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Hello Community, I have an old MacBook Pro 15', early 2009 or late 2008 to be exact, and i have the problem that my Bluetooth module is either not working or not installed. I have asked multiple times on the official Apple Website, a Chat with a supporter and a 'Forum Question', or however its called. Both times they mentioned that my Mac was in the category 'obsolete', wich means i can't get support for it anymore from Apple. So i thought that you, the Community, had some ideas on wich adapter i should use. I did some research, but i didn't find anything suitable.
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I was wondering if anyone knows of a 34mm expresscard that could work with a Lenovo t410. My model t410 does not have native Bluetooth, and I was hoping to add it through my unused 34mm expresscard slot. I don't have much to add asides from that. If you know of a model or even have a link, please post it. Thanks!
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Which of these two slots has more bandwidth and by how much?
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Every time I mention that I have a Vega 64 running over expresscard (PCIe 2.0 1x) everyone immediately points out how "There's no reason to use a Vega 64 because it will get so bottlenecked by the PCIe 1x interface it's basically useless" or similar comments, I've even seen people say an RX 480/580 is too much for expresscard and you should just use a 570/560 etc. So I happened to have a PCIe 2.0 motherboard, a mining riser, and a Vega 64 (and a 480 but I didn't really test that besides a few benchmarks that Ill throw in from when I originally built my laptop eGPU setup). KEEP IN MIND, THIS IS AMD SPECIFIC, NVIDIA CARDS BEHAVE COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY TO LOW BANDWIDTH. I DON'T HAVE ANY HIGH END NVIDIA CARDS TO TEST, BUT FROM MY EXPERIENCE WITH A 1080 IT WAS AWFUL (40-50% PERFORMANCE LOSS) THOUGH I HAVE SEEN PEOPLE WITH MUCH HIGHER SCORES (ONLY A 25% PERFORMANCE LOSS). Ok, now that I got that out of the way: The system I tested with is my media center/mining PC (it usually has the 480 in it), it's a pretty low end system (I upgraded to my Precision Laptop from it) with an i5-4430 and 8GB of RAM, every test was ran on the same system with the same monitor, power supply, everything. I am aware you can't directly compare results from modern systems because I am SURE there is at least some CPU bottlenecking here, but THIS IS A TEST OF BANDWIDTH. So here are some games/Benchmarks I tested so far: (all settings are the same but are not given because stuff like minecraft and GTA are a pain to write out each setting, therefore you can't compare them directly to other benchmarks BUT AGAIN, I'M COMPARING PERFORMANCE WITH DIFFERENT PCIe BANDWIDTH) Valley Benchmark (Ultra, no AA): PCIe 16x: Min: 28.5 Max: 140.0 Avg: 87.3 Score: 3651 PCIe 1x: Min: 23.1 Max: 117.3 Avg: 72.5 Score: 3035 3DMark Firestrike (I only show graphics score because the cpu score does not matter? PCIe 16x: GT1: 111.28 GT2: 85.87 Graphics Score: 22,296 PCIe 1x: GT1: 103.26 GT2: 82.54 Graphics Score: 21,102 Minecraft (Shaders + FoamFix): PCIe 16x: Staring at house: 77 Running around area: 60-75 PCIe 1x: Staring at house: 78 Running around area: 55-65 GTA V (High/Very High, NO AA): PASS # | MIN | MAX | AVG (FPS) PCIe 16x PASS 0 | 11.35 | 75.03 | 63.27 PASS 1 | 47.68 | 84.80 | 74.13 PASS 2 | 52.27 | 103.2 | 75.48 PASS 3 | 50.28 | 110.6 | 85.22 PASS 4 | 27.14 | 136.4 | 75.25 PCIe 1x PASS 0 | 11.90 | 79.06 | 61.23 PASS 1 | 41.18 | 131.7 | 72.16 PASS 2 | 29.32 | 98.42 | 65.20 PASS 3 | 37.10 | 132.0 | 78.54 PASS 4 | 19.64 | 144.5 | 70.08 Based on these results: there is anywhere from a 0% to ~18% performance loss depending on the game/benchmark, with Valley Benchmark actually being the largest difference (~18%) and minecraft being the smallest (0%, though it's minecraft so does it really count as a GPU benchmark...) Basically all I've shown is YES! you CAN use high end (AMD) gpus over expresscard/mPCIe with a lot less bottlenecking than everyone seems to think, though it's obviously not a perfect solution as there is still some performance loss but it's actually a LOT closer to thunderbolt than one might assume... (And yes, Linus's video where he says anything other than the NVMe eGPU solution is useless really pissed me off, like REALLY?! you couldn't even fucking test it!) Edit: I retested GTA V with everything pretty much maxed to see if that effected things and there is a noticeable difference now, up to ~30% in the worst case scenario, putting it only slightly slower than thunderbolt from what I've seen. Instead of me saying "It really doesn't matter and the performance is still great" I should really say: If you are using anything less than a Vega 56 (RX 580/480, etc.) It doesn't make a big enough difference for it to matter HOWEVER if you are running a Vega or Navi I recommend using an M.2 NVMe based solution even over a thunderbolt one, it's cheaper and has the same bandwidth (4x PCIe 3.0) but without the overhead of thunderbolt making the performance noticably better than thunderbolt. And even then I still think using even high end cards over expresscard is what i'm still useful, I'm calling it poor-man's thunderbolt because of it's hotswapability and ease of use compared to NVMe while costing way WAY less than thunderbolt...
