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Depends. Check the new video!

 

Anyways, what laptop do you have?

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5 minutes ago, ScubaSteve404 said:

its a dell inspiron 9400 with a T7200 and a GPU(an ati radeon mobility X1400) that cant handle anything higher than DirectX 9c. i think it will slightly out perform the main pc i use which is also a dual core machine but its max clock is about 1.4 :P

with that age just get a new laptop.

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9 minutes ago, ScubaSteve404 said:

its a dell inspiron 9400 with a T7200 and a GPU(an ati radeon mobility X1400) that cant handle anything higher than DirectX 9c. i think it will slightly out perform the main pc i use which is also a dual core machine but its max clock is about 1.4 :P

you need thunderbolt or to take out your wifi chip to connect an eGPU.

your laptop probably doesn't have TB2 or 3, and you probably want wifi.

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2 minutes ago, ScubaSteve404 said:

how much of a bottle neck would there be?

well.. quite a lot seeing you cant even plug it in ;)

 

as for the "in the place of wifi card" solutions.. a fellow forum user tried it out, and it turns out that it's essentially not worth your trouble.

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Just now, manikyath said:

well.. quite a lot seeing you cant even plug it in ;)

 

as for the "in the place of wifi card" solutions.. a fellow forum user tried it out, and it turns out that it's essentially not worth your trouble.

can i get a link to that test?

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Just now, tp95112 said:

You might want to tell us resolution,gpu and what port you are going to plug it into

it has a DVI-D a VGA and an S-Video port on the back it also has a USB pot for mice and 5 other USB ports that dont work with my mouse and are slighty different looking than the 1 usb port that works with my mouse, they do work with thing like thumb drives and external drives

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Just give up playing games on that old laptop, apart from minesweeper. Every bit of it, other than the keyboard maybe, are too old for games.

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6 minutes ago, ScubaSteve404 said:

how much of a bottle neck would there be?

It would be an insane bottleneck. You'd be trying to run a GPU on USB 2 speeds, and it sounds like it wouldn't give more performance than the ATI thing in there.

 

Either way, what you'd have to pay for an external dock and GPU is enough to get a whole new laptop that can play some games, so you should do that :)

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5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

can i get a link to that test?

i cant remember who it was, but i do remember it was one hell of a bottleneck even on an old card.

 

besides, that cpu is gonna be one hell of a neck as well.

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4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

well that laptop has a mxm slot, so id just put a better gpu in it.

This could work actually.

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Just now, Jurrunio said:

Just give up playing games on that old laptop, apart from minesweeper. Every bit of it, other than the keyboard maybe, are too old for games.

the 1440x900 screen on this thing looks decent and the speakers in it are preatty good, also i play DayZ on an amd E1-1200 becuase its all ive got atm and i think the slightly higher clock speed with give slightly better performance

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Just now, manikyath said:

i cant remember who it was, but i do remember it was one hell of a bottleneck even on an old card.

 

besides, that cpu is gonna be one hell of a neck as well.

Well while we're at the whole overkill solutions, you can also buy a $7000 BGA reflowing machine and put a better CPU in there :D

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1 minute ago, Energycore said:

This could work actually.

here are some of them https://www.aliexpress.com/promotion/promotion_dell-inspiron-9400-video-card-promotion.html

 

Not great options, and not mxm, but you can seem to put a 7900gtx in there and thats gonna be hot. And you still at directx 9c. 

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9 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well.. quite a lot seeing you cant even plug it in ;)

 

as for the "in the place of wifi card" solutions.. a fellow forum user tried it out, and it turns out that it's essentially not worth your trouble.

not really

on windows its quite easy, just run an external bootloader like clover, download dsdt, then modify dsdt (add 5 lines to it) and then compile it, then get the bootloader to load it at boot time. OSX/Linux work out of the box.

 

and the windows steps are only if your PC doesnt dedicate enough memory for a 256MB GPU like Maxwell/Pascal/All AMD cards. Kepler and Thermi are 128MB and work well

 

AMD are shit for eGPU as they dont have compression features like Nvidia cards. 

idk

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