Swung Huang

11 hours ago, elecsdude said:

It seems there is also a SATA connector in the ultrabay aside from the PCIe.  Is there anyway we can add a SATA connection or better, Fit a 2.5" HDD self-made enclosure in the empty space?

I won’t include it in my design but it can be a relatively simple mod to do the trick.

 Maybe I have sent them before in this thread, but I will sent it once again in case you can’t find’em.

There’s two ways of doing it.

You can either glue a ordinary ODD to 2.5inch HDD tray to the adapter or using a slim SATA cable to attach the drive outside the machine.

Under the circumstance of the external cable one you could just run a SATA powering line from your PSU so that you can power a 3.5inch drive.(If you decide to use your PSU for your drive’s power, there’s no need for slim SATA cable. An ordinary SATA will do the trick. 

There can be some aligning and fitting work to do to make it working.

19 minutes ago, Swung Huang said:

There will be another version for full length GPU+SFX PSU

I won’t do ATX PSU for they’re too big and therefore being meaningless.

Also there can be a version without casing.

 

I can’t give out any price estimate for now. Maybe I will double check the costs later and label it for an reasonable price.

Everything will be subject to the final announcement.

(ps. I think it won’t be very cheap, as I said above. As a student this project has drained my wallet

What I said here may be absolutely false. Everything can be changed. Please be subject to my final announcement.

44 minutes ago, jxfong2 said:

@Swung Huang, for the second option do you offer multiple sizes/choices of acrylic case where the daughter board is located? Eg. Flex ATX PSU + mini ITX GPU,  SFX PSU + mid length GPU (270mm) or for full length GPU (300mm) etc? Your sample images in page 47 is only suitable for mini ITX GPU. Any price estimation?

There will be another version for full length GPU+SFX PSU

I won’t do ATX PSU for they’re too big and therefore being meaningless.

Also there can be a version without casing.

I can’t give out any price estimate for now. Maybe I will double check the costs later and label it for an reasonable price.

Everything will be subject to the final announcement.

(ps. I think it won’t be very cheap, as I said above. As a student this project has drained my wallet

23 minutes ago, DesPaIR said:

Does it include the Adapter as well or just the casing? Count me in if its both.

There might be 2 versions.

I. Board adapter with acrylic supporting (You can also buy the supporting part individually and assemble it to your existing Gerald version of adapter)

II.Adapter with cable and daughter board in a case. It might be expensive, for the PCIe cable is not cheap anyway. I don’t have the time to trial and error, but I can guarantee I ship the things works well.

Won’t begin shipping before June.

I’m preparing for an exam and I had to spend all my time into it.  will be back then.

(have already send the pics of my design in this thread. Just browse the previous pages of the thread if you want to take a look at it)

On 2/19/2019 at 6:15 AM, Blk6Jeff said:

Good afternoon,

 

I recall that someone was working on casing for gerald's eGPU. I was wondering if any progress has been made on that, or if it's still a thing being worked on?

It’s a finished product:) 

Anyone who wants it may reply to this posting and I will consider shipping them?

Won’t before June

10 hours ago, Veter said:

This is probably good news. How much time do you need?) Аpproximate.

I have said somewhere in this thread before. I will take part in my NCEE on 6/8 2019 and it finishes at late 6/9 UTC+8. Then maybe I will go on and work on the adapter. I can’t give a exact time but you can estimate using the time I said before.

On 3/23/2019 at 11:46 PM, ChuchoAV said:

Hi new member here, been following this forum for a bit, hopping not to sound rude, is there any news on this adapter?

They are still alive, and I could still make them in the future.

After I finished my NCEE......

3 hours ago, rusTORK said:

I tested eGPU only, but it was tricky. I have to disable BOTH iGPU and dGPU in BIOS and it give me funny thing = system boot, i hear windows loading sound, but screen is black. Then i instert HDMI emulator in eGPU and boom - i see loging screen on internal monitor.

That’s true? Wow.

 As far as I know, the internal display relies on the iGPU to work.

If only an emulator can do as you said, maybe there’s a way to use eGPU @ internal display on y400/500.

Can you share your related bios/system settings? Huge thanks!

4 minutes ago, WholeGrainOats said:

Would it be possible to instead design a thunderbolt ultrabay adapter?

It’s not possible & no need & have side effects.

To convert to an TB3, you will need a TB3 controller. Till now I have no idea how to get a controller working on regular PCIe.

Also the Ultrabay itself provides enough bandwidth(PCIe x8,and just the PCIe itself without any other mess) while TB3 is PCIe x4. You are just cutting your bandwidth in half regardless of TB protocol overhead.

