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Thanks! I've been Googlen' for hours and haven't seen that. My aplication is a Pavillion 500-c60. It's a amd A6 5200 and Radeon hd8400. The mPCIe is a Gen 3. It uses mini itx so looks like this is my solution. Any advice on what cards to look at? I was looking at the gtx 660 but I gather that Optimus doesn't count for anything for me as its AMD/ATI not Intel/Nvidia combo. If I'm not going to be able to use Optimus does that make other cards more attractive for my application? Edit: I also saw the benchmarks on the cpu were lower than I expected for a quad core. Is the cpu going to bottleneck before the gpu and adapter? I'm looking to run X-Plane 10 with some scenery packages and want a good, fluid experience. Apologies for the ignorance, I've been out of the PC world since 2002 or so.

Well according to BPLUS the PE4L 2.1A and PE4L 2.1B are both PCIe 3.0. Here is the email...... Hello sir, * Both PE4L can up to Gen3, But this depend on your system and host, So we can not guarantee the performance can up to Gen3 or not. If you have any more question, Please feel free to contact us, Thanks again *BR Derek 陳逸隆 Derek Chen BPLUS Technology Co., Ltd. 9F-1, No 88, Zhou-Tzyy st, Nei-Hu,Taipei 11493 Taiwan Tel: +886-2-7736-0128 #740 Fax: +886-2-7736-0126 Can anyone confirm this or hooked up the adapter to a PCIe 3.0 slot with a PCIe 3.0 card?

TheDeathEffect, Thanks for the reply, I was looking at the PE4L-PM060A from hwtools, and they say it supports PCIe Gen3. I was going off what they were advertising. According to the pictures the cable is soldered to the boards and not a mHDMI plug in. As far as upgrading the rig, well the case is proprietary, so other than the ram stick, optical drive and HDD, it's practically useless trying to upgrade it I figure. I probably would be better off starting fresh with a complete build. This thing has a laptop power supply so I couldn't even use that.

I have been out of the pc world since the pentium 3.06 came out so a lot of this nomenclature is a bit foreign to me. The question is I have a hp 500-c60 desktop. Well its a mini tower with laptop guts stuffed in the box that I found out after I bought the infernal thing. It's a amd a6 processor I think, with Radeon hd8400 integrated graphics. The rest of the rig performs OK I rekon but I really need a gpu upgrade. It mainly collects dust and xplane recommends a gpu with 2gig memory. The question is it has a half height mpcie slot occupied by a wireless network radio. Is there a viable option for me at this point? I have a few Xbox psu's laying around. Heck I even have a couple paralleled to run a 12v 1000w car amp pushing some old Jensen tower speakers, that I also run my gr-55 guitar synthesizer through. I looked at getting the v6 adapter with the mPCIe cable but all this nomenclature had me a bit confused. If anyone knowledgeable that could give some direction here i would be mighty grateful. Edit it's a windows 8 machine. Hp support informs me that the mPCIe is a Gen/Version 3.0 PCIe. He also said that to repurpose for a eGPU that I will need to disable secure boot and enable legacy support in BIOS. That part I can do. So is this really as simple as getting a mPCIe PE4L Gen 3 capable adapter and running power to the gpu? And how the pie Gen 3 going to help with the selection of usable gpu's to choose from