you are a fucking lad you never complain, you make quality videos and you don't sellout please never change. Much love from ireland

Celeron = Power Point Presentation

Try it with an Intel Atom Netbook....I wanna see just how far those pieces of plastic hell can be pushed.

Finally, the simplest video i ever found about External GPU

Its a bit annoying that all youtube videos on this uses a laptop with a terrible cpu, i would like to see a video which has a laptop with an i5/i7 hooked up to an external card, to see the full capablity of the dock

I went all out and tested this with a 1070 gtx. On my Asus Rog G750 780m, I basically got a 4x increase in performance, but compare to a regular 1070 benchmark I'm only achieving between 70 and 80% of what is expected from this card. Still it's an amazing improvement that will let me push back my laptop upgrade of at least 2 years. This little piece of plastic is absolutely amazing for the price!

just a reminder though, with this adapter your using only a PCIE-x1 connection, and depending on how old or new it is, it can be either 3.0 or 2.0, which means if your only getting PCIE 2.0 at x1 itll be 32 times less bandwith then a full PCIE 3.0 x16, including it might be going through the North Bridge instead of the CPU's lanes which means its slower and USB, Hard Drives, and DVD Drives can slow it down even more although either way, it'll be better then IGPU's

Someday I know that you will make it to a million subs. You deserve it.

Be careful when doing this on an HP laptop, they have a whitelist in the bios preventing the computer to boot if it detect anything connected to the mini pci-e port that is not one of their wireless adapters

Finally a external GPU dock that isn't $200+ Edit: how did I get 800 likes on my crap comment?!?!?!?!

173k subs I came when you had around 2k subs and I can't believe how fast this channel grew , keep up the good work :D

Love this little device, thought about purchasing it but decided to build a pc instead.

you are what i can't, somebody who wants to make a lot of fun experiments with hardware. keep it up, WE LOVE YOUR VIDEOS 😍

i have bought this one with msi gtx 960, i paid about 140 dollars for them, got it working on my laptop which is 2011 samsung laptop with i7 2670qm 8gb ram and nvidia 520mx, cant be more happy, i was playing games with lowspecgamer tweaks, now i dont need any tweaks, games running very well for me, many thanks for lowspegamer.

Great vid! I really like it how your gaming and PC setup habits are similar to mine. It helps me build decent rigs for the price. Keep up the simple but informative and concise format. Cheers from the Philippines!

you explain much better than other videos how to set up an external gpu

Lowspecgamer also did this

I know you mentioned that older laptops have Expresscard, but this is actually a blessing for some as it is easier to insert and remove the expresscard versus taking your wifi card out. Also, you don't have to use an ATX power supply. If the card has low enough power draw you can use an external power brick with many of these. I plan to do this soon with my laptop. I have a Dell XPS M1330 that I've pretty much upgraded as far as possible. Upgrades I have made are a 120 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM (those DDR2 SO-DIMMs are not cheap), Windows 10 Pro, and a Core 2 Duo T8300 (400 MHz bump from the original CPU). I would consider removing the optical drive to replace with a storage drive, but it is slot loading and I'm not sure if it is possible. I also purchased a new battery for it recently. My understanding is that the Expresscard slot is equivalent to PCIe 2.0 x1. Certainly won't be a gaming beast, but any improvement is welcome. I plan to buy one and pair it with a low power graphics card like a GT 710 that should provide a boost from the Geforce 8400m that shipped with it.

I knew you was going to do this soon or later. Great video :)

thank you brotha for being one of the only youtube tutorials with understandable accent hahaha

try the gpd win

This seems like too much hassle for a laptop to be honest.

I had no idea something like this even existed. Flawless video.

That looks seriously amazing! The setup looks weird as hell but im glad someone bothered doing this thing.

Ahh good ol' days when everyone played with 10 fps... :)

My moms going to kill me if I took apart her office laptop just for a gaming 🤣🤣. Can I mod my acer aspire e 14 this method? Or should I change the cpu as well?

Love how inventive this guy is, keep it up man. I would love to see Intel T cpu's benchmarks with turbo ON and OFF vs Intel K cpu's.

