Laptop Gpu

[mostechtips]

is there a way to use a desktop graphics card on a laptop 

[nanowatt]

Depends...most of them are soldered into mb you will have to take the thing apart and find yourself or give me a model and i will look  it up for ya

[A.D.A.M]

Yeah you would use an external pci housing with its own psu and connect it over thunderbolt/usb 3.0? Far as i remember Msi and alienware showed it off sometime ago

[Clyne]

Yeah you would use an external pci housing with its own psu and connect it over thunderbolt/usb 3.0? Far as i remember Msi and alienware showed it off sometime ago

You can use Expresscard too

[OriginalPromise]

It is possible. 

There are many workarounds to the solutions you seek.

You can use a PCI-E  port inside the laptop and wire it somehow in a ghetto fashion, or use the thunderbolt port which can bottleneck the card due to bandwidth limitations.

 

[A.D.A.M]

You can use Expresscard too

I have no idea what that is but I'll take your word.

[Clyne]

I have no idea what that is but I'll take your word.

You can use Expresscard to connect to your laptop.

Like this

[A.D.A.M]

You can use Expresscard to connect to your laptop.

Like this

oh cool.

[NUSNA_Moebius]

Do yourself a favor and just build a decent gaming desktop.  

 

External GPU systems are certainly doable, and I know people on Notebookcheck.com have been doing their own DIY external graphics stuff for years.  However, even DIY external graphics housings/setups can get expensive from acquiring the right connectors, cables, the graphics card, proper power supply, etc.  You also have to figure out how you connect it to the laptop and whether or not the connector is a real bottleneck or not.

 

With a desktop, things will be ready to work right away.  You won't be limited by the laptop's CPU, RAM, etc configs. when you want to upgrade any part in the system.  High end desktop + medium end laptop is the  way to go I say.

[mostechtips]

Do yourself a favor and just build a decent gaming desktop.  

 

External GPU systems are certainly doable, and I know people on Notebookcheck.com have been doing their own DIY external graphics stuff for years.  However, even DIY external graphics housings/setups can get expensive from acquiring the right connectors, cables, the graphics card, proper power supply, etc.  You also have to figure out how you connect it to the laptop and whether or not the connector is a real bottleneck or not.

 

With a desktop, things will be ready to work right away.  You won't be limited by the laptop's CPU, RAM, etc configs. when you want to upgrade any part in the system.  High end desktop + medium end laptop is the  way to go I say.

okay