lot of HP's will not boot with it so you may need the express card version. check the EXP GDC website for known tested laptops
The ExpressCard one sounds more convenient. Sad it's been done away with, but expansion on laptops isn't what it used to be. My old ThinkPad has an ExpressCard 34 port, so I may try this out sometime.
I have this dock hooked up to a Lenovo T540p through Expresscard slot with a GTX 960 and it's great value for the price, you'd get around 60% of the performance of the card. You may run into a lot of issues though for example electromagnetic interference crashing GPU signal due to the cheap HDMI to Expresscard cable forcing you to switch down to gen 1 speeds for better signalling. Another issue is bios freaking out if GPU is connected and powered so the only way to hook it up is to make the laptop sleep and wake it up while GPU is connected. But first and foremost is driver issues, I had to do a DSDT override for windows to even get it working, Nvidia has even locked the new 10 series GPUs after a certain driver update so they can't be used externally. You get what you pay for basically.
Might be useful if they made it work off a 100W laptop power supply and limit to cards that will work off 75W PCIE slot. It would be one hell of a lot cleaner. Laptop power supplies are cheap also.
Yellooo Now that you're trying some of the more weird stuff, and given your past affinity with Core 2 Quad CPU's, have you considered doing a video on BSEL modding one of those CPU's as a way to overclock them on OEM motherboards that don't usually offer any overclocking features on their BIOS?
Defininitely will be considering this to Upgrade my Lenovo B570 with an i7-2820QM. Just one note for people that are interested in this device: Version 8.0 of this GPU Adapter is NOT guaranteed work with GTX 1050 or 1050 Ti's. I'm hoping version 9.0 (If ever released) will fix this issue, but as of right now, GTX 10 Series of Cards are not 100% Guaranteed to work. Also, If you use an AMD card with this, you WILL need an External Monitor to get this to work. NVIDIA Cards are the ONLY GPUs that will work with the Laptop Display.
Keen to see how some more powerful cards go. Eg GTX 750ti/GTX 950/ RX460. I have an old laptop with an i5 processor and 8gb ram which may be ideal for this.
i have a tip to make a budget gaming pc way more powerful than that. bindive for pc parts behind pc shops. i spent months building one and every part is bindived. the specs: avp wolverine case (red) intel core 2 duo e8400 3.00ghz oc to 3.29ghz ( with an aftermarket tower cooler the local pc shops gave me for free as mit was just sitting there for ages apparently. socket 775 for ya) 4gb ddr2 800mhz ram nvidea gts 450 x2 in sli asus p5kpl mobo (bearing in mind i used sli hack to enable sli as the mobo is crossfire ready) 2tb seagate hdd (very rare to find i was lucky. i found it in a cyclone primus media player. was expecting a 500gb but hey ho 2tb is better) 160gb western digital hdd (from a pc i salvaged from the back of currys pc world) kolink 600w psu 80+ bronze also got a couple of prehpirals too. a cougar x200 keyboard was £30 aqprox gaming mouse £15 saitek cyborg evo (for no mans sky and elite dangerous) £15 corsair fan blu (free from my local pc shop they had spare) al in all, if you look carefully and have the patience you can make a decent low end gaming rig and i know some will say *upgrade to 8gb ram* well the mobo only supports max of 4gb coz its got a intel g31 chipset. planning to actually buy a core 2 quad q6600 in the system so i can play doom and fallout 4 soon. if you dont count the usb prehpirals then yeah didnt spend a dime on this thing. ill plan to make a vid about it on my channe soon if ur interested (sorry of it sounds like self advertising but i didnt know how else to say it lol if you dont believe me)
i gotta say that beginning showing a celeron on hd graphics 24fps on fallout 4 impressed me i used to have a amd a8 6410 laptop with 4gb ram that ran just like that low to medium settings 720p 30fps i thought an amd A series would destroy a laptop celeron
The FPS is much dependant on RAM , I have played GTA 4 with 6gb RAM on core 2 duo with 45 FPS and Nvidia geforce graphics 512mb. Try the shortcut to use readyboost feature in Windows , you can create extra 10FPS just by adding readyboost to your laptop. Cheers.
TBH the laptop was pretty good as standard, my old laptop couldn't even play minecraft on the lowest settings possible and lowest render distance at over 2fps lol.
Hi i was questioning about these and was hoping if you could make a video with somewhat of a good gpu(30 to 40 fps modern games) and intel pentium laptop if you can and also nice video
you are a fucking lad you never complain, you make quality videos and you don't sellout please never change. Much love from ireland
SDP PALADIN I knew you were from Ireland when you said "lad" lol same here
SDP PALADIN true this lad is the ladest lad i've ever seen
Hon the lads, cex and adverts for used bits, keep sorting each other out with pc bits. Be grand.x
team Ireland - belfast lad!!
