Trading in my MSI GS63VR 7rf 216nl for a EGPU 1080 HP Spectre combo

[FastRDust]

Hello everyone!

 

I was wondering, i'm about to sell my current laptop to get the HP SPectre X360 ( I7 8550U ) with the Gigabyte Aorus Gaming box 1080.

 

are there things i must be aware about when going to the plug'n'play setup?

[reptileexperts]

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/15923658/fs/15929641/fs/15927220# 

 

 

Getting ready to do a review on this topic. 

 

I am ditching the heavy gaming laptop (MSI GE73VR 1070) for a 2 in 1 from Dell (XPS 15 9575) with the Vega hybrid chip i7 8705G with an Aorus gaming box. It was a scary investment because I bought the gaming box used from a reviewer so the only option out would be to do the same and resell at a loss, and simply return the 9575 to dell. . . 

 

I am very happy to report my results are decent at 4k. And great at 1080p when using an external monitor. The above shows what I experienced in benchmarks. The highest score was when I ran the eGpu to an external monitor. The second highest score was running it back to my laptop panel at 4k resolution. The lowest run is my overclocked MSI gaming laptop. . . 

 

To be fair, at 1080p, the MSI wins with a typical firestrike score around 14500, where the best I've done yet through an external monitor is around 13800. It seems the 1080 gaming box is going to show its best results with either external displays, or gaming above 1080p. YMMV 

 

CPU got toasty, but fans were barely pushing thanks to low noise profile. No thermal throttling, but did see power throttling. This was playing Destiny 2 in 4k medium / high settings

 

 

Shows the OC that I have stable right now. Core is not effecting much. Memory clock is. Again, the historic graphing was during Destiny 2 4k on internal monitor. 

[FastRDust]

8 hours ago, reptileexperts said:

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/15923658/fs/15929641/fs/15927220# 

 

 

Getting ready to do a review on this topic. 

 

I am ditching the heavy gaming laptop (MSI GE73VR 1070) for a 2 in 1 from Dell (XPS 15 9575) with the Vega hybrid chip i7 8705G with an Aorus gaming box. It was a scary investment because I bought the gaming box used from a reviewer so the only option out would be to do the same and resell at a loss, and simply return the 9575 to dell. . . 

 

I am very happy to report my results are decent at 4k. And great at 1080p when using an external monitor. The above shows what I experienced in benchmarks. The highest score was when I ran the eGpu to an external monitor. The second highest score was running it back to my laptop panel at 4k resolution. The lowest run is my overclocked MSI gaming laptop. . . 

 

To be fair, at 1080p, the MSI wins with a typical firestrike score around 14500, where the best I've done yet through an external monitor is around 13800. It seems the 1080 gaming box is going to show its best results with either external displays, or gaming above 1080p. YMMV 

 

CPU got toasty, but fans were barely pushing thanks to low noise profile. No thermal throttling, but did see power throttling. This was playing Destiny 2 in 4k medium / high settings

 

 

Shows the OC that I have stable right now. Core is not effecting much. Memory clock is. Again, the historic graphing was during Destiny 2 4k on internal monitor. 

Thank you for this information!

I wanted to add a External 1440P monitor  to the mix ( maybe with G-Sync).

so anything that pushes the load more on resolution evens the playing field?
 

I always wonder the opposite of most people like: in what case scenario ( in terms of lowering everything) do you minimise the difference between the build-in GPU and e-GPU.

 

But this means that by increasing the resolution the performance gap between the two decreases?

[reptileexperts]

The limitation, in my opinion, is total frame rate output. I was able to game on my 1440p monitor last night through the box and push up to 90 fps in PUBG at 3440x1440 in ultra settings. It had some falls into the 35-45 range thanks to the nature of everything, but by in large it stayed above 60. Even with dialing things down, your particular CPU might cause the most bottleneck when it comes to getting those frames the highest. 

 

Any specific game you're trying? 

[FastRDust]

35 minutes ago, reptileexperts said:

The limitation, in my opinion, is total frame rate output. I was able to game on my 1440p monitor last night through the box and push up to 90 fps in PUBG at 3440x1440 in ultra settings. It had some falls into the 35-45 range thanks to the nature of everything, but by in large it stayed above 60. Even with dialing things down, your particular CPU might cause the most bottleneck when it comes to getting those frames the highest. 

 

Any specific game you're trying? 

no specific games, just allot of different ones.

 

but i would like to play most on 2560x1440 on high or ultra 60fps.

and use a g-sync monitor to compensate fot the frame drops.