Great video, I've seen other youtubers screw up this topic. Great to see a working recommendation

How does the laptops monitor receive all the data from gpu? Is there anything connected to the back of gpu? I dont get it. The gpu receives data from that express port on motherboard, but how the laptop gets it back? We all know that you have to connect the monitor to the gpu for it to work

Finally youtube wasnt 5 minutes late recommending a video!!!

I've been following this peripheral for a good while, I hope they eventually make one that has a more convenient power solution.

i had this exact laptop for so many years! since I was like 8 until 13 or so, it was amazing at the time, i forced it to play so many things like Dishonored and dark souls, i don't know how I finished all the dark souls games (excluding 3) and put 190 hours into fallout new Vegas on that thing! i remember watching so many "boost your PC" videos, good times, i think i still have it around, thank you for the nostalgia trip, I'll try booting it up and see what's on it!

Im noob at bottleneck but , why dont u try for example a 2core 4 threats i5 laptop with htat dock and with a gt 1030? is that a good idea?

Been with you since 90k love you bro keep up the vids

This. This is the reason why I signed up for this channel. Beast. I love it.

nice video dude, just a recomendation, since you are talking about the external GPU, I think, that it would be nice not only talk about the frame rate improve in the games, but also about things like if the processor get bottleneck or not with this graphic card, or show how much workload the processor and the graphics card have while you are playing. I think that this could be really helpful for the people with similar laptops to have and idea about how much they can push their own pc's.

You should try this on a better specced laptop just to see what would happen. There are plenty of laptops with good CPUs available (i3, i5, i7 even) but the graphics cards hold them back. Would be interesting to try it on one of those, using a better GPU as well. Would also be interesting to try this out on an older gaming laptop that's still mildly capable, but held back by the dated GPU.

*Biggest issue is missing H key lol*

This is one of those I got a exspensive laptop back in the day then and cant afford a new build and got this instead.

Another great video,You are my fav youtuber for pc stuff.

oh. My. God. I have that laptop in my house! I'm writing this comment on that laptop! now to get one of those cos I can't game on this thing!

*_Yasss!!!_* Finally proper eGpu review for budget gamers

That's a very budget friendly upgrade... All you need is a small customised casing for the unit

Great Video, I was recently just researching online about this device.

GTA IV with external GPU upgraded is much more like playing GTA IV on Console (PS3/X360)

Yay ! You know what ? i was searching about Egpu when i saw your popup, you're my favorite google add 😀😊

I thought this was lowspecgamer for about a minute, then I noticed the voice.

I love this, straight to the point.

Your lowest spec laptop is my most powerful laptop ;-; (Desktop's an i7+750Ti+16GB combo, don't worry).

Any chance of hooking up your GTX 1060 for shits and giggles? If it feels to risky (i.e. GTX 1060 goes kaput) I'd totally understand.

I love your tutorial, hello from roumanian :)

The card design is lit af

What PSU do we need for the GC ? It's should be less than a desktop one, no ?

*Before buying this* This device is extremely unstable and requires a combination of compatible hardware and luck, if you have amd cpu - u can't use It, Intel dual core cpu - performance is trash, old gpu - performance is trash, powerful gpu - performance hit and most likely won't work (gtx 980ti/titan), Amd gpu's require annoying set up and may not work, nvidea gpu's have higher chance at working, most likely you are going to run into errors when just getting It, you will need to do a dsdt overwrite if you use a 2gb+ video card, your computer may not even work with something else in the mpcie slot besides Wi-Fi card, power outage in your house will damage your computer And gpu with this working, you cannot use any new nvidea video cards 10xx or titan/Quadra based on Pascal (if you try an succed 1060 maybe the highest you use since higher will degrade performance because bandwith limitation). Understand all That? Well here are some more errors you can run into Windows error 0x00000001 Blue screen of death Black screen of death Error 42 Error 43 Error 12 Won't work if you have non integrated gpu in your laptop Gpu not detected Randomly stops working Gpu performing slow Not enough resources on the bus There are some of the problems you will expect when setting up, you will experience at least one or 2 of the above when using edpu dock and some of them can't be fixed. You can have a chance at fixing it with setup 1.3x but that cost extra 20$ I have purchased this gpu and besides the 1 full month shipping fee was not able to get it working and ended up selli g it 3rd party for less than I bought it for, my view is not worth It, save up for a pc, you can buy a fx6300 and a motherboard as well as 16gb ram for it for cheap and pair it with a 1050 and that's 400$ but guaranteed to work