Team Ireland Tyrone 🤜🏻
Celeron = Power Point Presentation
DanielC but only one presentation, the next time windows update has done it's work and the next thing you know it's throttling at 100% with word opened 🤣
My Pentium Silver is struggling to run word.
Fuck you dude
I have a 1060 can I install it on shitty laptop if I can this will be good because soon I'm gonna travel a lot
@@LoneWolf-vz7fb *nO u*
Try it with an Intel Atom Netbook....I wanna see just how far those pieces of plastic hell can be pushed.
Someone did with 1080 and it was awful, 30fps in Crysis on low
OMG I would love to see this!
I tried it on a metbook with an atom single core, using a GTX 660 as a GPU. CS-GO ran at around 50 on 720p.
Not a 1080. Pair a 1030 with it maybe 1050 but I doubt it.
The constant struggle of trying to decently run anything on Acer Ones.
Finally, the simplest video i ever found about External GPU
Superstars he does not show the struggle that is to set it up
+Magic mushroom I was thinking just that, and what versions of Windows will it run on, and how are the drivers for the device itself, and the drivers for the video card, and then disabling the internal GPU, and getting the laptops internal display to still run with the external GPU. Plus the wild mess of cables it leaves on your desk, and having to jumper a spare PSU which if you don't own one can add to the cost for a quality 450 watt 80+ Plus Bronze PSU costing an extra $40 US, or more, as I personally would not use anything less to be safe, then lets not forget having to take a laptop apart which for some models is no easy thing to do, and might need modding for that cable to have a spot to come out of which then means getting a Dremel tool, and cutting a hole for the cable to fit into.
Commodorefan64
I never managed to set it up my self and I'm no stranger to computers,
Had encountered many errors and it was like a maze solve one error to get the other. It all came down to windows bsod which had no fix error 0x00000001 when booting windows, hotpluging it will allow it the gpu to recognised and labeled as "working properly" and it was picked up by gpuz as a gpu in the computer however it was not being used and no valid information was shown besides the name and more generic info on the gpu. It was pretty useless as I couldn't switch to It, nvidea control panel recognised the gpu as being there but refused to open as "gpu was not being used" and I couldn't find any way to make my laptop use it so I gave up and sold it for a loss of 10$, going to buy a motherboard and gpu to complete my pc and just use that. I'm also in Canada so everything is just more expensive and it was 60$ for it :/
well, at least i knew that my laptop can have an external gpu :)
Superstars
hahaha, because he doesn't get what he is doing here. It's to hard to get how PCIe channel work i guess. You get how to reroute PCIe channels now? You get why 4x works in some cases, some not? how can you see if your board can get this PCIe connection?
I went all out and tested this with a 1070 gtx. On my Asus Rog G750 780m, I basically got a 4x increase in performance, but compare to a regular 1070 benchmark I'm only achieving between 70 and 80% of what is expected from this card. Still it's an amazing improvement that will let me push back my laptop upgrade of at least 2 years. This little piece of plastic is absolutely amazing for the price!
What's the name of this adapter?
overclock it if you want more performance,its safe they are made to do so
@@opcscott2875 i was thinking of doing that aswell
Man you forget the cpu and memory bottlenecks... With the same gpu and cpu even if you had a desktop then ll get the same perfomance
any bios setting did you change before install this external graphic card?
Finally a external GPU dock that isn't $200+
Edit: how did I get 800 likes on my crap comment?!?!?!?!
or $400 for a cool green light-up logo
Sonico Animation lol yup
Kevin Corrado an
This was here before the $200+ docks were lol
Kevin Corrado this has MANY drawbacks.
Someday I know that you will make it to a million subs. You deserve it.
Retro/Modern Gaming at its Finest I'm sorry, we don't care atm
Kevin Corrado he doesn't deserve shit if he can't even include a link in the description to the product he is trying out... Fucking hell what has happened to this website? Oh right, Google bought it years ago.
Just a User learn to stop expecting shit. Can't get things handed to you all the time even in this era. It's not so hard to Google "external laptop GPU dock" or something similar.
