Is this even possible?

[Ethika]

As said above I need help knowing if this is even possible.
(i know an egpu is possible but this is a new idea)

1. get a Mini-PCIe-1-to-3-PCI-Express witch would go into the MPCIe on laptop.

2. get a EGPU Dock or something similar.

3. plug the riser into the laptop, plug the egpu dock into the riser

4. plug your graphics card in, and plug your wifi card back into riser (i know i would need a new wifi card) unless i was able to find a mpcie riser with at least two ports

of course your would need power for the graphics card.. 


just curious if this would work? im new to this side of computers so bare with me.. thanks!

[Mira Yurizaki]

Mini PCIe is 2.0 x1, which is woefully underpowered to drive a GPU. And then the Wi-Fi card would have to contend with the limited bandwidth already being sucked up by the GPU.

[Ethika]

is there a way to do this? im trying to make it so i can still use my wifi card that my laptop came with.

[shadowbyte]

so pretty much this?

 

[Goodman2265]

bottle NEEEECCCCKKKK

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Ethika said:

is there a way to do this? im trying to make it so i can still use my wifi card that my laptop came with.

The setup looks possible in theory, but in practice it won't really work because there's not enough bandwidth to service a GPU and a Wi-Fi card over PCIe 2.0 x1.

[Ethika]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

The setup looks possible in theory, but in practice it won't really work because there's not enough bandwidth to service a GPU and a Wi-Fi card over PCIe 2.0 x1.

can you recommend anything? sorry im new to all of this...

[LyondellBasell]

2 minutes ago, Ethika said:

can you recommend anything? sorry im new to all of this...

I think I can speak for most of LTT and say that the general recommendation will be to save your money until you can afford a laptop/desktop that has both a built-in wireless solution and the graphics card that you want.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, Ethika said:

can you recommend anything? sorry im new to all of this...

Unless you have a Thunderbolt port, no. At the minimum to not have the GPU choke you need at least the bandwidth of PCIe 1.1 x8.

[Ethika]

Just now, LyondellBasell said:

I think I can speak for most of LTT and say that the general recommendation will be to save your money until you can afford a laptop/desktop that has both a built-in wireless solution and the graphics card that you want.

i agree, i currently have an asus x550j

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Unless you have a Thunderbolt port, no. At the minimum to not have the GPU choke you need at least the bandwidth of PCIe 1.1 x8.

thanks for all the info

[MlnmFlcn]

I've tried a similar solution before. If you define "work" as turn on and output video, then yes, it works. If you define "work" as getting some performance upgrade over the iGPU, then it kinda works. If you define "work" as getting anything better than GT 1030 performance out of a 1070, then no, it does not work. If you define "work" as not having serious stuttering issues, then it again does not work.

 

Buy a few cups of coffee instead.