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E-GPU on a netbook?

TheMalvage
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Is it possible to put an E-GPU on a netbook? I don't mean High-End cards like the Titan XP, but low end ones such as the GeForce GT 720, if it's possible would it need an external power source? The netbook is an Acer Aspire One D270 with unlocked BIOS. Any help will be appriciated. 

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you can probably rip out the wifi card and put a 1x to 16x cable in there and have a GPU, thats what i WANT to do with my laptop from school but waranty and shit stops me sadly

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Even if you did get a way for it to work, that CPU is slow as balls. If I had to wager a guess at how fast it is, I would put it around a 2.8GHz Pentium 4, maybe one with Hyperthreading. Mine was barely able to edge out a baseline P4 2.4GHz.

 

AKA, this netbook would likely bottleneck anything past a Radeon HD 3450 or GT210, making the whole process pointless.

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In theory you may be able to do it with using a 1xpcie riser to an external gpu, but these solutions are all janky and messy as hell. And don't work out properly most of the time from what I have seen other people posting.

The only way to make it somewhat usable would be if your netbook has a thunderbolt 3 connector and you use something like the razer core. Not officially supported but it appears to work with pretty much anything.

When in doubt, re-format.

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if your other laptop specs aren't at least decent there would be no point to begin with. Higher end laptops get decent desktop rivals or straight up desktop graphics cards so there isnt much point in upgrading them. So if you need better graphics. Buy a better laptop. Unless you want to try and remove the gpu and connect it to a better one via PCI-E extender and having a sepperate power supply powering that.

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