Just a User That is V E R Y. O F F E N S I V E
Master Xehanort haha, your probably right
Its a bit annoying that all youtube videos on this uses a laptop with a terrible cpu, i would like to see a video which has a laptop with an i5/i7 hooked up to an external card, to see the full capablity of the dock
fckoff yeah wanted to try on my i5 laptop too but turns out the mini PCI express port was even smaller and I couldn't connect the adapter
RandomGaminginHD oh rip
fckoff yeah checkout Lenovo think with egpu some insane results
@Retro/Modern Gaming at its Finest - fuck off cancer kid
Clark Azimut Increase the resolution, your CPU usage is going to decrease ^^
just a reminder though, with this adapter your using only a PCIE-x1 connection, and depending on how old or new it is, it can be either 3.0 or 2.0, which means if your only getting PCIE 2.0 at x1 itll be 32 times less bandwith then a full PCIE 3.0 x16, including it might be going through the North Bridge instead of the CPU's lanes which means its slower and USB, Hard Drives, and DVD Drives can slow it down even more
although either way, it'll be better then IGPU's
Yes, if anyone is serious about doing this you really should check what connection you have, there are some guides online. Otherwise it might not be worth it at all.
Laptops with Intel Sandy bridge and later should be able to run at pci-e 2.0 which is the reason I wouldn't recommend older systems.
Skylake and later are able to run at Pci-e 3.0 and these systems usually also have a M.2 port allowing Pci-express X4 eGPUs with the EXP GDC 9.0/PE4C 4.0
zwerne42 hey i have a 5th gen i3 laptop. It should be fine then right?
zwerne42 I've got an I5 4210U, will I be fine? My laptop is an Asus X555LA or something like that
Ganesh Sahane Yeah. But be aware of wireless card whitelists if you really want to do this. Egpu.io has info you may want to look.
Tiago Yes. The first number of a processor name shows it's generation. I3/I5/I7-2XXX and later are fine
you are what i can't, somebody who wants to make a lot of fun experiments with hardware. keep it up, WE LOVE YOUR VIDEOS 😍
I know you mentioned that older laptops have Expresscard, but this is actually a blessing for some as it is easier to insert and remove the expresscard versus taking your wifi card out. Also, you don't have to use an ATX power supply. If the card has low enough power draw you can use an external power brick with many of these.
I plan to do this soon with my laptop. I have a Dell XPS M1330 that I've pretty much upgraded as far as possible. Upgrades I have made are a 120 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM (those DDR2 SO-DIMMs are not cheap), Windows 10 Pro, and a Core 2 Duo T8300 (400 MHz bump from the original CPU). I would consider removing the optical drive to replace with a storage drive, but it is slot loading and I'm not sure if it is possible. I also purchased a new battery for it recently.
My understanding is that the Expresscard slot is equivalent to PCIe 2.0 x1. Certainly won't be a gaming beast, but any improvement is welcome. I plan to buy one and pair it with a low power graphics card like a GT 710 that should provide a boost from the Geforce 8400m that shipped with it.
i have bought this one with msi gtx 960, i paid about 140 dollars for them, got it working on my laptop which is 2011 samsung laptop with i7 2670qm 8gb ram and nvidia 520mx, cant be more happy, i was playing games with lowspecgamer tweaks, now i dont need any tweaks, games running very well for me, many thanks for lowspegamer.
2670qm is a beast of a sandy bridge cpu. Cheers.
how many fps did u get in modern titles?
gta 5, high, to very high everything exept textures on normal, 40-70 fps, 40 fps driving in town, out of car moving 60 fps stable
Wow.I got same laptop and I need a egpu.Can you please tell me how u rigged it up?
i was green about the egpu thing, i put everything in and power it on, black screen, had to change the switch on the beast, then it booted, i have it on my external display, when it booted i didnt find my gtx 960, i remember it was named something else in the settings of device manager, after some fiddling around i was able to install drivers, was trying everything like 5 hours till i found everything, now it runs fine, but has some bugs, like when putting pc to sleep it wont sleep, you cant disable 520mx through bios because bios is shit in that laptop.
Be careful when doing this on an HP laptop, they have a whitelist in the bios preventing the computer to boot if it detect anything connected to the mini pci-e port that is not one of their wireless adapters
Nice to know
dell has this too on some of their laptops.
any particular model?
lol, HP laptops suck in every possible way imaginable. Glad I didn't have any of them, just my friends
173k subs I came when you had around 2k subs and I can't believe how fast this channel grew , keep up the good work :D
Love this little device, thought about purchasing it but decided to build a pc instead.
you explain much better than other videos
how to set up an external gpu
Finally youtube wasnt 5 minutes late recommending a video!!!
i had this exact laptop for so many years! since I was like 8 until 13 or so, it was amazing at the time, i forced it to play so many things like Dishonored and dark souls, i don't know how I finished all the dark souls games (excluding 3) and put 190 hours into fallout new Vegas on that thing! i remember watching so many "boost your PC" videos, good times, i think i still have it around, thank you for the nostalgia trip, I'll try booting it up and see what's on it!
