Need help!!

[Ricardo saez]

Hey guys, so, i wanna upgrade my laptop with an external gpu, i know how to do it, but i have a question, my cpu can handle only 8x lanes, but the graphics card is 16x, the question is: will it work? I know it may have performance down grade, but will it work? Thanks!!

[Theguywhobea]

1 minute ago, Ricardo saez said:

Hey guys, so, i wanna upgrade my laptop with an external gpu, i know how to do it, but i have a question, my cpu can handle only 8x lanes, but the graphics card is 16x, the question is: will it work? I know it may have performance down grade, but will it work? Thanks!!

Are you talking a GP EXC Chinese thing or a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure?

[Ricardo saez]

21 minutes ago, Theguywhobea said:

Are you talking a GP EXC Chinese thing or a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure?

Via gp exc

[Theguywhobea]

4 minutes ago, Ricardo saez said:

Via gp exc

If you're using the mPCI-e connector I don't think those have access to even more than 2 PCI-e lanes, and the best you can get is Thunderbolt 3 and even that only has access to at most 4 lanes, so you're going to see a pretty significant performance reduction on a laptop. Are you sure you really want to invest in an external GPU?

[Verrm]

Most people run on PCIE x1 mPCIE ports and they are fine up to geforce 1070 which starts to bottleneck but Im not sure wether from cpu or bandwith. But you need to run external monitor plugged into gpu so image wont have to be transferred through pcie back to laptop to display. It it perfect with for example geforce 1060 6gb and 1080p 60hz monitor. Remember that some ppl to have this running are forced to go with windows 7 not 10. Good luck!

[Verrm]

Those mPCIE x1 ports were previously in many laptops occupied with wireless network wifi+bluetooth card. If its the same with you then you have to run internet through lan cable.

[Ricardo saez]

2 hours ago, Verrm said:

Most people run on PCIE x1 mPCIE ports and they are fine up to geforce 1070 which starts to bottleneck but Im not sure wether from cpu or bandwith. But you need to run external monitor plugged into gpu so image wont have to be transferred through pcie back to laptop to display. It it perfect with for example geforce 1060 6gb and 1080p 60hz monitor. Remember that some ppl to have this running are forced to go with windows 7 not 10. Good luck!

Hey! Thanks, i have a i5-5200u and i have a gtx 660 2gb, and yes i'm using the wireless card slot

[Verrm]

On 14.11.2017 at 1:42 AM, Ricardo saez said:

Hey! Thanks, i have a i5-5200u and i have a gtx 660 2gb, and yes i'm using the wireless card slot

I've seen a guy on YT that ran on i7-2630qm in his laptop a 1060 6GB graphic card externally and the GPU was not that bottlenecked. I think that on your CPU a 1050Ti graphics card should not be bottlenecked much, and your gtx 660 should be perfectly fine.

[Ricardo saez]

On 11/13/2017 at 9:42 PM, Ricardo saez said:

Hey! Thanks, i have a i5-5200u and i have a gtx 660 2gb, and yes i'm using the wireless card slot

Hey! Update, i came to have an issue, the Mpcie slot form my motherboard was a little smaller than the "standard" slots, i have an older laptop, a vaio i-dunno-the-model, it has a pentium b970, a kinda really bad processor, but it had a "standard" mpcie slot, so i tried it, it worked perfectly, although it wasnt as smooths as i want, i can play the witcher 3 at about 30-40 fps at medium, thanks for the answers guys!!.

On 11/13/2017 at 7:35 PM, Verrm said:

Most people run on PCIE x1 mPCIE ports and they are fine up to geforce 1070 which starts to bottleneck but Im not sure wether from cpu or bandwith. But you need to run external monitor plugged into gpu so image wont have to be transferred through pcie back to laptop to display. It it perfect with for example geforce 1060 6gb and 1080p 60hz monitor. Remember that some ppl to have this running are forced to go with windows 7 not 10. Good luck!

Hey! Thanks, i have a i5-5200u and i have a gtx 660 2gb, and yes i'm using the wireless card slot