The only reason for this is hot plugging the gpu. I know hot plugging PCIe devices is a thing but for now I have no idea how to implement it...

Also I have two versions of adapter. One is the board (the one similar to the Gerald one),and with an arcylic supporting to hold the GPU in place. You can also purchase the casing if you already have gerald’s board.

Another one is cable-case model. There’s an module plugged in the laptop and running a cable to the box where GPU is in. Then you can put your GPU aside and won’t have a GPU in the way!

Both version is planned to be shipped in the mid June.(If there’s nothing else preventing me to do this

1 hour ago, High_Voltage said:

You've actually made a really good point here about 1600/2000-series cards. Has anyone tested any of them?

RTX2000series is confirmed to work. I have got a 2070 working on my machine. And I’m trying to get it work with internal display(using Looking glass or sth like framebuffer copying.

 I’m gonna assign my y400 for campus dorm gaming machine lol.

I’m still not working on it tho. I’ll be back in two month.(NCEE is starting from 6/8 8:00 in CST/UTC+8)

Wish the god bless me!

14 hours ago, AllanDavidson said:

In August last year, after a Geforce Driver update, I started to have some artifacts and cold boots with disabled eGPU (demanding a restart), so then I changed something in the BIOS setup (something like "Enable internal graphics" from "auto" to "always), and then I got a black screen on boot forever. It doesn't matter what I tried, nothing worked. I disassembled and reassembled it several times, shorted the CMOS, changed TIM, leaved without power and battery for 6 months straight and it still doens't work. I tried pretty much everything, even blind bios reset (following the instructions on another thread), but nothing.

Here is the step-by-step (No battery, HDD/SSD or eGPU connected)
1. I press the power button
2. The power LED goes ON
3. The keyboard baklight goes ON for 1 second, and then goes OFF
4. The CPU/GPU fan goes ON

5. Screen is black
6. After 5 seconds I can feel some heat coming out of the left side
5. After 10 seconds the screen is still OFF
7. Pressing the Power button (apparently) does nothing
8. Pressing (or holding) the Delete, F2, or Ctrl+Alt+Del (apparently) does nothing
9. After holding the power button for 5 seconds the laptop turns OFF as it should

10. Turning the laptop on holding Delete or F2 also does nothing

 

Should I throw it in the trash bin?

I have experienced this after my RAM upgrade for my y400.Then I have the RAM slots cleaned up and put the RAM sticks back and it works fine. I haven’t confirmed it is ACTUALLY caused by the RAM. But maybe you can try to swap the RAM slot or clean slots up and give it a shot?

Having the cable replaced and got a new design on laptop side.

Now running @ PCIe 3.0 x8 stable.

(Will get these things for sale, but not now.

7 hours ago, rusTORK said:

Yeah, i saw such mods. Linus posted video about it, but it was known before he founded it. It's interesting mod, but cost of CPU about the same as non-modded LGA2011 Xeon.

 

Actually i got two ways: rebuild laptop in desktop OR build desktop on old hardware (like LGA2011 + 8 or 12 cores Xeon). Problem with this - there are a lot CPUs, but motherboards are gone. Most of them are china custom made (like desktop board with server chip). it's working, but bad overclocking. Don't want ot deal with it. So, i am stuck.

Well,these boards works fine. I’m actually Chinese and had got in touch with these guys who made these.They are using cheap chipsets (like h61/b75/b85 etc.)to make them work with 2011 cpus.(Those super cheap ones.)

Sth like huanan board can be trusted. They are provided with overlocking options.

22 minutes ago, rusTORK said:

It's always interesting to read about something new. Where i may read about it?

well,sorry I made a mistake. PGA can’t be modded (for physical height) BGA can do the trick(47xxHQ, like 4712HQ 4722HQ

53 minutes ago, rusTORK said:

Yep, my idea was just transfer as much laptop hardware in desktop case as possible. And this is interesting option. I even double check compatibility of Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX form factors and they are compatible with my very old pc case Thermaltake Soprano.

 

One thing i currently don't understand... how motherboard is powered... only from square 4-pin? I don't think PSU even start. Main power usually is 20-24 pin.

 

I shoot Supermicro support few questions anyway.

…actually they are usually directly powered by dc power plugged at the rear io section.

well these are standard off-the-shelf boards and meets mATX/mITX standards.

btw if you intended to use like this,it’s possible to mod an cpu to lga115x and be installed as desktop cpus.(not reversible though.)

5 hours ago, rusTORK said:

Usually i don't share information for personal use, but i can make an exception.