*Before buying this*
This device is extremely unstable and requires a combination of compatible hardware and luck, if you have amd cpu - u can't use It, Intel dual core cpu - performance is trash, old gpu - performance is trash, powerful gpu - performance hit and most likely won't work (gtx 980ti/titan), Amd gpu's require annoying set up and may not work, nvidea gpu's have higher chance at working, most likely you are going to run into errors when just getting It, you will need to do a dsdt overwrite if you use a 2gb+ video card, your computer may not even work with something else in the mpcie slot besides Wi-Fi card, power outage in your house will damage your computer And gpu with this working, you cannot use any new nvidea video cards 10xx or titan/Quadra based on Pascal (if you try an succed 1060 maybe the highest you use since higher will degrade performance because bandwith limitation). Understand all That? Well here are some more errors you can run into
Windows error 0x00000001
Blue screen of death
Black screen of death
Error 42
Error 43
Error 12
Won't work if you have non integrated gpu in your laptop
Gpu not detected
Randomly stops working
Gpu performing slow
Not enough resources on the bus
There are some of the problems you will expect when setting up, you will experience at least one or 2 of the above when using edpu dock and some of them can't be fixed.
You can have a chance at fixing it with setup 1.3x but that cost extra 20$
I have purchased this gpu and besides the 1 full month shipping fee was not able to get it working and ended up selli g it 3rd party for less than I bought it for, my view is not worth It, save up for a pc, you can buy a fx6300 and a motherboard as well as 16gb ram for it for cheap and pair it with a 1050 and that's 400$ but guaranteed to work
Holy shit that's a lot of text
zarif it's not even all of it I just got bored of typing
Just use laptop with Expresscard slot. I have Thinkpad T430 with I5 ( for now) EXP GDC with GTX 560 on Gen 1 speed ( gen 2 is buggy and won't work untill better cable or something- i am working on this). Also use external monitor- bus is used only once. I like this setup, it is better than my old laptop, and also if i need i only need to sleep
laptop and plug out Expresscard and i am free to go. Yes, i can't play newest games on 1080p high, but most games that i play, works better than on old laptop, and yes some games are totally incompatibile with this solution.(Arma 2, Dark Souls 3 sadly)
Magic mushroom Too good to be true huh?
I've got the exact same Acer laptop but I did buy it expressly for business use and webcam recording, not its gaming prowess. It came with Windows 8 (not 8.1 as it wasn't available at time of my purchase) which I later upgraded to Windows 10 and installed some software to stop Microsoft snooping on me. For lightweight use I find it pretty damn snappy actually and I love the laptop.
Ahh good ol' days when everyone played with 10 fps... :)
Now 60= Lag
@@blacksonikh4596 and 8 gb ram = low end
nice video dude, just a recomendation, since you are talking about the external GPU, I think, that it would be nice not only talk about the frame rate improve in the games, but also about things like if the processor get bottleneck or not with this graphic card, or show how much workload the processor and the graphics card have while you are playing. I think that this could be really helpful for the people with similar laptops to have and idea about how much they can push their own pc's.
You should try this on a better specced laptop just to see what would happen. There are plenty of laptops with good CPUs available (i3, i5, i7 even) but the graphics cards hold them back. Would be interesting to try it on one of those, using a better GPU as well. Would also be interesting to try this out on an older gaming laptop that's still mildly capable, but held back by the dated GPU.
Nice videos man. Love your channel and use it often to show people they can get into PC gaming without spending loads of money. I'm planning on making a video like this myself with my Toshiba Satellite l755-s5153. It currently has a Pentium B960 in it. I'm gonna upgrade it to an i7-2670qm (can be done as I've read it on a few forums). Then pair this with a 750 Ti or a 1030 so my GPU is super bottlenecked by the CPU and more on par with each other.
Again love your channel man, wish I had the time to do videos like these as well :)
*_Yasss!!!_* Finally proper eGpu review for budget gamers
I have been using an external GPU dock for over an year now for my laptop (i7 3632QM) and I'm very happy with it. Initially I also bought the GDC Beast but as I found out it has issues sometimes. What I mean by issues is the cable that is not soldered to the unit and my GPU drivers would pop errors from time to time and that resulted in the game crashing. After a couple of months I bought the PE4C V3.0 and this runs with no issues since the cable is soldered to the unit. It's more expensive but it is alot cheaper than any of those 200$+ docks out there. Plus I haven't seen any of those docks with mPCIE connector that I need. Sure the connection does bottleneck my GPU (GTX 1070) but it enabled me to play all the games that I want at 60FPS (with lower details but still).
