Expresscard eGpu?

[Lactarius00]

For a couple of years ago, before i actually knew anything about tech, i bought a laptop with a sucking graphics card. And because i don't have the money to actually buy a pc made for my usage, i tried to find other alternatives. Then i found this thingy to connect a full size gpu to an laptop through my expresscard slot, but they cost about 75$-120$, is it worth it, and can it possibly work without too much performance loss?

 

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_7_13?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=expresscard+egpu&sprefix=expresscard+e%2Caps%2C241

[mikat]

wait for the upcoming video, linus will investigate this in a future video, he teased it as the "poor man's core" so then you can see the benchmarks

 

[Lactarius00]

Thanks for the fast reply! I had no idea he was allready working on it, and i will sure check it out when it is released!

[Zodiark1593]

The use of PCI-e 1.0 puts a pretty harsh cap on the kind of performance you can expect, at least, is what has been my experience before finally building a desktop. I used the mPCI-e port where the wifi card went as my laptop lacked the ExpressCard port, however, bus speeds should be the same. 

 

 

[aselwyn1]

ya thats not going to be bottle necked at all... also a very sketchy way of doing it as that would make the laptop not portable anymore also removes your wifi adapter

[Whosonicus]

 *Squints at picture*

is that a GPU to help graphics performance?!

since when was this a thing?!