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Overclocking can improve performance, yes. I OC'd my XXX to the BE's clocks and I get about a 10-15 FPS boost.


I left my settings at default. They really didn't change anything in regards to my eGPU or internal one, so I didn't see the point in changing anything.

Thanks for your information.
I have the utility from gigabyte for overclocking the OC guru ll but I'm not sure how to safely overclock cause I read there are no particular settings for overclocking.
Also, when playing rise of the tomb raider on ultra the card struggles so I don't think overclocking will help.
Maybe I need a better GPU but this one runs pretty much everything smoothly on high settings.
Also, I'm playing on my TV (48") at 1920x1080 which might be one of the reasons why the GPU struggles on anything higher than High settings.

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Thank you again. Can't than enough.

This is pretty amazing.

I read about bottlenecks because of the mPCI-E but I noticed a big increase in performance. I can run most of the games in highest settings but certain games like Rise of the Tomb Raider can't run on highest settings well, high settings is great!

Overall pretty awesome.

Also this is so much cheaper than buying a new laptop like 5 times cheaper.

I'm running a GTX960 XTREME 4G. Does anyone know if overclocking will improve the performance even more or will I be just stressing the card but the output will be still the same due to the limitations of mPCI-E?

Thanks

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OK my system booted and everything worked. Amazing! Thank you so much

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What i did was add the card and it booted. Then I installed the latest drivers. Then I disabled the extra 750m GPU (took a little bit of trial to figure out which one was the one in the slot and not on the mobo). Then I booted up with the monitor hooked up to the eGPU. I told the bios to use the pcie gpu as the default. I had an AMD card (r9 290x), but I would think a Nvidia card would be easier. Remove the eGPU and install the latest drivers.

Then I disabled the extra 750m GPU (took a little bit of trial to figure out which one was the one in the slot and not on the mobo).

Can you please explain this in a little more detail.

My system booted now with eGPU plugged in - GREAT!

Btw, the fans are not spinning so I'm guessing you meant idle by not spinning.

Btw, the drivers are already installed and I can see the gtx 960 in display adapters.

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What i did was add the card and it booted. Then I installed the latest drivers. Then I disabled the extra 750m GPU (took a little bit of trial to figure out which one was the one in the slot and not on the mobo). Then I booted up with the monitor hooked up to the eGPU. I told the bios to use the pcie gpu as the default. I had an AMD card (r9 290x), but I would think a Nvidia card would be easier. Remove the eGPU and install the latest drivers.

Thanks. Did you change any of the settings in BIOS prior to adding the eGPU or did you leave it by default?

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I'll see the settings on my card. You probably need to install the latest drivers for the external gpu?

I will have to restore my system to the last working state, I saved a restore point cause I thought something like this might happen. I'm unable to install the drivers in safe mode.

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I'll see the settings on my card. You probably need to install the latest drivers for the external gpu?

Also, please tell me if I should delete the existing drivers once my system restores. By deleting the drivers, all these boot problems started.

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Yes but I can't install the drivers in safe mode

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C++ runtime not working in safe mode

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Well I had to restore my system to the last point of successful boot.

I will try the whole process again but Y500 was cleanly not made to run an external GPU with ease unlike y580 which has no problems

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Of course I did.

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Your plugging a monitor into the external GPU? The fans on most Nvidia GPUs will turn off at idle. I wouldn't be surprised if it was outputting video only out of the GPU.

Now there is something on the external screen but still the computer is in boot loop

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Now I only have only one option under display adapters

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Should I do something with the PTD switch? I tried setting it to 7 seconds and then to 15 seconds. The result was the same - boot loop.

I can load into safe mode properly but why can't I load into normal mode[emoji24] [emoji24] [emoji24] ?

So basically I'm safe mode the internal graphics card is disabled so it has no problem starting but in normal mode, the internal graphics card loads so then it can't choose between the iGPU and eGPU. This is my guess..

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This is my problem every time.

I reinstalled everything from scratch... Same problem persists

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I'm stuck in boot logo now. This is a disaster.

What am I doing wrong?

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No video signal from the eGPU

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Well I had to restore my system to the last point of successful boot.

I will try the whole process again but Y500 was cleanly not made to run an external GPU with ease unlike y580 which has no problems

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You flashed an unlocked bios right?

Of course I did.

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Also, should I remove the log in password?

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I tried using the settings you provided but the computer didn't want to boot. It was stuck in a bootloop. Here's the thing: the computer boots into safe more and the eGPU is recognized in the device manager but the computer doesn't want to load in normal boot. And suggestions?

Thanks

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The computer is in safe mode. This is okay but I can't really use it in this mode.

Please help

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Thank you. I'll try and see if it works

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This is my BIOS setup, maybe I did something wrong.

Second scenario is when completely black screen but the fans are spinning and no external screen output.

This is frustrating

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This is my setup below:

The problem is that the fans on the external GPU stop rotating after windows boots and it's stuck in boot screen.

I'm using GTX 960.

ALSO, the external screen is simply blank.

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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. 

 

How did you disable the main 750m card. I have the same problem. I can't get my eGPU to  run properly. Every time I connect it, the laptop boots into black screen and the eGPU fans stop spinning.

What should I do? Please help.