As a reminder for anyone wanting to get one of these you should use an external monitor as well since the performance is about 20% lower when using the built in monitor (it only works with nvidia cards on internal monitors anyway if I'm not mistaken) . Adding this performance loss to the already existing loss of performance from the connection is alot. Also you don't really need a PC power supply. I bought a DELL DA-2 Series D220P-01 (216W) power supply adapter for 15-20$ that is alot smaller and less cables to worry about.
One final thing is to stay away from GTX 1050 and GTX 1050Ti. Last time I checked those had issues since nvidia did something to their newer drivers to break eGPU docks. Any other nvidia model works nice since you can install older drivers and update to latest after that. Since the GTX 1050/1050Ti were last to come out those older drivers don't support those cards. I don't know if anyone found a solution to this I haven't been researching lately. A usefull forum for any eGPU stuff is www.techinferno.com
Thanks mate that explain help me very well
Lowspecgamer also did this
adam fitzpatrick yeah saw his video a while back, loads of people asked me to try it too and it looked too fun to pass haha
On his last video someone suggest you and him do a collaboration video to which he said it "would be a dream come true" :D
RandomGaminginHD link to buy
Yusuke Yurameshi I'm here too and I will always be, in the shadows
@Fenno Graas Here you go www.amazon.com/XCSOURCE-External-Independent-Graphics-AC774/dp/B071RTC9HP/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1504468416&sr=8-2&keywords=EXP+GDC+External+Graphics+Card+Adapter
thank you brotha for being one of the only youtube tutorials with understandable accent hahaha
Yay ! You know what ? i was searching about Egpu when i saw your popup, you're my favorite google add 😀😊
That's a very budget friendly upgrade... All you need is a small customised casing for the unit
Been with you since 90k love you bro keep up the vids
that's not that long ago
That looks seriously amazing! The setup looks weird as hell but im glad someone bothered doing this thing.
This seems like too much hassle for a laptop to be honest.
Honestly it is, but I like to think of it like this - its not about the destination, its about the journey. Like it might be so much of a hassle to do this, but its worth it to learn what it takes to make this work and the fact you can modify a laptop to game.
True to bad there isn't a connector to just hookup
Lukong expresscard
Building a PC or upgrading one is always a hassle whether it be a laptop or a desktop.
That's true but unfortunately i am still a kid trying to make money this is the only way for me to make and publish games
I have one of these. I made my laptop into a gaming laptop with it. I also screwed the slot onto the back of the laptop and made the video board work with the built in screen. It is the "ExpressCard" one and the whole setup works well with a "HD 5750". I will put a link here so that you can click on it and see it some time later.
Here it is:
reckoners.ddns.net/laptop.html
GTA IV with external GPU upgraded is much more like playing GTA IV on Console (PS3/X360)
@biscuit shut up, gta v kid player, gta san andreas is the best and the iv is the second
Great video, I've seen other youtubers screw up this topic.
Great to see a working recommendation
How does the laptops monitor receive all the data from gpu? Is there anything connected to the back of gpu? I dont get it. The gpu receives data from that express port on motherboard, but how the laptop gets it back? We all know that you have to connect the monitor to the gpu for it to work
This is a great question, go google "Nvidia Optimus". That should help you find the answer to that.
Paulius Ragauskas intel Hd graphic is still active and it copy picture from discrate gpu to laptop screen.
"The gpu receives data from that express port on motherboard, but how the laptop gets it back?"
PCIe goes both ways, what's to wonder about here? It's a full-duplex connection, so signals can go in both directions at the same time. Not that I'm any kind of expert, I'm probably getting it wrong, but I don't see why the GPU wouldn't just send the result back the same way.
Tadeusz Kantor well on desktops, gpu receives data from pcie, and sends it thru hdmi or dispay port to monitor, i dont get it how laptop screen receives it, since the pcie port is really small, and i don't think it can go both ways
Paulius Ragauskas, It can go both ways, I am sure of that.
Great vid! I really like it how your gaming and PC setup habits are similar to mine. It helps me build decent rigs for the price. Keep up the simple but informative and concise format. Cheers from the Philippines!
oh. My. God. I have that laptop in my house! I'm writing this comment on that laptop! now to get one of those cos I can't game on this thing!
What laptop model is it?
What laptop model is it?
