laptop egpu Laptop eGPU Setup Help

[Zackd]

Hi 

I have an Acer aspire e5 575g 58uj and in desiring more for gaming performance and my laptop doesn't have thunderbolt or a removable GPU, so then I looked at products [this] that take the mPCI-E slot from your laptop and then give you a full-size PCI-E slot for a graphics card and I had a few questions.

1. what is a good graphics card to pick, I was thinking about the EVGA GTX 1050 gaming (i just want to do Forza and Fortnite really)

2. are these legit, do they work as advertised and is it safe to run a GPU that takes all power from the PCI-E slot that is powered by the laptops SATA power connector? 

3. I have an i5 6200u and 8gb ram, will any of those be severe bottlenecks that hinder performance (planning to add another 8gb of ram anyway. 16gb total)

4. [this] is the eGPU I was looking at and it says that it is for mining but also says that it can be used for eGPU purposes, is this true? can this be used for gaming?

READ: I am a kid and don't really have a big budget and my parents won't allow me to get a new laptop for many years so I would like a setup that won break the bank but will stay suitable for years to come

 

Seriously any help would be appreciated.

[DrMacintosh]

These are really janky, have essentially no official support and require an external PSU. 

 

Here is something I found with a quick search on YouTube

 

[Zackd]

3 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

These are really janky, have essentially no official support and require an external PSU. 

 

Here is something I found with a quick search on YouTube

 

I am aware that these are pretty janky but its really the only thing that i can do right now. also the card that i was going to use (evga gtx 1050) dosent require external power which should allow me to purely run of the laptops sata connector, which was another question i had was is it safe to run the card and draw like 75 watts from a single sata power cable

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Zackd said:

I am aware that these are pretty janky but its really the only thing that i can do right now. also the card that i was going to use (evga gtx 1050) dosent require external power which should allow me to purely run of the laptops sata connector, which was another question i had was is it safe to run the card and draw like 75 watts from a single sata power cable

I don't believe mPCIE can deliver enough power for a GPU. In the video he uses the PSU to power both the adapter and the card. 

[Zackd]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

I don't believe mPCIE can deliver enough power for a GPU. In the video he uses the PSU to power both the adapter and the card. 

yea i thought that there might be an issue with power the egpu thing also taps into the laptop sata power for power but the card im using dosent have power plugs on the top and this mining edition epgu thing dosent support an external psu on the side of it so i believe that all the power comes from sata and all the data goes thru mpcie