do these adapters work

[Matt_98]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-PCI-E-V8-0-EXP-GDC-External-Independent-Video-Card-Dock-For-Beast-Laptop/311773913931?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D40860%26meid%3Dae3384215563403c85744a6e1667e489%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D201719810544

given that a razer core costs quite a bit more than this do they actually work (not buying one just curious)

[manikyath]

they usually do (not gonna say that as a reassurance, because you're never really sure about chinese stuff) but they feed your GPU with so little bandwidth they're essentially a guaranteed bottleneck on anything better than like some GT640

[IfNotWhy]

my friend bought one of them (i don't think that model) and he lost a lot of performances compared to putting it in a computer. but if i rember correctly the razer core only gets 80% of the power from a GPU anyway so i guess it works.

[Matt_98]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

they usually do (not gonna say that as a reassurance, because you're never really sure about chinese stuff) but they feed your GPU with so little bandwidth they're essentially a guaranteed bottleneck on anything better than like some GT640

 

seems like a good idea for if you need multiple monitors

 

[mariushm]

They probably work, but keep in mind that the miniPCIe has only ONE pci express lane, which means maximum 500 MB/s in both directions for PCIe 2.0 or almost 1 GB/s for PCIe 3.0

This will be a serious bottleneck for higher end cards, the maximum fps will be quite limited.

The razer solution uses more pci-e lanes and higher throughput, uses more expensive cable between laptop and external case etc.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Matt_98 said:

seems like a good idea for if you need multiple monitors

 

ehh.. there's better solutions, this is a terrible, terrible bodge that essentially turns a laptop into some frankenstein bodge that's rotting away in front of you.

[Matt_98]

Just now, mariushm said:

They probably work, but keep in mind that the miniPCIe has only ONE pci express lane, which means maximum 500 MB/s in both directions for PCIe 2.0 or almost 1 GB/s for PCIe 3.0

This will be a serious bottleneck for higher end cards, the maximum fps will be quite limited.

The razer solution uses more pci-e lanes and higher throughput, uses more expensive cable between laptop and external case etc.

 

yea and I bet for most laptops this would mean sacraficing wifi

[Matt_98]

Just now, manikyath said:

ehh.. there's better solutions, this is a terrible, terrible bodge that essentially turns a laptop into some frankenstein bodge that's rotting away in front of you.

so just like my laptop then

[manikyath]

2 minutes ago, Matt_98 said:

so just like my laptop then

my laptop is held together by glue and prayer hoping the nvidia chip wont randomly disappear again.

 

that's less of a bodge than what these disasters do.

[Matt_98]

Just now, manikyath said:

my laptop is held together by glue and prayer hoping the nvidia chip wont randomly disappear again.

 

that's less of a bodge than what these disasters do.

 

ah mine is holding the hard drive in with blu tac, the laptop is so old the cpu is still in a socket and not soldired

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Matt_98 said:

ah mine is holding the hard drive in with blu tac, the laptop is so old the cpu is still in a socket and not soldired

that's not old, that's a well made laptop.

 

in fact most high end laptops have socketed procs

[Matt_98]

Just now, manikyath said:

that's not old, that's a well made laptop.

 

in fact most high end laptops have socketed procs

 

ah so 10 points to the celery T3300