This. This is the reason why I signed up for this channel. Beast. I love it.
try the gpd win
Steven Reviews omg yes
How 'bout GPD Pocket?
Steven Reviews he can't it doesn't have pci
Steven Reviews dude RGIHD liked it. so i think he'll definitely make the video... nice suggestion mate..!!
+Minty Nuggets
It does have USB-C though
Thanks mate .....I requested for an egpu video in the first gtx 580 video few days ago and viola you made it..best budget gaming channel
keep going
Any chance of hooking up your GTX 1060 for shits and giggles? If it feels to risky (i.e. GTX 1060 goes kaput) I'd totally understand.
FONVash I tried it too haha, it seemed that the massive bottleneck caused unbearable stutter
can u do video on the gpu that can play pubg , i want to buillt this setup but i wondering that cheap gpu that can run this thing and can play pubg . thanks :)
FONVash you can do higher then a 1060, but with a CPU like that you won't see full Performance of that 1060. The highest card I'd use would be either the 1050, or 1050 TI (people report a error 43 issue with the 1050 TI due to the drivers).
can't seem to make any cards work but my 760ti... tried as high as GTX 1080 system just cannot make it work. and its an I7 laptop
@@madmax2069
So can i use the GTX 1050 ti on that product or that will do a bottleneck
Love how inventive this guy is, keep it up man. I would love to see Intel T cpu's benchmarks with turbo ON and OFF vs Intel K cpu's.
Should have a Celeron D with a GTX 1080 ti
This is very nice. It kind of takes away the mobility from the notebook, but it's still very cool.
Your lowest spec laptop is my most powerful laptop ;-;
(Desktop's an i7+750Ti+16GB combo, don't worry).
Trash desktop
I saw this video at lowspecgamer but i like ur attitude more ;)
Im noob at bottleneck but , why dont u try for example a 2core 4 threats i5 laptop with htat dock and with a gt 1030? is that a good idea?
Gerardo Marca he did off camera, but his i5 laptop's WiFi card used a different form factor connector, making it incompatible.
Gerardo Marca gt 1030 probably won't work since it's new architecture and 10xx cards have problems with egp, just Google 1030 gaming performance and subtract 20% of the number of frams in a certain game and that's about how much drama you get with this
you cant use the 1030 nvidia blocked any card newer than a 1060. You should go with a rx 460 560 or 550. It can almost run a 560 at full so id go with that.
Steve!
Thanks for uploading again,you just made my day!
People need to stop asking for their comment to be pinned
HeroicInfernape agreed
Yes
If only you could benchmark an i3 7100u like this.
Awesome video
My moms going to kill me if I took apart her office laptop just for a gaming 🤣🤣. Can I mod my acer aspire e 14 this method? Or should I change the cpu as well?
The CPU is probably soldered in so you might not be able to change it.
I've been following this peripheral for a good while, I hope they eventually make one that has a more convenient power solution.
*Biggest issue is missing H key lol*
You are awesome for showing this device. I can play current games on my Crapcer (crappy Acer) after I fix the Windows 10 issue.
lod laptop
I had no idea something like this even existed. Flawless video.
Rhd 30fps playable and smooth! Llt 120fps @ 4k ok! Really some people has different taste for being budget gamer! Llt spend 20k$ for games rhd spend 20$ for games and enjoy it !
Kuntal ghosh the funny thing is, 30 fps loocked smooth and very playable on my old laptop, then i got a highend rig (r5 1600,gtx 1080, 3440x1440). Now everything under 60 fps ( even 50) looks laggy and bad LOL
Manuel Auer R5 1600 with gtx1080 is bad, something like an i5 or i7 is better for gaming as always I got ryzen 7 1700 and gtx1080 for high end PC that can handle what ever I throw at it!
I know that feeling. My "playable" FPS depends on the game, and how well the game runs at said FPS. I am happy if my flight sims can stay around 30 FPS but I like my fast paced E-Sports games to stay near 60.
30 is playable. But I'd still prefer 60 and above, it just feels smoother specially when playing shooters.
Another great video,You are my fav youtuber for pc stuff.
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Microsoft Defender
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Hey there I wanted to add this as cheaper and cleaner way to power the GDC EXP you can use a Dell D220P-01 N112H DA-2 Series power adapter they are around $9~$15 on ebay and all they are is a laptop like adapter that carries 12v 220w power and has a 8-Pin plug. they were made for USFF Optiplex systems back in the early to mid 2000s or you can use a 150w Gaming Laptop PS as well (as long as it's a 12v version).
What PSU do we need for the GC ? It's should be less than a desktop one, no ?
