egpu for laptop

[Thomas_nerd]

hey guys

 

I have a laptop that is about 5 years old and I was thinking that the integrated graphics can`t be up to the task of some things, so I was thinking of getting a egpu although I do not have thunderbolt 3 I was wondering if some of the I/O on my machine could handle it my machine has:

 

• power (der)
• gigabit ethernet
• vga
• hdmi
• usb 3.0
• sd card reader
• auxillary sound
• usb 2.0
• blu-ray writer

I would pair it with a 660 ti because that is the old one from my pc.

[emosun]

no none of the i/o is suitable for that

not to mention whatever cpu is in a 5 year old laptop isn't going to be very acceptable either to justify the cost of the dock

[Thomas_nerd]

the cpu is a i7-6500u so it has 4 cores, and turbos up to 3.2ghz

[GoldenLag]

Wificard is the only eligable connector on the entire laptop.

[Thomas_nerd]

On 6/23/2019 at 8:06 PM, GoldenLag said:

Wificard is the only eligable connector on the entire laptop.

could you please recommend a egpu enclosure that would be able to use the ethernet on my laptop, 

 

thanks Thomas.

[GoldenLag]

4 hours ago, Thomas_nerd said:

could you please recommend a egpu enclosure that would be able to use the ethernet on my laptop, 

 

thanks Thomas.

Ethernet wont work afaik.

 

The wificard slot in the laptop is the only connector since its PCIe 1x. You can get adapters on ebay. And then hook up a PSU.

 

That is if your laptop has a 1x slot.

[TheSLSAMG]

On 6/23/2019 at 2:50 PM, Thomas_nerd said:

the cpu is a i7-6500u so it has 4 cores, and turbos up to 3.2ghz

That's a dual core. Probably not worth the potential investment to make it work, but depending on what the WiFi card is, an M.2 or mPCIe based dock like an EXP GDC could work.