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@Plastixx I am using the latest drivers for my gtx 950 (which also covers the gtx 1050) and it works just as normal on the laptop display.

@cunning_fridge Ah well if you purchase the eGPU kit with the adapter you would get the 8pin dell power adapter. The thing is, it is cheaper to buy a power supply than to buy the power adapter (since the PSU can do more that just be used on the eGPU like the 8pin dell adapter). But if you have a 12v adapter you might want to ask on the purchase page what is the specs and the size of the power jack needed for the egpu adapter since I don't have those specs on hand and have not seen it on their page.

@n3uralhack3r Congrats man.

@cunning_fridge The post above yours have shown a GTX 1050 working without additional power except from what is drawn from the eGPU dock slot. As for if the 12v adapter would supply enough power to the 75 watt card, the answer is yes. It should even power cards for up to 150 watts (not 100% sure on this) with the additional 6 pin connector on the side of the dock with only the 12v adapter supply the power.

@n3uralhack3r No wrong, remove all drivers whatsoever with DDU, disable windows from downloading any 3rd party software in Windows Updates and disable the card (the laptop GPU) in device manager. Once all is clear of that, start your laptop and put it to sleep, once asleep hot swap the wificard for the GPU and wake the laptop (your GPU should start to run). At this point windows should detect the eGPU as basic display adapter, go to NVIDIA website and download the latest driver and install. DO NOT RESTART, after you have installed the new GPU drivers, put the laptop to sleep and hot swap the GPU for the wificard, wake the laptop then restart. Once the laptop has restarted, put it to sleep and hot swap the wificard for the GPU and wake the laptop. AT this point you should be able to use the GPU as normal.

@n3uralhack3r Yes it is because you did not disable the laptop GPU. You don't really need a BIOS option for this as I don't have one. What I would suggest is to read this post, it will explain how to properly disable your laptop GPU using the device manager. Explanation starts at the third paragraph.

@n3uralhack3r I hope you see this message before purchasing, but I would go with a gtx 1050 with a bit more VRAM, I think there is a 4GB version. If the 2GB version is your only choice then go for it but if you have a chance to upgrade to the 4GB do it. I find my 2GB VRAM fills up real quick in modern titles like the new skyrim and GTA V. Best of luck.

@n3uralhack3r My setup consist of the GTX 950 which does not have a power connector either (its an ASUS mini which you can check out here). Good news and a bit of bad news; in my experience it worked without the extra power connector for about an hour and then crashed (thats the bad bit) but the good news is that if you use MSI afterburner and down the power limit from 100% to about 85-90% it works without a problem. You should not get any performance difference with this reduced power so don't worry. Attached image related. Since I am here, has anyone been able to download Forza Motorsport Apex, I am getting a DirectX issue on the requirements section of the download page and as such not allowing me to download. See attached image...

@sashok724 If I was you I would not give a damn about the laptop dGPU and outright disable it and uninstall the drivers for it. If you are going with an eGPU solution your primary goal should be having an environment most suited for your eGPU, this includes GPU drivers of the latest, not what is compatible with 2 different cards. So my advice, get rid of all drivers (except for your HD graphics drivers) using DDU (display driver uninstaller, free from guru3d) and reinstall the latest version of your eGPU driver. Make sure your intel drivers are up to scratch as well (chipset, HD graphics and intel audio [if applicable]).

@sulocanx If you are running a modded BIOS, there should be an option to force gen 2 on the PCIe port, that's what I did on my laptop (however, I had 4 PCIe ports showing up in BIOS so I forced the first 2 to gen2). Strange that your laptop and my laptop has the same name for the BIOS, I am running a modded A11 BIOS on my XPS 15. However, I see you have setup 1.3, I have never used that before so I think it might be best to forward this concern to Nando since he stated that his software suppose to force Gen2 on the PCIe port even if the BIOS won't do it. But I am still seeing that gt525, if it was properly disabled and its drivers removed, it should not be visible by your system (windows would see it as a generic display device). Go to your device manager and change the "view" (the tab on top) to "Devices by Connection" Look for a heading marked PCI to PCI Bridge, there is multiple nests (heading, titles whatever you call it) of this, one of them should be nesting your iGPU (gt525) disable the whole nest (see attachment), I already disabled mine so you won't see it as having anything in it, but you will see yours with your iGPU in it.. If this does not open up your PCIe port to 2.0 instead of 1.1, maybe a driver needs updating. By the way, what software is that you using, I like it. Hopefully I am communicating properly with your, if there is anything mixing you up, feel free to point it out.