Yeah, basically just the needed power of the Graphics Card, which normally wont get directly named, just the TDP, which is, especially nowadays, pretty useless, but I would still recommend buying a PSU with about 1.5 times the TDP in watts.
Hardream it does not matter what psu you use, any psu on the market will do the job
Hardream if it has a 24 pin thats all you need, especially for a pci power only gpu. I have a very unconventional setup with one of these docks, mini pcie to mini pci with a radeon hd 3450, powered by a 100w pico power supply
midly mad skunk you don't need the 24 pin connector for this, all you need is the 4pin *cpu* connector, the motherboard 20+4 pin connector is only for telling psu to power on (green wire on the 20pin connector Is the power on/off wire, the extra 4pin motherboard connecotr you pull away and don't use, if you even try to use it it won't fit and if u force it nothing will happen since it does not carry enough power.)
you can use 12v dc power adapter like laptop one,no need for psu
Power support:
8P interface: 220W max.
DC interface: 150W max.
Note: the power limit without ATX cable.
"It's a beaten up old laptop" nope, that's mint condition. I have a laptop from a friend that wanted to just throw with the case literally being held by adhesive tape, no screws. The hardware still works fine tho, so I just kept it instead of leaving it to die in the thrash
Lowspecgamer did this
Wow such an important comment
tons of people have done this
Cool idea, especially now that cd-roms are almost obsolete (or you can get a cheap external usb cd-rom).
I have an extra ATX PS, and Desktop GPU. But not the space for this Dr. Frankenstein project.
Cool review, next time try to show the finished project.
Also there are various PCI-e slots which I found out when I bought a newer PCI-e SSD storage. The newer device needed more power than my pci-e supplied. But someone ws nice enough to make a 2.5" drive bay mod that worked. At the cost of having the old hard drives storage space. (Converted to a external usb back-up drive)
Not as portable, again not a lot of desk space.
It would be nice if manufacturers gave users more options for upgrades instead of less.
Imagine if laptops had a special micro pci-e slot similar to a SD card slot. You could slide in an adapter like this without losing wifi or a cd-rom.
With intel making better and better built-in GPUs on their chips, it has motivated AMD/Nvidia to make laptop GPUs more like the desktop counterparts.
Maybe replacing a GPU in the future will be as simple as replacing your laptops wifi or RAM.
yup... 50 likes ans 3 views..
RUclips logic
Cobra Tactics there is only 19 likes
FalloutExo17 xD
do you people have a list of boring pointless comments you go through, scanning the posted comments to see if there's one of the cliche comments on the list no one posted yet?
"Hmm, someone already took the 'first' comment. let's see... all the quotes from the video are taken.... this guy already stole the 240p one... notification squad... nope. can it run crysis also taken... Oh! like to views ratio is still free!"
HOW DO YOU PEOPLE WORK?
GraveUypo shut the fck up biatch!
Thanks for the video, there are many devices like this and I really can't decide which is best, as their prices also vary greatly. 30$ isn't too much and it does provide good results
I thought this was lowspecgamer for about a minute, then I noticed the voice.
You're lucky your that your laptop didn't have a BIOS whitelist locking your mpcie port to only work with specific devices! Made this appear super easy! Laptops all the way up to haswell also used expressCard slots which make things even easier, definitely keep an eye out for one
they where think hmmmmm i bet someone is going to run a freakin cable throught the whole laptop!!!!!!!! lol i love this guy
This definitely gonna void my laptop's warranty... time to steal some old laptop from my annoying neighbor...
This is useful only for really old, low-end laptops, but considering millions of people have those, yeah, it's pretty useful.
The card design is lit af
I've been wanting one of these for a while now. BUT before you buy you need to make sure your laptop manufacture will support the mpci card. a lot of HP's will not boot with it so you may need the express card version. check the EXP GDC website for known tested laptops
The ExpressCard one sounds more convenient. Sad it's been done away with, but expansion on laptops isn't what it used to be. My old ThinkPad has an ExpressCard 34 port, so I may try this out sometime.
I have this dock hooked up to a Lenovo T540p through Expresscard slot with a GTX 960 and it's great value for the price, you'd get around 60% of the performance of the card. You may run into a lot of issues though for example electromagnetic interference crashing GPU signal due to the cheap HDMI to Expresscard cable forcing you to switch down to gen 1 speeds for better signalling. Another issue is bios freaking out if GPU is connected and powered so the only way to hook it up is to make the laptop sleep and wake it up while GPU is connected. But first and foremost is driver issues, I had to do a DSDT override for windows to even get it working, Nvidia has even locked the new 10 series GPUs after a certain driver update so they can't be used externally. You get what you pay for basically.
