manolis

1 minute ago, Swung Huang said:

For y400/500, external monitor is required.

for y410p/510p, if you use nvidia cards you can have your games rendered in the internal screen. For AMD cards I’d say that you’d better attach a external display.

A modified BIOS is required.

ok so a modified bios is required for nvidia and amd?

@Swung Huangalso will the adapter support both card vendors, nvidia and amd to play on laptop screen or will  i need external monitor? and finally modified bios will be needed?

3 minutes ago, bakadis said:

i think he want to avoid customs in his country so he ask you to not put the right value in the package.

exactely, because i had some unpleasand experience from my customs i been asked to pay more than the actual product was (60usd and they asked for 110euros)

2 minutes ago, Swung Huang said:

1.The second verison is going to cost more. If you still want it, just put in your request in the first blank and I can customize that for you. It may not go into mass production for too little demand.

2. Shipping , taxes & additional fees added by customs will not be included. For too much country to deliver, I don’t really have the effort to check the policy of every country. Sorry for that.

ok i am ordering the acrylic version and if there will be enough demand please let us know as my first priority is the version with cable, but if not then i am for the acrylic.

As for the customs all i am asking from you is to mark the package as gift and put low value 10$, thank you

@Swung Huang could you explain the only board it will be like previous model as geralts? i mean for the acrylic stand which will it be, the first or the second with the expansion pci cable?  because you had posted some photos on your previous post.  Also if you shipp it from China could you mark the package as gift and put low value lets say 10$? because i had issues with customs in my country, thank you. 

i am also interested for the cheap version,

@Zakyn have you solved the issue? any updates?

here all credit to @geralt

Hello everyone,

i tried with different rates and i got stable up to 83Hz (i have the LP156WF1-TLB2), but then i put it on testing because you can't see the small even glares. So first with movies i found that the 75Hz is pretty good for me, please note that even the default 60Hz has some very tiny. After that i tested on games, well when the game is loading you can see some tiny glitches on the back, then i put it on 60Hz and the are still the lines but they are surelly less. And when the game runs the results are better with 75Hz . So as far for me i guess it's objective, and by that i mean even with the default 60Hz it's still not perfect so you must compromise. For me personally i will stick into 75Hz.

6 hours ago, DesPaIR said:

I came across this thread looking to see if I can use the Beast adapter with my Y410p laptop. Looks like there are better options possible.

After reading through the entire thread I wanted to try and build the Ultrabay adapter just as a side project. 

I will be ordering the ultrabay connector from the website links posted earlier. 

 

Can anyone PM me the semantics file shared by @geraldOr the one others have worked on and modified. (I am not able to access the link as I am relatively new in the form)

Hello, since you are new member i can't send you either pm,  https://ufile.io/z1yg5, the shematics from gerald, also note that you will need ultrabay adapters, (in my case i had ordered them but unfotunatelly the coustoms asked for extra 100euros i am from greecce, so i rejected the package, i had ordered 7 pieces , and thus i abandoned the project, however you're from states as i see so you wont have coustoms. If someone will create those adapters will gladly buy for me). Also you'll need the power pin adapter for power supply, and some transistors, resistors, capacitors, all these can be found if you google the product codes from the schematics, so i wish you good luck.

@Zakyn Which transistor did you used and it did not worked? maybe it was not the proper because the model BC847C have several, some are 90mV and some other 600mV, also they differ on Hz here

Also if i understood the board is functioning on 25V so the resistors should be the appropreate and with how much tolerance? 

I am looking the geralt's schematics v.2

On 10/22/2018 at 1:41 PM, Zakyn said:

 

Hi, I had the same idea, but Gerald wanted to keep his plans (which I totally understand), so I found Lenovo schema and tried to design adapter by myself. I have already soldered PCB, it was not that hard it just take some time. It is not working yet, but I believe I just overlooked or misunderstood some Lenovo tags from schema. When I will make it work I will definitely release whole project for everyone.

@ZakynHello, so did you finished the project? because i have ordered ub and will try to make it myself

On 18/11/2018 at 8:55 PM, manolis said:

ok thanks i understand, i will search further

ok so here is my best result i got about pricing of pci-e x8 ultrabay connector, i contacted alibaba, taobao but they are expensive, here is the best i got here 4.4euros/piece they told me that shipping to europe is doable with shipping cost 18-49$ depending the method. In my opinion it's cheap, i would built myself the adapter but with limited knowledge and experience its very hard, for that i am waiting for the next badge, thanks.

40 minutes ago, High_Voltage said:

@jxfong2 You'll need to power the laptop with its own power brick and the eGPU with a separate desktop power supply. Also, keep in mind that RTX2070 has not been tested with this adapter, so there's a chance it won't work.

 

@manolis Unfortunately, you can't use a regular SATA 2.5'' drive caddy for connecting to Ultrabay socket. The Ultrabay system doesn't use SATA connector inside the bay, but rather a separate high-speed PCI-e x8 socket located next to it. It is buying the plug part for this socket (cheap and in low quantities) that is a problem right now.

ok thanks i understand, i will search further

41 minutes ago, jxfong2 said:

@Swung Huang  @Celestus

TY for replying, some silly questions here too:

1. Does we have to remove the wifi part etc and use an usb wifi etc to use this adaptor? Just read this somewhere from the internet.

2. Does the laptop gets powered up by the gpu power supply or we have to use 2 power supply with eGPU setup?

 

I will probably buy a RTX 2070 to run some deep learning training on GPU once I got the adaptor. The performance of GT 755M is really bad on training data, 50x slower than my classmate's laptop (GTX 1070 TI). Just ran an user benchtest and this is my result on Lenovo Y510P.

 

UserBenchmarks: Game 20%, Desk 46%, Work 33%
CPU: Intel Core i7-4700MQ - 67%
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 755M - 12.5%
HDD: Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB - 49.5%
RAM: Samsung M471B1G73QH0-YK0 1x8GB - 30.9%
MBD: Lenovo 20217
 

12.5% for GPU, nearly all PC beats me lol...

no you don't need to remove wifi just plug the adapter to the sli/ultrabay slot, as for the supply clearly you will need external psu approx 600watts

forgive me if i am wrong but i am novice and don't have access to ultrabay schematics, so if i use the connector from the second ssd adapter, which is very cheap https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Universal-2-5-2nd-12-7mm-SSD-HDD-SATA-Hard-Disk-Drive-HDD-Caddy-Adapter-Bay/32614778761.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.13.7de76f20CesGdX&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_4_10065_10068_319_317_10696_10084_453_10924_454_10083_10618_10920_10921_10304_10307_10922_10820_10821_537_10302_536_10059_10884_10887_100031_321_322_10103,searchweb201603_1,ppcSwitch_0&algo_expid=99fde3ec-0f34-4261-a513-713512deb08a-2&algo_pvid=99fde3ec-0f34-4261-a513-713512deb08a

and connect it to the beast egpu will it work like PCIe x8 and not PCIe x1?

Hello, i am interested on Geralts adapter if someone have please let me know, thanks.

i am keen on trying rtx nvidia 2070