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Nice work
That's thick. Looks like one of these old portable servers from Eurocom heheh

I just use toilet paper lol
with Isopropyl alcohol. It usually can be found in electronics, repair or component stores.

Also easy to buy from the internet.

12 hours ago, Crosshash said:

Hi guys.

 

Should I still get an e6440 or have you all moved on to bigger and better things? There's quite a few models on eBay with the 1600x900 screen and an i7 4600M for not a lot of money so I'm quite tempted!

 

Do all models have the expresscard slot as I would be quite interested in using an eGPU as the dGPU models seem very rare in Europe.

 

Cheers

 

[edit] I can see that this forum is kinda inactive right now. Does that mean everyone has moved on to a new laptop?

If they suits your needs it can be a nice option. But not all of them have expresscard. Necessary parts to add the port are listed on the first post.
There is plenty of good models being sold used such as M4800/M4700 or Zbook 15 if you want more power.
Most of the egpu users are on egpu-io right now.

14 hours ago, techie said:

Skylake is better.

Did you realize you just replied to a 2 year old post? heheh

Ryzen seems to be a good option BTW

Hello. Did anyone here sucessfully overclock the RAM with this laptop?

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4 hours ago, AdarC said:

If that's while playing csgo your  egpu is not being used.

Did you check if there is any AMD graphics switching option that's selecting the integrated graphics for the game? I have no other Idea for that right now...

Are you using your eGPU in Gen1 or 2? Whats your average fps in csgo?
From what I read, Nvidia cards have some more performance in dx 11.
but I wouldn't think the difference is that much... can you check gpu load while running it?

Hello
Are you using the eGPU it on an external monitor? As you dont have an iGPU, it will be easier to get it working with one.
And which graphics card are you trying to get working?

On 17/11/2016 at 9:01 PM, N4RUS394W4 said:

I dislike these days laptops because they went the no repair route.

 

Look at the newest macbook. Everything is soldered on the logic board, even the ssd. Everything.

The higher end Clevos still have replaceable cpus as they use the desktop ones. But are rather expensive.
Well, What do you think about them?

Does anyone here noticed when Bplus suddenly raised the pricing for their eGPU adapters?

Lol, Easy fix.

I was really curious to see if those adapters would work properly.

Nice work in there!

4 hours ago, diabloretriever said:

yeah. thank you. It's great to create a custom case.

 

I am planning to use silverstone milo series ML08. but currently i own a ATX PSU. from what i read it should use SFX PSU but in limitation, they don't say that ATX PSU could not fit.

what do you think?? 

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=607&area=en

I saw some videos about it but just a guy said that normal ATX wont fit. I could not see it's interior very well in the reviews, but it doesn't seem that it would fit, as the case is only 1mm thicker than an ATX PSU. The side panels and bended metal to support the parts would have to be thicker than that.

I will make mine with black acrylic

11 hours ago, gharimanto said:

 

Me either who use pe4c v.3 

And I am still suffering unstable gen 2.

About RMA, that will be costly in my country.

 

You're lucky, man.

 

Btw, I Switch gen 1 And my PE4C v.3 still got crash.

 

But I'm okay with it

(because of desperation)

If it's not working even at gen1 then you should certainly send it back.

It may be useful to test your PE4C on a different computer to be sure it's indeed the adapter. I knew my system was able to correctly work with an eGPU because I firstly bought an EXP GDC that ran properly at Gen1 and crashed under heavy load on Gen2 but presented a performance gain. 

About the price to replace it, I had to pay the shipping back to china but BPlus was kind enough to ship the replacement for free, don't know if it's always like this...

The package was declared as $1 so I did not have to pay import taxes again, but then I think you may need to ask them to do this.

3 minutes ago, yeahman45 said:

ok thx man... still thinking if you should take the risk or not...