I knew you was going to do this soon or later. Great video :)
That's cool
LinusTechTips Hasn't Showed This
So Cool That You Have
External GPUs need to become huge! If only they could be more affordable without sacrificing so much power.
Ooook nice. But where is my Wi-Fi now? 😂
Might be useful if they made it work off a 100W laptop power supply and limit to cards that will work off 75W PCIE slot. It would be one hell of a lot cleaner. Laptop power supplies are cheap also.
Yellooo
Now that you're trying some of the more weird stuff, and given your past affinity with Core 2 Quad CPU's, have you considered doing a video on BSEL modding one of those CPU's as a way to overclock them on OEM motherboards that don't usually offer any overclocking features on their BIOS?
Please check out more of these strange PCI devices!
Defininitely will be considering this to Upgrade my Lenovo B570 with an i7-2820QM.
Just one note for people that are interested in this device:
Version 8.0 of this GPU Adapter is NOT guaranteed work with GTX 1050 or 1050 Ti's. I'm hoping version 9.0 (If ever released) will fix this issue, but as of right now, GTX 10 Series of Cards are not 100% Guaranteed to work.
Also, If you use an AMD card with this, you WILL need an External Monitor to get this to work. NVIDIA Cards are the ONLY GPUs that will work with the Laptop Display.
Keen to see how some more powerful cards go. Eg GTX 750ti/GTX 950/ RX460.
I have an old laptop with an i5 processor and 8gb ram which may be ideal for this.
Gday. Thanks for doing this video . Ive been looking around for DIY GPU for laptop solution
i have a tip to make a budget gaming pc way more powerful than that. bindive for pc parts behind pc shops. i spent months building one and every part is bindived. the specs:
avp wolverine case (red)
intel core 2 duo e8400 3.00ghz oc to 3.29ghz ( with an aftermarket tower cooler the local pc shops gave me for free as mit was just sitting there for ages apparently. socket 775 for ya)
4gb ddr2 800mhz ram
nvidea gts 450 x2 in sli
asus p5kpl mobo (bearing in mind i used sli hack to enable sli as the mobo is crossfire ready)
2tb seagate hdd (very rare to find i was lucky. i found it in a cyclone primus media player. was expecting a 500gb but hey ho 2tb is better)
160gb western digital hdd (from a pc i salvaged from the back of currys pc world)
kolink 600w psu 80+ bronze
also got a couple of prehpirals too. a cougar x200 keyboard was £30
aqprox gaming mouse £15
saitek cyborg evo (for no mans sky and elite dangerous) £15
corsair fan blu (free from my local pc shop they had spare)
al in all, if you look carefully and have the patience you can make a decent low end gaming rig and i know some will say *upgrade to 8gb ram* well the mobo only supports max of 4gb coz its got a intel g31 chipset. planning to actually buy a core 2 quad q6600 in the system so i can play doom and fallout 4 soon.
if you dont count the usb prehpirals then yeah didnt spend a dime on this thing. ill plan to make a vid about it on my channe soon if ur interested (sorry of it sounds like self advertising but i didnt know how else to say it lol if you dont believe me)
i gotta say that beginning showing a celeron on hd graphics 24fps on fallout 4 impressed me i used to have a amd a8 6410 laptop with 4gb ram that ran just like that low to medium settings 720p 30fps i thought an amd A series would destroy a laptop celeron
He's like the only RUclipsr that says leave a dislike if u didn't thanks
This is one of those I got a exspensive laptop back in the day then and cant afford a new build and got this instead.
make longer videos i really enjoy them :)
The FPS is much dependant on RAM , I have played GTA 4 with 6gb RAM on core 2 duo with 45 FPS and Nvidia geforce graphics 512mb. Try the shortcut to use readyboost feature in Windows , you can create extra 10FPS just by adding readyboost to your laptop. Cheers.
TBH the laptop was pretty good as standard, my old laptop couldn't even play minecraft on the lowest settings possible and lowest render distance at over 2fps lol.
Hi i was questioning about these and was hoping if you could make a video with somewhat of a good gpu(30 to 40 fps modern games) and intel pentium laptop if you can and also nice video
Good for you mate,U bought it for my laptop,but my laptop uses m.2 for wifi.I'm so disappointed about it.Yeah THANK YOU HP FOR THAT
nice video as always :D thanks RGHD
I forgot how nice Oblivion looks
Hey RGHD! Since you already knew lowspecgamer's video. I was wondering if both of you should do a collab 😂
Anyways good video!
That GTA IV physics XD!