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I can not for the life of me figure out how to solve this: I have a Vega 64 and an Expresscad eGPU (EXP GDC Beast v8.5c), if I use PCIe Gen 2 (4Gbps) while under any sort of load the screen will randomly go black, and restart the driver, windows reports it as "Display driver amdkmdap stopped responding and has successfully recovered.", I am using an EVGA 500W PSU (480W on 12V) which I know isn't the recommended PSU but it should be more than enough and the card only draws ~350-375W under load. if I start a 3D app like Valley Benchmark or Furmark after a minute or so it will freeze and the driver will restart. I have tried just about everything I can find short of buying a new Expresscard dock (and no, even though my laptop has 3 mPCIe slots, I could not get an mPCIe adapter to work (Precision M6700). I might stop at best buy and buy an overpriced 750W PSU for testing and just return it if it doesn't work (and hell, probably return it and buy one for cheaper if it does work). I need any help I can get, I had an RX 480 before this and it works on gen 2 without issue, gen 1 seems to work ok apart from certain games (Hitman 2 and UNO of all things) forcibly shutting down the PSU and therefore killing power to the GPU and crashing windows. Things I've tried: Wrapping both the dock and data cable in aluminum foil Ferrite cores on data and power cables surge protectors different areas with less electronic devices a UPS different 500W and 400W power supplies (I only have up to 500W ones) combination of a 500W PSU and a 400W PSU moving the dock and PSU physically further apart reinstalling drivers using older drivers using beta drivers changing PCIe Link power saving settings changing TdrDelay in the registry booting into windows 7 chainloading from DIY eGPU Setup 1.35 and mPCIe to 16x riser (this didn't work at all, not even detected in DIY eGPU setup, the adapter is old, it might be faulty but I need my eport dock anyway so mPCIe wouldn't work for my needs) Underclocking the GPU -50% power limit +50% power limit undervolting Brand new 650W CX650M PSU (made no difference) (Yes, the cards works just fine in a normal system, ran Valley for over an hour with 0 issues on the same 500W PSU) I think that's it, ill add things if I remember others, if anyone has ANY ideas please chime in, I am utterly baffled that an RX 480 works completely fine with the exact same setup but I cannot get my Vega 64 to work. Edit: Just went to bestbuy and bought a brand new CX650M (it was the only thing they had that wasn't $150+) and it made no difference (so I returned it)
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?Hi Linus Sebastian, I really love ur show. Constantly watch first thing in the mornings, every day. Beautiful. Seen ur recent God-like Aventium, got cracked to the balls. I need some help on EXP GDC on my Lenovo Thinkpad X220 with Expresscard. I have bought an EXP GDC without power supply because I have a 220 watt SMPS from my old ATX cabinet, in which I am planning to install the EXP GDC beast with SMPS and graphics card. https://www.gearbest.com/laptop-accessories/pp_229102.html?wid=1433363 Questions: 1. I was wondering if the 220 watt would suffice the need? 2. I'm planning for a bigger GPU, like a 1060 or 1050ti. Will this work on the Beast and SMPS? Or will I need a bigger 500 watt power supply? Or should I go only with the 970 and below GPUs as 10xx will not support, maybe? 3. What is the possibility of an Error 43 or Error xx, which I may encounter, just to know beforehand , and how to resolve it? I have seen a few answers on the net, but not very satisfied and it's very confusing. Thank you, Karthik Prabhakar
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Hey there! I have a Lenovo Y560 Laptop with a 34mm ExpressCard Slot on it. I was wondering if there was a way to either make it thunderbol compatable with an adapter or have a GPU adapter card for the slot. Thanks! Gauntlet
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Got an express card slot on this old beast, it seems that usb 3.0 adapters aren't viable because there is not enough power delivery from the port? I was thinking maybe I could find some adapter to put a sim card in there? I may be way off I just recently found out I had one. What uses have you found for an express card?
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so whilst looking around for eGPU solutions for my laptop because the R7 m350(its actiually some fire pro card but the AMD drivers show R7 m350 lol) i found out about expresscard because you could run eGPUs using it, and my laptop has this strange port thats never adressed on the HP site for the laptop so here is a picture and if anyone could indentify what it is that would be awesome and i REALLY hope its an expresscard port because then i can run a GTX 660 instead of the shit GPU in the laptop(yes i know about power and i am prepared to carry a PSU or whatever) thanks for any replies and any help
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Does anyone have experience with external GPU's for laptops specifically express card slot interface?
