eGpu questions

[MrSzyma]

Hello!

 

I am thinking about connecting an eGpu to my laptop.

I Have a couple questions:

 

1.  If you get the mini pcie version, can you only plug it in into the wifi card mini pcie slot, or can you use a SSD mini pcie slot too?

 

2. I have a msi ge70 2oe. 8gb ddr3 ram, gtx 765m, and i7 4700MQ. What is the best card I can get, that I can run on that pc? I will possibly build a desktop later, so I would like to get a high tier card.

 

 

 

Regards

Szymon

[GirlFromYonder]

1 minute ago, MrSzyma said:

Hello!

 

I am thinking about connecting an eGpu to my laptop.

I Have a couple questions:

 

1.  If you get the mini pcie version, can you only plug it in into the wifi card mini pcie slot, or can you use a SSD mini pcie slot too?

 

2. I have a msi ge70 2oe. 8gb ddr3 ram, gtx 765m, and i7 4700MQ. What is the best card I can get, that I can run on that pc? I will possibly build a desktop later, so I would like to get a high tier card.

 

 

 

Regards

Szymon

Ur ssd wont be PCI, it would most probably just be sata. And the wifi pci wont have enough bandwidth so no 

[MrSzyma]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

Ur ssd wont be PCI, it would most probably just be sata. And the wifi pci wont have enough bandwidth so no 

How do other people use wifi cards for egpus then?  I know it's only x1 pcie and that it doesn't have enough bandwith, but it works. I have 3.0 pcie ports, there are not very fast but.   And the ssds are 64gb each, connected using mini pcie ports, not sata.

[GirlFromYonder]

1 minute ago, MrSzyma said:

How do other people use wifi cards for egpus then?  I know it's only x1 pcie and that it doesn't have enough bandwith, but it works. I have 3.0 pcie ports, there are not very fast but.   And the ssds are 64gb each, connected using mini pcie ports, not sata.

and who much would that cost like $200 just for the kit. at least because you would need a external pcie card slot and another psu for that too. this is hard to find as people dont do this often. 

a quote from the website of ur laptop

Spoiler

 two mSATA SSD RAID 0 (128GB or 256GB)

so yeah it is msata

[glunday]

3 minutes ago, MrSzyma said:

How do other people use wifi cards for egpus then?  I know it's only x1 pcie and that it doesn't have enough bandwith, but it works. I have 3.0 pcie ports, there are not very fast but.   And the ssds are 64gb each, connected using mini pcie ports, not sata.

are you sure your ssd slots are pcie and not M.2? 

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, glunday said:

are you sure your ssd slots are pcie and not M.2? 

they are sata. msata

[glunday]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

they are sata. msata

i didn't see your post until after my page refreshed, we posted within a min of each other.

[MrSzyma]

7 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

and who much would that cost like $200 just for the kit. at least because you would need a external pcie card slot and another psu for that too. this is hard to find as people dont do this often. 

a quote from the website of ur laptop

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 two mSATA SSD RAID 0 (128GB or 256GB)

so yeah it is msata

Idk about the sata thing now lol. They look identical to the mpcie slots, and in HWiNFO it tells me I have 4 mpcie slots.  About the kit. I know that I need an external PSU. I even have one already. I dont need an external pcie port. I can use the internal one for the wifi. And quite many people do it actually

 

[MrSzyma]

1 minute ago, glunday said:

i didn't see your post until after my page refreshed, we posted within a min of each other.

My laptop is to old to have m.2. Only one MSI laptop has that xD.

[pyrojoe34]

like this?

 

https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-External-PCI-Graphics-Card/dp/B00Q4VMLF6

 

 

[MrSzyma]

Just now, pyrojoe34 said:

like this?

 

https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-External-PCI-Graphics-Card/dp/B00Q4VMLF6

 

 

Exactly

[MrSzyma]

I mean I could also get a blank mxm chip, and solder a pcie x16 cable to it, and get the full power of the card on the laptop, but that is too much work.