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Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 05:00
by bobthedinosaur
Re: Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 05:19
by aegis
it actually works. well.
and there's a premade enclosure for doing this if you want to burn some money.
Re: Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 09:54
by hoijui
500W recommended by GFX manufacturer, and he gets a 550W PSU for for the GFX card alone!
Re: Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 14:42
by 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...
Re: Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 15:06
by 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.
Re: Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?
Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 16:50
by aegis
nvidia says gtx 480 is 250w max, so any new cheap $5-10 ~400w psu would probably work for any graphics card
Re: Boost your laptop's performance witha desktop graphics card?
Posted: 22 Aug 2010, 13:42
by 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.