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July 05, 2011, 11:06:50 PM |
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http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/how-to-make-an-external-laptop-graphics-adaptor-915616Laptop graphics have always been something of a joke performance wise. Nvidia and AMD do try, but cramming all those millions of transistors into a low-power, compact package just leads to massive expense and an inability to upgrade. Wouldn't it be perfect if you could simply use a standard external graphics card to power your laptop's 3D graphics? The good news is that you can. The suitably technical-sounding PE4H is just that; a passive PCI-e x16 to x1 adaptor, which enables you to plug an external graphics card into a laptop's ExpressCard slot. Currently we're only aware of it being available from the Taiwanese firm www.hwtools.net for around $100 including shipping.
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July 06, 2011, 01:38:50 AM |
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why use this when you can get a good board for that price?
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July 06, 2011, 02:28:15 AM |
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You could but you can also get a motherboard + cpu combo in almost the same price range with less headaches. (amd brazos boards are around a hundred all this card would save you is a cheap hdd and some ram)
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Jack of Diamonds
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July 06, 2011, 02:57:17 AM |
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You could take advantage of this by buying tons of crappy old laptops with EC slots for 10-20 bucks each, then your only cost is the graphics cards.
The problem is, that adapter costs $100. So you might just as well build a low end system and stick 1 GPU in it.
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July 06, 2011, 02:14:14 PM |
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Where are you getting ec laptops for 20 dollars?
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July 06, 2011, 06:53:27 PM |
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Ok not quite an ec laptop for 20. I have to wonder if you'll hit bandwidth constraints at that point
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July 06, 2011, 07:07:46 PM |
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that little power supply switch thing on the makers website looks interesting though
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melmo
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July 07, 2011, 06:02:47 PM |
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I don't think that will work with a video card. From the warnings in the product description, it sounds like it just passes the USB 2.0 lines from the expresscard interface.
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July 11, 2011, 01:38:06 AM |
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July 11, 2011, 02:24:37 AM |
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that certainly looks interesting but you could build an entire system for less than what that costs.
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July 11, 2011, 04:17:37 AM |
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Yep didn't realize they were so ridiculously expensive.
Seems pointless to create something nobody will buy because your price-point is so absurd.
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July 11, 2011, 04:42:26 PM |
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Too bad the adapter is expensive, or this could have been a great idea. A cheap laptop with a weak CPU would suffice, and I would think that in general a laptop uses less electricity than a desktop.
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