Sompom Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Hello all, I would like to submit information for a new hardware configuration! After months sitting on the shelf, I have just connected my nVidia 560TI to my i5-470UM HP TM2-2151nr laptop First results seem promising. I pushed Skyrim up to Ultra (no mods yet) and the 560TI hardly broke a sweat. However, DOTA2 presumptuously sat at 20FPS no matter what I set the graphics to... I'm downloading the benchmarkers, so I'll edit this post with the results ASAP. For those wanting to setup this laptop themselves, all I had to do was go into Setup 1.x, save the settings for slot 2 with my WiFi card inserted, then reboot with the eGPU (PE4H) set to 7s delay, enable slot 2 and restore the saved settings. I also disabled the ATI 5450m dGPU. I was able to boot with it enabled, but I have always had raging driver problems where the backlight wouldn't come on, and it is selected by default when the system boots while plugged in. So I just disabled it to avoid trouble I am also able to boot with 4GB of RAM, even without doing PCI compaction. The one time I tried PCI compaction, it crashed Windows 8. My computer takes a long time to boot with the eGPU, so I decided not to try again. Would PCI compaction give me a performance boost? Edit: The answer to my question seems to be yes. I did a before/after on the Resident Evil Benchmark and I got a few FPS performance boost with the PCI compaction Thanks, Sompom My setup: Windows 8 HP tm2-2151nr* Intel i5-470UM 1.33-1.6 GHZ** nVidia 560TI 4GB RAM 3Dm6: 8781 RESvar: Default settings, DX10 - 23 FPS Fixed test, 35 FPS Variable *I believe this laptop is basically the same as the tm2-1xxx and the tm2-2xxx. But no promises! **I haven't really looked yet, but I expect that I'll find this processor a little weak. This could be why DOTA was lagging. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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