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So I might not get a response due to the forum noob factor. Didn't want to open a whole new thread I'm not a complete noob however, I haven't been dabling in the world of laptops since doing my degree so I've been out of the loop. Now Im looking for work , but was curious about getting this crazy eGPU setup going on for my very old workhorse. Looking at what I've got, I was wondering with how much difficulty do you guys think I'd have implementing an eGPU setup as 1x, 1xe, 2x or if it's feasible at all with what I've got. A very old M1710, based on the E1705 Inspiron Mobo. Some similarities to the Precision series, this is way before optimus a nd a bit before ivy bridge existed. I know there's limitations, just need some expert advice if it's doable. I believe my TOLUD is 3.25GB, may be over that. Found posts telling me how to find out weren't as direct as needed. I have a very old 32 bit chipset, i945PM northbridge with ICH7 southbridge, 4GB ram. WinXp, will grab win 7 64bit Expresscard v 1 and mini-pci-e wifi are on here at the least. Reason Im interested is I simply can't fork out more than 400$ right now, and I don't need the best graphics, just adequate. My other option is slapping another video card in the laptop directly and hooking up an external inverter to power the display on (3600m / 8800GTS) alot easier but wouldn't be as awesome. (though pciex16 at least) If anyone can point me in the direction of someone who HAS got an eGPU working with a similar situation please just post a link or something. Appreciate any advice, I'll keep reading, the more I read about it though the more confused I get (minus getting the premise of what's going on). If I did this setup I would of course use the setup 1.30 for a small donation , looks like amazing work.