Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?

[bobthedinosaur]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1522180

Riiight....

[aegis]

it actually works. well.

and there's a premade enclosure for doing this if you want to burn some money.

[hoijui]

500W recommended by GFX manufacturer, and he gets a 550W PSU for for the GFX card alone!

[JohannesH]

Hmm, how much power would a GFX card alone really need though? Would it be enough to grab a weak PSU from some old unused computer...

[hoijui]

if i remember correctly, my very first PC PSU was 230W.
if the recommendation for the whole system, including GFX card is 500W, i can not imagine that the GFX card needs more then 200W alone.

[aegis]

nvidia says gtx 480 is 250w max, so any new cheap $5-10 ~400w psu would probably work for any graphics card

[bobthedinosaur]

Well after reading some more into this, it looks like the only way for this to work is an external display, which means using the laptop as a desk top. With that much trouble you might as well buy a desk top.