Excalibur

The new RX 480 looks good among VR Ready GPUs so I'd like to know before I buy.

On 2016/2/11 at 11:59 PM, Snakecharmed said:

I don't have much feedback other than to say it's good to see someone still powering along with a W520. I bought a W520 in early-2014 after abandoning my eGPU project with a ThinkPad T500. I have the Quadro 2000M in my W520 so I haven't really looked to use an eGPU with it thus far, but I eventually want to play some more recent graphically-intense games in my home theater at 1080p. When I do, I'll probably move my GTX 760 from my desktop to my eGPU and get something better for my desktop.

 

I'm guessing you won't be able to post 3DMark11 scores now that your card is faulty, right?

Nope since I returned the card and got a 660 instead.

As for the setup, it's pretty much plug and play.

P70 looks great. When my W520 dies I'll get a used P70, but I'm not sure if it ever gonna die...

System:

After upgrading to 11082 from 10586, I can no longer boot into Windows with eGPU enabled. I tried to use DDU to uninstall all display drivers and successfully booted into Windows. However as soon as I finished installing driver, I could not boot.

I'm using Thinkpad W520 (Nvidia Quadro 1000M + Intel HD 3000) with Nvidia GTX 560 Ti.

The damn card is broken............

If you already have purchased setup 1.x, from what I've read I think you Run Compact > ignore dGPU. Then > Videocards > dGPU Off. > run startup.bat > Chainload to OS

<strike>Optimus just doesn't work for my setup even if my eGPU is also Nvidia, but this might be worth trying if you haven't already done so. </strike>

Anyone more experienced correct me if i'm wrong, just trying to help.

Thanks anyway. I found out a small program called NvOptimusTestViewer64.exe can help you to determine whether Optimus is enabled and working. I don't need to do anything to get Optimus, it's already working. Very amazing.

Hi. I just setup my egpu and i'm very happy with the performance. However I'd like to know how to enable 1.2 Opt on my system. I'm using EXP GDC, Lenovo Thinkpad W520, and GTX 560 Ti. Thanks.

Yeah I noticed those numbers and decided to go with a 560 Ti instead for the best bang per buck and lower power requirement. Thanks anyway!

Hi all. I'm new to eGPU and have a question here. I just ordered DA-2 and Beast. While I'm looking for a cheap GPU, I noticed this in Wikipedia:

Note that while GTX 460's TDP is comparable to that of AMD's HD5000 Series, GF100-based cards (GTX 480/470/465) are rated much lower but pull significantlly more power, e.g. GTX 480 with 250W TDP consumes More power than an HD 5970 with 297W TDP.

Similar to previous generation, GTX 580 and most likely future GTX 570, while reflecting its improvement over GF100, still have lower rated TDP and higher power consumption, e.g. GTX580 (243W TDP) is slightly less power hungry than GTX 480 (250W TDP). This is managed by clock throttling through drivers when a dedicated power hungry application is identified that could breach card TDP. Application name changing will disable throttling and enable full power consumption, which in some cases could be close to that of GTX480.

In the list GTX 470 has a TDP of 215W and GTX 570 has a TDP of 219W. Barely below DA-2's 220W output. My question is whether a single DA-2 can provide enough power for those 2 cards. If not, what is the upper limit for TDP?

BTW I choose nvidia's card since my laptop supports optimus.