@paypaytr Don't interfere with those options on the eGPU adapter yet, the atx power option is whether to have the power supply running constantly or to have it on with your system, given you don't have an issue of it turning on, you don't have to interfere with that. The option thing is a timer, a delay (15s, 7s and off), this is to delay when the eGPU is detected by your system). Try booting up without the eGPU plugged in, once you have booted plug it back in and see if it "sees" the device. If that does not work, shut down the system, boot back up (without the eGPU) and put the laptop to sleep, plug in the eGPU and wake the laptop, see if the GPU is detected.

@paypaytr Did you boot up with the GPU already attached? Also, did you try scanning for hardware changes in Device manager to see if it comes up? Also which GPU dock is it, check in the bottom left corner to see which it is, because I have the latest version (beast 8.4d) and my light color is blue not green. And one more thing, while you are in Device manager, click on view (top bar) and click on "show hidden devices", see what is under the display adapters now, there should be something other than hd 3000, take a screen shot and post it.

@sulocanx I checked the video for outlast 2, that is performing wonderfully. I checked other people's gameplay of outlast 2 on their GTX 760 and they were (strangely enough) on par with your results. When I checked your video for battlefield one, I am seeing your GT 525m present, are you switching between the GT 525 and GTX 760? if that is the case, your PCIe bus must be saturated; however, look at the Bus interface, it is the same as your GTX 760 so there isn't anything you can really do about that. And once again with your witcher 3 gameplay is right around where I'd expect it to be, you were using your internal screen after all. Some stuff you can try are disabling and removing the drivers for the gt 525m (together with some other stuff that may saturate the bus), using an external monitor and if your monitor support sound output, use the sound on your monitor or the headphone jacks on your monitor, this is because you are again saturating the PCIe bus with audio transfers from GPU to CPU and then to speakers on the laptop (GPU processes the audio with its APU [Audio Processing Unit]).

@sulocanx hmmm that looks like scores within reason. Maybe you should give me some of your gaming numbers as these synthetic tests don't always show the bigger picture. According to 3DMark website, a GTX760 and and i5-3570 gets: 3Dmark11: P9588 and Firestrike 1.1: 6091 Just remember we are using a mPCIe slot to operate a GPU, so getting what desktop gets won't be possible. However, if in games it isn't performing as how it should (even taking into account the above) then try disabling some stuff that is on the PCIe bus (create a restore point before attempting this). Maybe some other things is saturating the bus and not giving optimal performance. You can try disabling a few things under the Network adapter or making sure your old GPU is disabled as well (even if the drivers for it is uninstalled). Crap I was watching the wrong persons image, sulocanx, you are already operating at 2nd gen mode, that's what the 2.0 stands for. the 1.1 is the bus width (you can't do anything about that, its the physical size of the actual slot). Post some of your game scores and settings, maybe it might shed a bit of light for me as to your concerns.

@sulocanx Is there any major performance issues, is your card not performing as expected at this setting? Also try clicking on the question mark next to the bus interface and start the render test, see if changes.

@Sandaruwan I have made a post above your initial post, read it in full, the issues you have and the solution is posted there. @ags167 Not something I would use, go with a regular power supply, a 430W PSU should be more than enough; 12V @ 10A may not be best for your card. With a regular PSU, the wiring isn't difficult. Doing a bit of research you have to use a PC PSU since you need 2 6-pin wires for a GTX 760 (as far as I am aware). Going with the power adapter you suggest won't work what so ever, so don't try it.

@Sandaruwan What was the procedure you used to get the eGPU running, maybe from there I can help you.