Another reason, apart from the price, I chose the EXP GDC V8 is that you can connect/disconnect it (it is not soldered) as my miniPCIe is found under my keyboard.. so it is not convenient having the adpater always connected to it. 

Have you tried a miniPCiE extender btw and know if it works?

I'm using Expresscard for my setup.

Which extender do you have in mind? It has be something with good build quality to deliver the signal. If you want Gen2 working correctly, less cabling/interference is always better.

4 minutes ago, yeahman45 said:

 

ah ok ... did you have to return the item? Shipping is going to cost a lot in my country. thx for helping btw

Yes. I had to return it for them to test it. Strangely it worked on Gen1 and did not crash at Gen2, just had terrible performance.

1 minute ago, yeahman45 said:

 

but why are so many users in this thread reporting crashes with PE4C 3.0 ?? Really want to order the PE4C 3.0 to replace my EXP GDC V8 (which crashes now and then with gen2) but PE4C 3.0 is 2 to 3 times more expensive thant the EXP GDC v8 and I don't want to spend so much money for something which will not be stable on gen2.. 

So are users reporting crashes with PE4C v3 just stupid users who don't know how to connect the GPU or are there really issues with PE4C v3 on gen2??

I don't know what's happening to others. But I had performance issues on gen2 with my first PE4C 3.0, so I made an RMA and replaced it with a working one. Probably some manufacturing issue with the cable or soldering...

8 hours ago, yeahman45 said:

I see a lot of posts about  PE4C V 3.0 not working or unstable on gen2 .. I am interested in a eGPU adapter mCPIe with stable gen2.. can you guys recommend one??

The PE4C 3.0/4.1 are the best that I know about. The PE4L 2.1 must be the same but has a smaller conector and pcb. If any of those shows Gen2 instability then you should RMA and replace them.

5 hours ago, diabloretriever said:

is it needed to use enclosure? to avoid dust?

Not really, you may just clean your card frequently. But I think it's good to have one to protect the card and organize the parts. I did not use my egpu very much yet as I didn't like having the unprotected gpu, psu and cables on my desk and moving it all around when I need to. I'm currently working on a case and when finished I will start using the egpu more frequently.

That happened to my Vostro. It's BIOS would only run at Gen1 by default, with no link speed options. So I used Setup 1.3 to reach Gen2.

Has anyone tried those new "XConnect" drivers from AMD?

Are they a solution equivalent to Optimus or am I confusing things up?

Would you have a way to test the GPU to check if it's working correctly? Or find a way to test the adapter on another computer?

On 15/05/2016 at 7:17 PM, jakethesnake438 said:

Hey, I no-longer have this setup. I never had cooling issues with my 8470 with a quad core

Nice. thank you.

I see you are using a Macbook now. For you, how much better was thunderbolt 2 compared to EC?

With TB3 coming out would you say it's better just to upgrade to it or TB2 is enough for near-full performance?

On 19/05/2016 at 5:13 PM, KernelPanic said:

As I am using this setup mainly to play video games I was wondering if there's any - besides having roundabout double the bandwith available - notable "real world difference" between running this card at ExpressCard Gen1 speeds and Gen2 speeds. I am asking this because I currently do have the chance to sell my EXP GDC and get an BPlus PE4C 3.0 instead (it's pretty difficult to get your hands on one of these without owning a credit card in my country).

Hi, Nice to know about your success with your eGPU!

I have switched to a PE4C 3.0 because my EXP GDC was crashing under heavy load on Gen2.

Running my 960 on gen1 generally resulted in lower fps than on gen2, unless on very light load (On internal display, Project Reality gave me over 42 fps on gen1 vs 58-60 on gen2. Anyways the eGPU was always faster than dGPU. There are also some benchmarks I posted some weeks ago in this topic if you want to take a look). But if you are ok with gen1 speed, I don't think there is anything to bother with.

Nice! It will be great if Gigabyte offers an affordable TB3 egpu. The Razer Core is just too expensive. Thank you for posting