Are external video cards for laptops worth it?

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Thenasty:
75 bucks, i'll take 2 shipped :)

Howard_Casto:
I wish.... I might not even get it. There is a lottery where my mom works when they are ready to upgrade their tech..... more employees than laptops. So it's one per person and if too many people put in for one they pull the names at random. They've got ipads for 75 as well, but again, I can only apply for one and I'd rather have the laptop.

I've gotten a few over the years.... some were great deals.... some were probably a decent buy at best. They've all had very little wear on them though.

knave:
For what its worth the HD 4000 integrated graphics runs a good amount of indie and older games.

I bought an off lease dell latitude and I play games on it all the time. Often I get med settings @720p. on older FPS games

I think for $50 it would be fun to try the external provided you have an old desktop GPU around.
It kind of ruins the portability with the dock, gpu and power supply all hanging off your lap.

Buy this laptop and use Steam in home streaming to play games from a more powerful PC.

Howard_Casto:
Well I found these little buggers:

https://www.amazon.com/Fixable-Adapter-Flexible-Extension-Connector/dp/B00IMYODGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503188317&sr=8-1&keywords=pcie+extender

Apparently people use them for the fruitless cause of bitcoin mining. I'm wondering why I couldn't just use that. I mean it is a pci-e slot afterall, even if it is a mini slot. The thing that freaks me out about it is how in the blue hell is the data being carried over a usb 3.0 line? The hdmi cable the other adapters use I understand... there's a buttload of pins in hdmi, but I don't get how 4 pins are sending data from 20+ pins unless it's being converted to usb 3.0 and then back again. That seems like it would defeat the purpose.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 19, 2017, 08:24:50 pm ---Well I found these little buggers:

https://www.amazon.com/Fixable-Adapter-Flexible-Extension-Connector/dp/B00IMYODGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503188317&sr=8-1&keywords=pcie+extender

Apparently people use them for the fruitless cause of bitcoin mining. I'm wondering why I couldn't just use that. I mean it is a pci-e slot afterall, even if it is a mini slot. The thing that freaks me out about it is how in the blue hell is the data being carried over a usb 3.0 line? The hdmi cable the other adapters use I understand... there's a buttload of pins in hdmi, but I don't get how 4 pins are sending data from 20+ pins unless it's being converted to usb 3.0 and then back again. That seems like it would defeat the purpose.

--- End quote ---

As I don't see the point with bitcoin mining, these adapters are for headless gpu processing so 624mb transfer rate in a cluster seems feasible. USB 3.0 cables are the weak link. You are not going to get quality with $6. This would not be a solution, for your laptop scenario. I wish I could go back to year 2000 and buy 300 bitcoins for $500

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