How to add a Laptop Graphic Card to PC

[NikhilWagh]

Hi, I already have a RTX 2060 Super in my PC, but I also had an old laptop which I'm not using at all. The laptop has a GeForce 940M Graphic Card (GTX 940M). Is it possible for me to add additional graphic card (GTX 940 M) to my PC? If yes can someone guide me how to do it. I'm new to this.

[Dimondminer11]

2 minutes ago, NikhilWagh said:

Hi, I already have a RTX 2060 Super in my PC, but I also had an old laptop which I'm not using at all. The laptop has a GeForce 940M Graphic Card (GTX 940M). Is it possible for me to add additional graphic card (GTX 940 M) to my PC? If yes can someone guide me how to do it. I'm new to this.

Nope. That is soldered onto the laptop's pcb. A 2060 super would not benefit from something like a gtx 940m (which is barely better than a vega 8 iGPU)

[LIGISTX]

3 minutes ago, NikhilWagh said:

Hi, I already have a RTX 2060 Super in my PC, but I also had an old laptop which I'm not using at all. The laptop has a GeForce 940M Graphic Card (GTX 940M). Is it possible for me to add additional graphic card (GTX 940 M) to my PC? If yes can someone guide me how to do it. I'm new to this.

No, the laptop chip is integrated into the motherbaord. Even if you could, what would the point of this be..? Do you have a use case in mind?

[mahyar]

no and  gtx940m isnt a worthy card to go to all of problems

[vanished]

At best you would need some kind of adapter card and at worst, you would need sophisticated re-soldering skills and even then it may not work.  Regardless, best not to worry about it.  It is so dramatically outclassed by your 2060 performance-wise that it wouldn't help in any meaningful way.

[NikhilWagh]

On 7/18/2020 at 12:13 PM, LIGISTX said:

No, the laptop chip is integrated into the motherboard. Even if you could, what would the point of this be..? Do you have a use case in mind?

My use case was just gaming and streaming/recording. I thought maybe it can do all the encoding related stuff while the GTX 2060 S can focus on all the frames.
In that case can you help me in setting up a system where one can do the gaming and other just focuses on recording or streaming. (Should I ask this in a different question, not sure I'm new to this)

[Abhayy]

2 hours ago, NikhilWagh said:

My use case was just gaming and streaming/recording. I thought maybe it can do all the encoding related stuff while the GTX 2060 S can focus on all the frames.
In that case can you help me in setting up a system where one can do the gaming and other just focuses on recording or streaming. (Should I ask this in a different question, not sure I'm new to this)

I don't think using a different GPU would help,using something like CPU encoding or Nvidia Shadowplay has little to no impact on the performance of your build

[vanished]

9 hours ago, NikhilWagh said:

My use case was just gaming and streaming/recording. I thought maybe it can do all the encoding related stuff while the GTX 2060 S can focus on all the frames.
In that case can you help me in setting up a system where one can do the gaming and other just focuses on recording or streaming. (Should I ask this in a different question, not sure I'm new to this)

That is something you can do yes - most "professionals" do in fact - but you would need a capture card for that, not an extra video card.  I would also recommend making a separate thread for the question since it is quite different.

[LIGISTX]

On 7/20/2020 at 3:00 AM, NikhilWagh said:

My use case was just gaming and streaming/recording. I thought maybe it can do all the encoding related stuff while the GTX 2060 S can focus on all the frames.
In that case can you help me in setting up a system where one can do the gaming and other just focuses on recording or streaming. (Should I ask this in a different question, not sure I'm new to this)

No reason to set up a separate PC. What CPU do you have? A 2060 has nvenc encoding, and that is plenty powerful to do encoding all on its own.