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Hello everybody, i'm in need of assistance with getting my eGPU setup working ill list stuff i already tried, the hardware and software versions i'm using and my issue below: The issue im expiriencing is the Error code 12 (Not enough system resources.) I understand that there are 2 options. 1.) First being i use a DSDT override to expand the root bridge into a 36 bit space and blah blah blah. 2.) And second to use setup 1.x and do the compaction thing that program does. Problem here is that the maker of this wants $25 for it and i really wanna avoid buying more. I have tried the DSDT override (Here) with what i can see is success. It added the Large memory section like it should have, however it did not fix my issues with the eGPU. At the end of that guide i have attempted all the troubleshooting except getting setup 1.x. I am not in a position as of now to build a rig so please do not suggest that, and in the description for my eGPU adapter it was supposed to be compatible with my system and the GPU i have here. The system is an HP EliteBook 8440P it has: Intel core i5 540M @ 2.5 GHz 8 GB of DDR3 Memory Windows 7 Pro SP 1 64-Bit Intel HD graphics eGPU setup is: EXP GDC Beast from BangGood.com with a Zotac GT740 2 GB DDR3 128-Bit GPU As an extra note that i'm not sure will be of any help to you, my setup does work with 2 GB of ram. However for games and alike i cannot just sacrifice 3/4 of my ram for better graphics. Anything that may help me is welcome, and i thank you all for reading this and really really thankful for you people who take their time to help me with this setup.
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I was looking for a mobile solution to take a graphic card plus a computer to my high school business department to push 6 1080p monitors for a game of League of Legends The new MSI GS30 Shadow and Alienware Graphic Amplifier is too expensive. So I dig around in Google for other solution. Then I found a company in China on taobao.com that sales a product called EXP GDC. It allows laptops with an expresscard slot, Mini-PCI-E, NGFF or mini PC with PCI-E x1 slot to accept a PCI-E x16 Graphics card externally. http://expgdc.taobao.com/index.htm?spm=a1z10.3-c.w5002-7098247987.2.t4LISj Since I have a Lenovo ThinkPad x201 with an ExpressCard Slot I immediately purchased it. The EXP GDC Beast v6.1 unit plus silver case and an extra PSU plug converter costs me 488 RMB, about 70USD. The package arrived yesterday and I began assembly. The Unit itself installed inside the silver case. From left to right HDMI port for the ExpressCard or other data transfer, an extra USB port for you to plug in stuff, DC-in for laptop adapters, Power Supply input, and power output for the 6+8 Pin graphics card. ExpressCard to plug into the slot on Laptop. Hex screwdriver and its special screws to install the unit into the silver box. ATX power supply to that specialized 8-pin power input. The adapter for the 6-pin output to a 6+8 pin for Graphics card The second-hand Dell ~200W Power Supply it came with. All Chinese User Manual. It also talks about HP and Apple devices requires to turn on something on the unit switch. The sliver box after it was closed. The GTX 275 installed into the system. Before plug in preparations. 1. Uninstall all Graphic driver on your laptop to prevent BSOD. 2. Plug in the Power supply, HDMI-->ExpressCard and Graphics Card display to a monitor. Then I am good to turn on the whole system. The system ended up like this. Performance League of Legends Max Setting ~60FPS Temperatures around ~70C when running League of Legends Major Drawbacks - bandwidth: According to GPU-Z and Nvidia driver. The card is only running at PCI-E 1.1 x1. 3D Mark Vantage score on this set up compare to Toms hardware result. A 56% performance hit compare to a GTX 275 in a desktop gaming rig. Conclusion: Pros: Inexpensive Wide compatibility Cons: Bandwidth Requires Drivers uninstalled/Reboot to switch Requires a monitor Laptop screen becomes useless in graphic card mode. Who will benefit from this product? College student who needs a laptop but wants to game. On a budget? Here is a calculation. Refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad W510 Core i7 QM laptop-----$389 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2082HM4963&cm_re=lenovo_thinkpad_Core_i7-_-9SIA2082HM4963-_-Product EXP GDC ExpressCard version without power supply----$52.99 http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html Zotac GTX750Ti 2GB----$129.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500327&cm_re=GTX_750Ti-_-14-500-327-_-Product 90W DC Power Plug----$33 http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-90W-Notebook-Power-Adapter/dp/B00C9KUVWQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1424658894&sr=8-2&keywords=ASUS+laptop+charger Grand Total: ~$604.99 Still Less Than MSI & Alienware solution.
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Firstly sorry if this is the wrong sub-forum for this discussion. My friend wants to get in to PC gaming, but is very insistent on getting a laptop because he plans to bring it to college in a few years. Looking up game benchmarks, I found that not many laptops in his price range (~$1000) would not do very well in games. Which brings me to the question/discussion: Are external GPUs viable now? I have seen a few videos of people showing off their Express Card/Thunderbolt external GPU set ups, but the fact that so few people are doing it worries me. My friend is not tech illiterate, but he would definitely need help from somebody experienced like me to build a PC and I'm worried that an external GPU could require upkeep that would be difficult. TL;DR: Are external GPUs usable today? How difficult are they to get working and use (for inexperienced users)? Which would be better for an eGPU, Thunderbolt or ExpressCard?
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