Enob

Ahh... alright. Thank you! ;-)

May I ask you how you bought this version? Using the "online shop" only the 60cm can be bought - for "Other OEM demands as listed below, please contact our China Office.". Did I get this right that the 2.1b has the cable soldered on, whereas the 1.5 got a replacable cable? Is there any significant difference between both besides the cable and the Gen1/2 PCIe Spec? How does this affect the daily operation?

Hello! I'm planning to join the eGPU club and the plan is pretty much set up based on the information found here on these forums. As I'm not quite sure if I got that information correctly I would like to share this plan with you, hoping for valuable feedback. The system in question is a Sony Vaio VPC-Z1, equipped with an Intel Core i5 540M (Arrandale) CPU, 4 GB RAM and a HM57 Chipset (Clarkdale, Calpella Platform). It got an Intel HD iGPU and a GeForce GT 330M dGPU (PCIe x16) which can be switched using a hardware switch (not Optimus, but both graphics cards are visible to the operating system). The swtiching is usually done 'dynamically' by the (dedicated) Graphics Driver provided by Sony (based on Nvidia 188.x and Intel 20xx), but a modded BIOS allows 'static' switching, which means that just a single graphics card is visible to the operating system, either the iGPU or the eGPU (depending on the switch setting on boot) and allows for using the (latest) stock Nvidia and Intel drivers. The VPC-Z1 got an PCIe ExpressCard port which I plan to use for the eGPU (it also got two internal mPCIe slots, but I'm not quite found of the idea yet having cables dangling out of the notebook), which means that I will have a PCIe x1 link available. So I've been digging through the information found here and I've created the following shopping list: A combination of P4EL, EC2C, SWEX and PCIEMM-060A (~90$) to provide the external PCIe slot, a GeForce 750 eGPU (~140$), like the Palit GeForce GTX 750 StormX OC or a Gainward GeForce GTX 750 (which costs nearly the same as a 640, but should be way more energy efficient) and a bequiet! PurePower L8 300 watts power supply (~55$), which tightly fits into the budget of 300$. What do you think? br Enob