On 7/22/2016 at 5:00 PM, cuethenoise said:

Just hooked it up. All I had to do to get it to run was disable the main 750m card (I have sli) and install the radeon drivers. 

 

My laptop in firestrike by default gets: 

3379 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9461124

If I use the interal display (mirroring) I only get:

5308 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9461257

But if only use the external display I get:

8979 http://www.3dmark.com/fs/9461317

 

HUGE improvement in fact it actually beat the card running at 16x with a phenom II 965 (my backup system)

8 979 to 8381

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/9461317/fs/8949440

mainly due to the higher physics scores (CPU) although the GPU only scored 1000 points less over the mPCIe

So you did not download an unlocked bios to get the external gpu to work?

Just now, Mr. Fox said:

Well said, Brother Brian.

Or, if you love extreme overclocked benching it would be worthwhile for that. I'm about 90% overclock/bencher fanboy and about 10% gamer-boy.

Actually didn't think about that lol. I guess your right

Waiting for a 490 or getting a 1070 would be good but I thought they would be way overkill. He has a 1080 60hz monitor and the 1060 will be great for that. Anything higher would only be worthwhile on a 1080p monitor if your trying to push a 144hz panel.

I wonder when these processors might come out. I am looking to upgrade from my old laptop and a new build with these Kaby Lake processors would be great.

A 4k monitor with a high refresh rate would be a great but the cost will be insanely high. While they would last a long time, I think a 1440p IPS 144hz monitor would be a good middle ground especially since the prices are going down.

How exactly would you know what gen your Y500 is?

Just started watching Arrested Development and its great.

Other than that I love

The Office

Malcolm in the Middle

Stranger Things

Sherlock

Family Guy

Futurama

That's just to name a few.

I just helped a friend of mine build a new PC and initially he bought the RX 480 but after the news about the 1060 I told him to return the 480. I felt that the lower temperatures and better performance were worth the $10 over the blower style 480. Even after all this time there are still no aftermarket 480 cards yet. Whats up with that?

Glad to see people brought this to court and ended up winning. Just because they make great products doesn't mean they can flat out lie to us about specifications. My friend has a GTX 970 and he will probably be glad about this news.

1 hour ago, Psyrecx said:

So far I haven't had to change any bios settings. I just had to disable the GT750m in Windows. Otherwise I haven't been able to figure out if there is a way to use the internal monitor without an external one. I think it would be possible with custom drivers, but the videocard disables if an external monitor is not enabled.

So I assume you got the EXP GDC adapter or something similar and plugged it into the mPCIE slot, inserted a GPU then connected a monitor and it worked? I was concerned that Lenovo set up a white-list to keep unapproved components from working with the laptop. Do you have a Lenovo Y500 because thats what I have. I'm also on 2.04 for the bios.

On 7/10/2016 at 10:19 PM, Psyrecx said:

Questions....:

I'm getting my RX 480 tomorrow and need to know if there is a setting I can use to get the laptop to use it only on the internal display. The BIOS options are IGFX, PEG, PCI, and SG. I figured IGFX would be the standard GT750m, and I have a sneaking suspicion that PEG is the ultrabay GPU's option. So would one of these work to get the laptop to use the RX 480 through the WiFI's slot via my eGPU setup?

Also, is there a way to hard reset the BIOS aside from removing the battery incase one of these fails?

I am also curious about do this too. Hopefully all I need to do is download the files from this post and unlock my bios and use the EXP GDC adapter. Crossing my fingers.

The video isn't showing the interview for some reason?

Thanks for the guide! BF3 can definitely benefit with more optimization.

I own 480 games on Steam. Humble Bundle is my weakness lol.

Where did you get the flashed bios from?

Watched Hateful Eight recently and thought it was excellent. Interesting characters and engaging dialogue made for a three hour film that felt like it went by quickly. Highly recommended even to people who normally don't like Tarantino's work.