deAlek

Thank's a lot for sharing your expertise! Considering the price these 2011 MBPs still cost, I would rather upgrade to a new model eventually, even though they don't offer 17 inch screens anymore. But with that I would prefer to wait another year or two. How bad would the performance be if I upgraded my current machine anyways. Say I used a good pcie 1.1x card and couldn't get the pci-e compression enabled. Would it still significantly increase my gaming experice in for instance Dota 2? Or would the effect be insignificant in comparision to my dGPU? And would I be able to use a 4k external display at full resolution with such a card?

Hi, I have a Macbook Pro mid 2010 17" (Macbook Pro 6.1); Intel Core i7 (2,8 GHz, 256KB L2 cache, 4MB L3 cache); 8 GB RAM 1066MHz, SSD; NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB. It has an ExpressCard Slot equipped. I really enjoyed gaming on it, but it became to weak on graphics lately. I was wondering if I could equip it with a decent eGPU to go with it for a few more years, since there are no 17" MBPs made anymore and I really enjoy having a portable 17" Mac. Which would be the best way to make this work? I found this item on ebay: PE4C EC060A - V 3.0 (PCIe x16 Adaptor) - PE4C EC060A V3 0 PCIe x16 Adapter | eBay If I used it together with a seperate ATX power supply unit, would I be able to install a strong dedicated Graphics card on my macbook? Best, Alek