So guys I have gotten my egpu dock and I am currently using an old geforce 9500gt and it is working great thus far. The only problem is that dell has whitelisted the wifi port that has to be used with this dock, but I will explain everything with this post. So you have received your dock, PSU, GPU and want to hook it up, well follow this guide: -Start your laptop as normal without hooking up anything or removing anything. -Download DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) and run it (it would want to run in safe mode, do so); [this would remove any drivers and files of the gtx540m drivers properly, but don't remove anything to do with intel graphics]. -Restart your laptop twice (just a save measure). -Once you have restarted and in windows, put the laptop to sleep (yes to sleep). -Whilst the laptop is sleeping, flip it over, undo the cover to reveal the ram and wifi module. -Remove the wifi module (yes this is how it is done to bypass dell's whitelist). -Hook up the egpu mpcie cable to the wifi port and screw it down. -Don't rewake the laptop just yet. -Hook up the rest of the egpu components; [the GPU to the dock, the mpcie cable to the dock, the power supply to the dock (see manual for this, and REMEMBER, DON'T ATTACH THE 4 PIN CONNECTOR TO THE DOCK POWER CABLE THAT IS TOGETHER WITH THE 20 PIN ATX CABLE, USE ANOTHER 4 PIN CONNECTOR, THIS WILL CAUSE A SHORT CIRCUIT AND BURN YOUR PSU). -Once everything is connected awake the laptop, the laptop screen would power on as normal. -Go to device manager and look under display adapters, you should see some generic microsoft driver with a yellow exclamation mark, right click and update (you would need to have an ethernet cable plugged in). -Once it finish updates (takes anywhere from 5 minutes to 20) it would prompt to restart, DON'T`!!! -Put the laptop to sleep and take out the mpcie cable and put back the wifi module, wake the laptop and then restart. -Once the laptop has restarted, wait a few minutes for it to properly start and then go to device manager -Under device manager, look under "Network adapters" and disable everything under it (except for "Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N" -After, put the laptop to sleep. -Once again, replace the wifi module with the mpcie cable and then wake the laptop. - You would notice nothing happens, this is normal. -Go to device manager and look under display adapters, you would notice your GPU is there but with a yellow exclamation mark, the error code you would see is error 12, this is normal and a good sign. -While in the Device manager, click on "view" and "device by connection". -Expand "Microsoft ACPI x64-based PC" and nested under that would be "Microsoft ACPI-Complient System" expand that as well; nested under this is "PCI Express Root Complex" expand that. -Look for anything pertaining to the old gt540m and disable it, also look for anything pertaining to bluetooth and disable it, but not wireless-N. [to note, the stuff for the gt 540m would be nested under its own thing, disable that whole tree that nests the gt 540m]. -Once this is done, close device manager, put the laptop to sleep and replace the mcpie cable with the wifi module and restart. -After restart, wait a few minutes and put it to sleep. -Replace the wifi module with the mpcie cable and wake the laptop; do not do anything at this point, wait a few seconds and your secondary monitor would start to show a display. -At this point you have setup your external GPU. Things to note: In order to go between your GPU and your wifi module, you must put your laptop to sleep and switch them, (that's why anything pertaining to wireless-N was not disabled). Trying to start the laptop with the GPU already attached would not work, everything would be blank but yet your laptop would seem like it wants to do something. The error 12 code is pertaining to not enough resources for the new PCIe component to be ran. If you are looking for a simpler means of this external GPU setup, there is a software called Nando Setup 1.3 that simplifies the setup without need to disable anything and for the constant sleep to swap GPU with wifi module, you can also boot with the GPU already attached using the software, but it costs US$25. If you are using a recent card after 2010 and is nvidia, you can use the laptop screen instead of an external display; however, I would recommend using one during the setup procedure. BUT, using the internal monitor would reduce the performance of the GPU to about 30% less, this is because the mcpie lane is being over saturated. On a side note I am using modded A11 BIOS for my laptop with PCIe 1 and 2 forced to gen 2.

To mrdatamx, I would like to know more about the dsdt, I am currently having the error 12 (not enough resources or something like that) and I would like to fix it. You mentioned a guide, can you kindly provide that for me please, thanks. Nevermind, I managed to fix it by disabling a bunch of stuff in my device manager.

Guys I need help badly. I have purchased the EXP GDC beast v8, recieved it today and it is a bit different, the mPCIe connector looks a bit smaller that what I have seen and inside the grey box I see the name says it is an beast v8.4d EXP GDC. When I hooked up everything and try to boot, nothing shows up on the external monitor. I am using an NVIDIA 9500gt as a test card before I recieve my gtx 950. What can I do to fix this issue, I don't have $25 dollars to spend on that setup 1.3 software thing. Please help. System: Dell xps 15 L502x (site said it is compatible with my laptop) Bios: a12 (stock) If you guys need any other info, just ask. Nevermind, I figured it out, check my following post to see.

Hey guys, I am new to this website and wanted a question answered. I have a dell xps l502x and I am looking into this eGPU solution and wanted to know if these parts are the right parts for the build: eGPU adapter - http://www.ebay.com/itm/181943864835?rmvSB=true GTX 960 - http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Whisper-Graphics-02G-P4-2966-KR/dp/B00SC6HAS4/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1455585361&sr=1-1&keywords=gtx+960 500w power supply - http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Continuous-Warranty-Supply-100-W1-0500-KR/dp/B00H33SFJU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455585434&sr=8-1&keywords=500w+psu Once again I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. If they are compatible, I will invest in the parts and report my experiences.

Hey guys, I am new to this website and wanted a question answered. I have a dell xps l502x and I am looking into this egpu solution and wanted to know if these parts are the right parts for the build: eGPU adapter - http://www.ebay.com/itm/181943864835?rmvSB=true GTX 960 - http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Whisper-Graphics-02G-P4-2966-KR/dp/B00SC6HAS4/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1455585361&sr=1-1&keywords=gtx+960 500w power supply - http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Continuous-Warranty-Supply-100-W1-0500-KR/dp/B00H33SFJU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1455585434&sr=8-1&keywords=500w+psu Once again I am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question.