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StratusEnd

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  1. So thought I'd give everybody who read my earlier post asking for help, a bit of an update! Obviously I own a Dell Latitude E6440 which is pretty out dated, but I think its an all around good laptop, you can buy it cheap and its quite versitile in its avaliable upgrades. So I have and EGPU which in all was pretty cheap. I went to CEX (exchange shop) to get myself a GTX 950, this cost my £60, the connector I used wasn't a GDC beast or anything snazzy, it was literally labled as "EGPU DOCK" and cost me around £3.00 (Free PP), The power supply I bought was a CiT 500W Active 85/80 plus bronze power supply unit (cost me £29.95). I connected it all up and did the paperclip trick to get it so the PSU was powered on, then I tried to detect the GPU and couldn't. Luckily, this laptop is pretty nifty and all I had to do was swap the GPU input to the laptop with the WiFi card, boot up, detect, get drivers, then swap it back round. Now I can plug and play (with a reset or I crash) without having to buy some crappy setup 1.35 or anything like that. I think that all of the help suggests you buy this setup, but if you spend enough time googling your problems(such as error 43), you can find a way around each of them. I occasionally have to disable the GPU and enable it again and I noticed that it over heated fast & had some stability issues. I used MSI after burner to change the fan speeds, making it so its almost always powered on and runs high, now it never goes above about 50celcius, which is pretty cool. I was still noticing stability issues though and a few blue screens here and there, so I did a bit of bench marking and realised it was the damn CPU thermals that were always 97ish going up to about 100 and blue screening (Although the log always blamed the graphics card) so I ordered some liquid metal, took out the CPU heat sink, cleaned it, coated it in a little bit of liquid metal (if you do this PLEASE WATCH A GUIDE AS YOU CAN SCREW IT UP) being careful not to get any of it anywhere else (as I didn't buy the protector stuff you can get) I booted it back up and bam, 70-80 temps and the computer runs absolutely fine. I bought the laptop second hand so I'm unsure about exactly what the specs are meant to be, however I will post mine (not fully completed) Lastly I put in an SSD because why not? It made the computer run like new and takes about 8 seconds to boot, give or take about 3 seconds. (Definitely worth getting) Dell Latitude E6440 Intel i5-4319M 12GB ram (Will be upgraded to 16GB) IGPU (Intel HD 4600) EGPU (GTX950) This is in the port under the top right corner (as I'm looking at the laptop now) Kingston SSD (boot drive) 120GB (about £17-19 on ebay) Kingston SSD (Data drive) 480GB (this one was just a disk drive to HDD caddy, think it was like £2.99) So yeah, I have a few more upgrades to do, going to upgrade the processor, the ram, replace the back lighting (If possible) and if any of you have any other upgrades you can recommend. I've heard mention of a hidden port under where the disk drive is, but I've not been adventurous enough to explore that deep yet, as my tools would probably break the clips. So if anybody has any recommendations, please let me know! You can steam me at EpicFatGuy (if thats allowed here)
  2. Does anybody know anything about getting a gtx960 working with an e6440? If I roll back the drivers it seems to detect it and accept it, I can also put stress on the gpu to test it, however I have no idea how to make it my computers gpu as NVidia control panel doesn’t load
  3. Basically, I have dedicated graphics of 4600 and I bought a gtx960 to get a bit more gaming juice, ive plugged it into the port closest to the Right speaker (I believe it may be 7, the express card slot in a previous picture I'd seen) Basically, the GPU is detected but has error 43. I've followed steps and downgraded to 368.81, reset and it seems to say its working correctly in the device manager, I can also use GPU-Z to get it to spin up, however it doesn't seem to appear any graphics memory is being used. (I have disabled the dGPU) If I try and load up any game, I think it must be running on CPU only, because I get no more than 1fps
  4. I know this topic is years old, but the E6440 is my current laptop and I've run into a problem with an eGpu if anybody is around to give assistance.
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