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    Ryzen 5 2600 @4.2Ghz
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    Asus Strix GTX 1070 TI
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    Yes but a cheap one will do since it only needs to power the GPU
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    hmm you can get a good 10 series for that price normally. 1070 or 1080 maybe even a 16 series.
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    Should yes, but since this is always going to be slightly janky they might not be willing to do it Some are, some use USB 3.0 cables (just the cables not actually a USB connection) Those might be better, just having a cut out on the bottom of your laptop revealing two usb ports. You'll need to make a stand to accommodate the wires when in use but... since external GPU's aren't a mobile solution anyways...
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    There are more elegant adapters these days but... This is what we are talking about. Ideally find one that you can easily connect and disconnect from the laptop by making a small incision in the laptop's case.
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    From my experience it will just work like any PCIe port. But I've only ever tried this with one laptop so it might just of been lucky that mine supports it. But unless the port is deliberately disabled when the PC starts up if no drive is detected... (I don't see a valid reason to do this) There should be no issue other than restricted bandwith. Pcie x4 or worse x2 vs pcie x16. Though the impact on fps should be relatively minimal.
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    Then you're all good just use the second one for the GPU.
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    Well you have 1 m.2 slot that will work pretty much for sure. But right now we are arguing about you being able to still connect a drive with windows while using that for the GPU.
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    I don't know about unused Sata ports, but if it's a sodimm slot task manager maybe. But then it's highly inaccurate in my case so I wouldn't trust it. (my system has 8gb soldered onto the MB and 1 sodimm slot populated with a 4gb sodimm, Yet taskmanager reports 2/4 slots used.
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    that sounds like an unpopulated dimm slot. That's for system memory not high speed storage. Can you do that? I occasionally open my laptop and swap around the drives (pull out my nvme drive, and swap my sata SSD for one with a windows instal) so I can use desktop expansion cards over the M.2 port. My adapter won't fit in my wifi card's slot as it's keyed differently.
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    The big issue here is that your m.2 slots seems to be used by your C drive, and I don't see any sata ports listed on that spec sheet you posted for your laptop. So even if you connect a GPU via the M.2 port... I don't think there will be room left for the boot drive.
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    Nope USB works very differently from thunderbolt and wouldn't support this use case. You'll need to try the M.2 route
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    Thunderbolt is a type of port for connecting an external device... Think of it like USB on steroids. A thunderbolt eGPU is a gpu in an external enclosure designed to connect to a PC with a thunderbolt connection. If you laptop has no thunderbolt then you'll need to convert an NVMe M.2 port to an PCIe x16 slot for a GPU. The M.2 port needs to be NVMe otherwise it won't support a PCIe connection.
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    yeah that definitely looks like a ribbon cable issue to me. I'd actually go so far as to say it's probably just loose rather than damaged. I wouldn't even bother with the light test anymore. Thought if you want to go ahead it can't hurt. What's your laptop model ? depending on how it's assembled you might be able to tell by pushing down on the case in specific spots while the screen is "distorted" as you say.
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    if an external display works as you said you can safely conclude it's not your GPU. I'm curious about what you mean by "Screen distorted", if you are sometimes getting a messy image from tilting your screen I'd assume it's the ribbon cable. Except for dead/stuck pixels or being cracked there isn't much that can go wrong with the LCD panel it's self. What I would like you to try is shinning light on the black screen (when it's supposed to be lit) from various angle too see if you can make out an image. If you do it's your screen's inverter that is at fault, Might need a new inverter might just need a new power cable for it.
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