Hi all,
I know laptops are not meant for gaming, but I'm stuck with a laptop right now due to school. Anyways, I heard that you can hook up graphics cards to laptops using some some kind of connecting piece. Does anyone know anything about how this works or where I can buy the connecter? Also would I need to buy like a cheap little psu for the card? I haven't built any comps lately, what would be a good card for less than $200 that can max out bf3? ive got a nvidia 540gtm in the laptop right now, what is that comparable too? how does this compare to a 6870 or something else around that range?
my laptop specs are
Asus K53S
i7-2630QM 2 ghz (up to 2.7)
6gb ram
win7 64 bit
nvidia gt 540m
jstamm33
There's a few PCI-E to ExpressCard slot adapter solutions. DIY eGPU experiences from forum.notebookreview.com
One of the main issues with external graphics card is how the laptop allocates PCI address resource to the ExpressCard i.e. a GPU needs 256MB address block.
DIY eGPU solution could be cheap enough to test on your Sandybridge era ASUS K53S.
My personal list success eGPU rates
1. ASUS G1SN = fail, BIOS not behaving like desktop PC BIOS.
2. ASUS N80VN = fail, BIOS not behaving like desktop PC BIOS.
3. Sony Vaio VGN FW45 = OK without work arounds.
4. Dell Studio XPS 1645 = OK without work around. I have access to two Dell Studio XPS 1645 machines.
On DIY eGPU success list, there's an ASUS M60J laptop with external Geforce 465 GTX GPU solution.
ASUS M60J link
From ASUS K53S review, it doesn't have ExpressCard slot i.e. ASUS removed it. :(
You could use the internal mini-PCI-E slots but that could be tricky i.e. internal mini-PCI-E slot to PCI-E slot adapter with laptop case mod (wire access hole). I don't think laptop vendors are interested with ExpressCard GPU upgradeloop hole.
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