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Zentorno56
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No... the laptop does not have a rear end pci-e express lane (Correct me if I am wrong) however there are other ways of doing it. Just search on youtube: How to connect a desktop gpu to a laptop. And it should come up with a turtorial

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I mean a laptop is made for portability, If you stick a external gpu, the portability is gone. So basically its a desktop

 

I still don't understand. OP is asking about an external dock to have a desktop video card work with his laptop, then you said they should also buy a CPU?

 

 

He's saying that certain cpu's have built in gpus, so to get a better gpu, then you would need to get another cpu.

 

That's not how it works :P

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I still don't understand. OP is asking about an external dock to have a desktop video card work with his laptop, then you said they should also buy a CPU?

 

 
 

 

That's not how it works :P

WTF, I have no idea why I wrote CPU. Sorry I think I need a break

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I mean a laptop is made for portability, If you stick a external gpu, the portability is gone. So basically its a desktop

No. I'm saying since I already have an awesome CPU, when i'm home I can hook some dock or... whatever into my labtop and have more power. When i'm gone I can disconnect it so I dont have a giant dock or whatever and just use my CPU power.

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Bang Good sells an adapter that will go from mini-PCI-e to a 16x lane (not at 16x speeds though) but this means you would probably have to run with the bottom panel off and a cable running out to the external GPU, so it wont be pretty. Also you'll need a PSU to power it.

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No. I'm saying since I already have an awesome CPU, when i'm home I can hook some dock or... whatever into my labtop and have more power. When i'm gone I can disconnect it so I dont have a giant dock or whatever and just use my CPU power.

Unless you have thunderbolt, eGPUs aren't really an option :/

 

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