Turbolego

On 25.2.2016 at 8:18 AM, Khenglish said:

@Turbolego

 

If your laptop has the 860m I would not even consider an eGPU. If you have the 765m the eGPU will be an improvement, but not what you are likely hoping for. The x16 slot is for the dGPU and it cannot be changed. You only have one mpci-e slot, so you can only do x1 2.0, and even that requires having no wifi card. You will need to use nando4's setup program to disable the dGPU for optimus to run since Clevo systems lack a BIOS option to disable the dGPU. With the performance hit of x1 there will be some games that run better on the 860m than if you were running an eGPU 980, although there would be some where the 980 does win significantly.

@Khenglish

According to Oculus:

"GPUs below Nvidia GTX 600 series or AMD Radeon HD 7000 series are not supported. In addition, laptops typically are not supported well or at all (especially if they include Nvidia Optimus or AMD Switchable Graphics)."

So i'll need a desktop graphics card anyways.

How would a "EVGA GF GTX 750TI SC 2GB DDR5 PCI-E" perform with 1x 2.0?

Similar to the performance of my current 860m?

Any other cards i should get instead? (i can buy used too)

Thanks so much for your help. 

I have a variant of the Clevo W230SS machine.

Info: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Clevo-W230SS-Schenker-XMG-P304-Barebones-Notebook.113676.0.html

And i have been thinking about buying the V2.0 EXP GDC Beast external graphics card dock: http://www.ebay.com/itm/181943864835

But can my laptop use it?

According to the latest version of HWiNFO64, the motherboard of this machine has the following slots:

Motherboard Slots: 2xPCI Express x1, 1xPCI Express x16

The x16 slot has the following info:

Slot Designation:	J6B2
Slot Type:	PCI Express
Slot Usage:	In use
Slot Data Bus Width:	16x / x16
Slot Length:	Long

Here's a picture of the insides of my machine, with the names of the slots written:

full picture: http://0o2471.net/64088

The names of the slots:

14023   E13: Currently occupied by mSATA SSD
14023   E13: Currently occupied by mSATA SSD
14176   E4K: Currently occupied by WiFi card (7260HMW)

Info on the WiFi card: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Intel_Dual_Band_Wireless-AC_7260_(7260HMW)

Is the x16 slot the slot currently occupied by the WiFi card?

Any opinions on why/why not this laptop can use the external dock?

And what graphics card should i get without bottlenecking?

Attached to this post is a .zip file with the complete HWinfo64 report in html format.

Thanks in advance.

OCULUS.zip

I want to buy a beast.

This is my current laptop: Review Clevo W230SS (Schenker XMG P304) Barebones Notebook - NotebookCheck.net Reviews

Some info from speccy:

Motherboard Manufacturer Notebook

Model W230SS (SOCKET 0)

Version Not Applicable

Chipset Vendor Intel

Chipset Model Haswell

Chipset Revision 06

Southbridge Vendor Intel

Southbridge Model HM87

Southbridge Revision C2

System Temperature 59 °C

BIOS

Brand American Megatrends Inc.

Version 4.6.5

Date 15/04/2014

PCI Data

Slot PCI-E

Slot Type PCI-E

Slot Usage In Use

Data lanes x16

Slot Designation J6B2

Characteristics 3.3V, Shared, PME

Slot Number 0

Can i use the beast?

Thanks in advance.