Buying 50% more power than you need today may prevent you from buying a whole new card next year.
If you buy a card which barely handles today’s most demanding game, it will start having to bail water with the next generation game. Powerful machines get better quality images slower machines worse, such that a 10x more powerful machine won’t have 10x the frame rate.Īlso, for a variety of reasons, the workload per frame varies wildly, so having an over-powered machine means that on simple frames the graphics card might be idle much of the time, but on demanding scenes it can keep going at 60 Hz or whatever, while a weaker machine will start suffering from frame stutter.Īnother reason is to somewhat future-proof your investment. Games can tune a bunch of parameters up and down (resolution, fine/coarse texture maps, realistic physics, smoke effects, degree of object tessellation). Game writers know their games will be played on machines of vastly different capabilities. Yes, there are a lot of good reasons why someone would be willing to pay more for faster hardware. * multi-card setup (expect for SLI) is PITA on Linux, as you will end up with two X servers… Also while I think it is possible to do PCIE hotswap on linux I doubt connector is up to it and even if it would do, I wish you luck with configuring X server so you don’t lose your work each time you connect/disconnect egpu )īrian, your reasoning is flawed. * my NVS card used no so new chip, meaning software-SLI (without additonal gpu-gpu cable) was not supported (BTW this is quite cool feature in itself if you don’t care about performance but about multi-monitor setup like I did)
* I was always worried about ziff ribbon, which I hid in clearance between second disc bay and laptop case during transport I have used something similar in my dell latitude (no hacks required, just adapter + psu). I have seen some mPCI-e to PCI-E adapters using HDMI cables instead (AFAIR 2 of them) – that would make it more movable. You have ziff ribbon connector which is kinda fragile and not so easy to connect. Posted in computer hacks, laptops hacks, Video Hacks Tagged eGPU, EXP GDC Beast V6, external graphics card Post navigation ran some benchmarks and upgrading from the stock onboard GTX870m to an external GTX 780ti resulted in over three times the frame rate capability - 40fps stock, 130fps upgraded! You’re also going to need an external power supply. He’s using an EXP GDC Beast V6 which uses a mini PCIE cable that can be connected directly to the laptop motherboard. But after that’s done you’ll also need a way to mount your graphics card outside of the laptop. You’ll have to modify the BIOS first, which according to, isn’t that bad. Now unfortunately this really isn’t quite a simple as running some PCIE extender cables - nope. Well, wasn’t satisfied with the performance of his Razer Blade GTX870m laptop, so he decided to hack it and give it its own external graphics card. But laptops are pretty powerful these days, and in our experience, a lot of engineering companies have actually swapped over to them for resource hungry 3D CAD applications - But what if you still need a bit more power? It used to be that desktop computers reigned king in the world of powerful computing, and to some extent, they still do.
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