UncleJoe Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Hi, I'm the author of the compact utility that I've worked with Nando on. Ironically, I've never actually used an eGPU until now, so I thought I'd share my setup results. Since my room is a bit small, I've setup a bare bones system, which should serve as an example not to be followed (especially if you don't want to set your house on fire Hardware info:Laptop: Dell Precision M4600CPU: Intel (R) Core (TM) i5-2520M @2.5 GhZ (2 cores)GPU: Zotac NVIDIA GTX 480 PCIe link: x1.2 & Optimus Please excuse the poorly stitched photo (camera axis moved too much between shots) Benchmarks (using external monitor): Resident Evil 5 (DX9), 1280x800, highest settings 130.3 fps 3DMark 06 16792 3DMark 11 4317 Unigine Heaven 4.0 score=1359 minFPS=16.7 maxFPS=96.4 avgFPS=54.0 CUDA nbody (50k particles) 566 GFlops Over all, I'm impressed mostly by the gaming performance. I was able to run Battlefield 3 at the highest settings and 1920x1080 at ~30 fps. If I used 1024x768, the frame rate goes up to 60. Unfortunately, the low PCIe bandwidth makes it not very useful for image processing CUDA applications, which I need.Out of the box, plugging the eGPU into the Dell M4600 doesn't work: Windows boots, but reports error 10 or 43 for the GPU in Device Manager. Here's what I had to do in the setup menus to get it to work (thanks to Nando for making it so easy to use):1. set link speed of ExpressCard slot to 5 GHz (was 2.5 GHz)2. disable dGPU (Quadro 1000M)3. compact eGPU only4. chainload to Windows 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blud Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Hi,Thanks for the experience.How did you do to set link speed of ExpressCard to 5Ghz ? I'm on a M6600 and I want to do the same.Thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Inferno Fan Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Hi,Thanks for the experience.How did you do to set link speed of ExpressCard to 5Ghz ? I'm on a M6600 and I want to do the same.Thanks ! @UncleJoe tells us he used Setup 1.30 to do the 4 itemised items quoted below to get the eGPU working. Refer to http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/2123-diy-egpu-setup-1-30-previously-setup-1-x.html for details on how to acquire Setup 1.30. Out of the box, plugging the eGPU into the Dell M4600 doesn't work: Windows boots, but reports error 10 or 43 for the GPU in Device Manager. Here's what I had to do in the setup menus to get it to work (thanks to Nando for making it so easy to use):1. set link speed of ExpressCard slot to 5 GHz (was 2.5 GHz)2. disable dGPU (Quadro 1000M)3. compact eGPU only4. chainload to Windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blud Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 @UncleJoe tells us he used Setup 1.30 to do the 4 itemised items quoted below to get the eGPU working. Refer to http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/2123-diy-egpu-setup-1-30-previously-setup-1-x.html for details on how to acquire Setup 1.30.Hi Tech Inferno Fan,Thanks for your reply.I try to make my eGPU works and I have one questions for you: I got error 12 on my eGPU card. I had a dGPU on my Dell M6600 but I removed it because it was breaked. Can I reallocate the PCI ressource of my old dGPU to my eGPU to make it works (so without DSDT override) ?Thanks a lot ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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