LARMY

Good evening (10 pm here in Denmark). I found a used PE4H-EC2C for about $50 (no PSU or GFX). Is that adapter a good choice? It's the Express card version so I'll have to do the express card mod to my laptop - or is it cheaper to but an adapter (for the adapter) so it uses pcie istead? For another $50 I can get an HD6850 but I'm unsure how it performs? I'm still planning on using the infernal display (I know I'll need nVidia for this) but I would consider going full external monitor if the performance gain is good enough. Kind regards.

Thank you darkydark Am I correct in seeing that your internal display is 1366x768 and the external TV is 1920x1080? It's really good to see that the game benchmarks are about the same in fps! Final question (for now): Does your laptop support 5 Gbps through the Expresscard slot? Kind regards Larmy

Thank you very much for your reply Tech Inferno Fan! Would I need to do any special tweaks to my system/BIOS if I bought the PE4C 2.1 as you mention? I don't know if I'll have access to the Dell PSU here in Denmark/Europe but I'll give it a whirl. Thank you very much for listing some compatible graphics cards - I was looking at a GTX660Ti for about ~$75 (500 danish kroner), but if I manage to find one of the cards you suggest I'll probably go for one of those The "glitches" you refer to: what are those (BSOD or something more sinister)? Thank you again and kind regards.

Hi, I own an E6440 (i5-4300M@2,6Ghz -no overclock- with iGPU) and I am very interested in the eGPU solution. I don't have an Expresscard slot but I am willing to do the upgrade as linked on page one of this thread. I currently have BIOS version A11 installed. Regarding the eGPU solution I would very much like to use the internal display (1600x900) of my laptop. How big of a performance drop can I expect or does it depend on the external graphics card I choose? If there is a performance drop depending on the chosen graphics card: Do you have any recommendations/experiences as to what card would be optimal ie have the most performance with ~0% performance loss? I found some nice benchmark comparisons here! I currently plan on playing older games: Fallout 3, F3: New Vegas, Half-life2 and so on. In the beginning I'll get a cheap used graphics card to run the internal display but in the long run I might opt for an external instead. Do you recommend one eGPU solution over the other? Do you think I need to do anything with my BIOS (was it a bad move to install A11)? Kind regards Larmy