Aftermarked dedicated GPU for Laptops?

[Couccun]

So, in most Laptops you have a mini pci-e port, in which the wlan adapter is plugged in. With an egpu Dock you can then connect a desktop grade graphics card to your system.

But what if, you would have a craphics card in an mini pci-e format, which you could just plug in and game? in my opinion this should be possible, but with some searching i did not find a graphics card or any other product exept egpu docks... so do any of you know of an product or an project which comes as close as possible to this?

 

-Tim

 

(english is not my mouther tounge)

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, Couccun said:

So, in most Laptops you have a mini pci-e port, in which the wlan adapter is plugged in. With an egpu Dock you can then connect a desktop grade graphics card to your system.

But what if, you would have a craphics card in an mini pci-e format, which you could just plug in and game? in my opinion this should be possible, but with some searching i did not find a graphics card or any other product exept egpu docks... so do any of you know of an product or an project which comes as close as possible to this?

 

-Tim

 

(english is not my mouther tounge)

1. The space for a mini pcie slot is tiny

2. There is no cooling there

3. mxm exists

[Moonzy]

11 minutes ago, Couccun said:

do any of you know of an product or an project which comes as close as possible to this?

there are projects that uses the mPCIE to external PCIE and plug in a GPU

but if you want a mPCIE GPU, they probably dont exist, as far as i know.

 

but you wouldn't get anything out of that mPCIE anyways, since it's only 1x bandwidth.

 

you can try it as a hobby if you have spare cash lying around

as an upgrade, probably not a good idea

 

Spoiler

 

 

[dfsgsfa]

mini pcie slot have very limited bandwidth, x1, x2 x4? where mordern gpu uses 8x, x16

also the normal pcie slot provodes 75w power

[Mark Kaine]

Linus (or Jayz for that matter) should make a video how to actually upgrade a internal laptop GPU  that would be far more interesting imo...

 

I likely still wouldn't do it (because of costs) but it's certainly interesting and much less of a hacky, half-assed solution than plugging an actual desktop GPU into a low bandwidth WiFi slot.