 

 There is company called- Supermicro and they have pretty a lot diffirent motherboards. I founded one interesting motherboard for Lenovo Y500 - X9SCV-QV4.

 

It's have got:

 

1. Intel 2nd or 3rd Gen Core i7/i5/i3 supported; socket G2 (rPGA 988B);

2. Up to 16GB DDR3 1066/1333/1600MHz Non-ECC SODIMMs;

3. 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot (Gen 3 with 3rd generation CPU);

4. LVDS connector onboard (may be tricky to connect laptop display, need compare pins).

 

It's more expensive, but an alternative. Also, i have no idea about GTX 10xx series support and desktop CPU heatsink support. Need to chat a lot with Supermicro support, but it's real product.

 

Options from ASRock:

 

ASRock IMB-170-V (for Lenovo Y500, PCI-E x16 Gen 2, but maybe will work as Gen 3?)

ASRock IMB-180 (for lenovo Y510p, but no data about PCI-E x16 generation at all).

These are desktop boards using PGA988 though. Just some off-the-shelf boards, not something special and not interchangeable with the motherboard inside the laptop...

They should be compatible with all kinds of GPUs though (for they are retail boards and having nothing like smbus restriction nonsense 

3 hours ago, jxfong2 said:

TY for reply, so the current bottleneck of this project is the lack of components to build the adaptor I see... Hopefully some pro guys can still get some to make it for sale, or else rebuilding a new Desktop with good GPU will be too costly.

 

 And I read from the previous page, if I understand it correctly nvdia cards above GTX 1070 (GTX 1070 TI, 1080, 1080 TI, RTX 2070, 2080,2080 TI) has the same performance as 1070 because of CPU bottleneck?

Actually u are wrong.any work put on the egus should work with no compromises. People say there’s a bottleneck at cpu ‘cause most of games should not only require a good gpu but also a beefy cpu. But it’s not necessarily true and most of tasks can have their own preferences (like most of miners pair pentium/celerons with multiple 1080s. That’s because crypto mining doesn’t demand cpu a lot. As for your question, I’d say:your mileage may vary. Under different circumstances ,different cpu/gpu pair can perform completely different.it depends on your workflow.

you can learn more here.

11 hours ago, High_Voltage said:

The ADT solutions implement PCI-E x4 by making use of the PCI-E lines available in the m.2 NVMe connectors.

Haha I’m actually using ADT cables for my wire-daughterboard solution.(using 2 PCIe x4 cables) ADT guys are friendly and supports me doing this.

Well, I’m sorry for my absence.

Long story short, I’m really busy working for my University entrance exam and having no time dealing with these things. And I’m gonna find out how to deliver an international parcel...Ehhhh I haven’t did that before and have no time to figure out how to do this.

I really don’t want to disappoint you guys, but I won’t be free until late June next year. I wonder how many people still want these adapters at that moment. Maybe I’ll find a way to post an international delivery. But that won’t happen before the time I mentioned before.

sorry guys.

If anything changes I will let you know.

Some recent updates.

32 minutes ago, intruder said:

 

You have to restart after disabling gpu. I still have a hard time understanding what you want to do here. Posting a screenshot will help.

 

Also, if you want to define which app should use which gpu you can do that in Nvidia Control Panel as well. 

 

I'm waiting for my new psu to arrive then I'll test the "Display Settings" option.

Yx10p are different from Yx00.Yx10p have intergrated intel graphics so that they can easily utilize Optimus to accelerate internal screen(also the internal screen is wired to intergrated intel gpu. However,Yx00 does not have intergrated graphics (disabled physically) so they should do some tricks to make the inner screen accelerated.(If any stable solution is appreciated.) the internal screen is directly wired to dGPU(GT650/750M),which makes Optimus impossible to use. (Seems that win10 grahical settings won't do the trick, but I'm not sure)

When I ran COD8 on my bios modified y400, it prompted to tell me I'm running it in a virtual machine. And seem the error code 43 is related to virtualization things...so the software on it thought they are on a virtual machine?(I am pretty sure they are running on bare metal.) So just what happened there?

5 hours ago, balint234 said:

Please someone watch this video because im not sure anymore if i am retarded and still fck something up even after like the 8th try 

or im unlucky as always and my card is just simply not compatible with this egpu solution

 

EDIT: also this gpu is GP104 and not GP106 like the usual 1060s

I have encountered this kind of gpu and solved in my told way.if you still stuck on a 43, just perform another ddu and start over is always a good idea.

25 minutes ago, balint234 said:

also in GPU Z there is a code    1B83

yep. That's the problem. You should add that Id to the driver and install the modified driver.