Thanks mate .....I requested for an egpu video in the first gtx 580 video few days ago and viola you made it..best budget gaming channel keep going

Nice videos man. Love your channel and use it often to show people they can get into PC gaming without spending loads of money. I'm planning on making a video like this myself with my Toshiba Satellite l755-s5153. It currently has a Pentium B960 in it. I'm gonna upgrade it to an i7-2670qm (can be done as I've read it on a few forums). Then pair this with a 750 Ti or a 1030 so my GPU is super bottlenecked by the CPU and more on par with each other. Again love your channel man, wish I had the time to do videos like these as well :)

Should have a Celeron D with a GTX 1080 ti

lod laptop

You are awesome for showing this device. I can play current games on my Crapcer (crappy Acer) after I fix the Windows 10 issue.

"It's a beaten up old laptop" nope, that's mint condition. I have a laptop from a friend that wanted to just throw with the case literally being held by adhesive tape, no screws. The hardware still works fine tho, so I just kept it instead of leaving it to die in the thrash

any recomendations for an anti-virus software

People need to stop asking for their comment to be pinned

more bloody good content! thank you!

Luv your vids 🎥

Lowspecgamer did this

Rhd 30fps playable and smooth! Llt 120fps @ 4k ok! Really some people has different taste for being budget gamer! Llt spend 20k$ for games rhd spend 20$ for games and enjoy it !

Gday. Thanks for doing this video . Ive been looking around for DIY GPU for laptop solution

I saw this video at lowspecgamer but i like ur attitude more ;)

yup... 50 likes ans 3 views.. KZfaq logic

I have one of these. I made my laptop into a gaming laptop with it. I also screwed the slot onto the back of the laptop and made the video board work with the built in screen. It is the "ExpressCard" one and the whole setup works well with a "HD 5750". I will put a link here so that you can click on it and see it some time later.

I forgot how nice Oblivion looks

I've got the exact same Acer laptop but I did buy it expressly for business use and webcam recording, not its gaming prowess. It came with Windows 8 (not 8.1 as it wasn't available at time of my purchase) which I later upgraded to Windows 10 and installed some software to stop Microsoft snooping on me. For lightweight use I find it pretty damn snappy actually and I love the laptop.

This is pretty cool.

Can you please go through the setup of the external gpu in detail? Like how to get the laptop to recognize the gpu and stuff.

Oh, gonna order this dock.

Good review!

thinking about buying one of these!

Is there one via M.2 Pcie slot. My laptop doesn't have a regular pci wifi card slot. It has some new "fancy" M.2 slot...

I was wondering if you could use one of those pico dc-dc PSU's since they're a hell of a lot smaller and would made the jumble of cords a lot less of a mess

holy eff i've been waiting for a review on this! rip razer core, lol.

That GTA IV physics XD!

I have been using an external GPU dock for over an year now for my laptop (i7 3632QM) and I'm very happy with it. Initially I also bought the GDC Beast but as I found out it has issues sometimes. What I mean by issues is the cable that is not soldered to the unit and my GPU drivers would pop errors from time to time and that resulted in the game crashing. After a couple of months I bought the PE4C V3.0 and this runs with no issues since the cable is soldered to the unit. It's more expensive but it is alot cheaper than any of those 200$+ docks out there. Plus I haven't seen any of those docks with mPCIE connector that I need. Sure the connection does bottleneck my GPU (GTX 1070) but it enabled me to play all the games that I want at 60FPS (with lower details but still). As a reminder for anyone wanting to get one of these you should use an external monitor as well since the performance is about 20% lower when using the built in monitor (it only works with nvidia cards on internal monitors anyway if I'm not mistaken) . Adding this performance loss to the already existing loss of performance from the connection is alot. Also you don't really need a PC power supply. I bought a DELL DA-2 Series D220P-01 (216W) power supply adapter for 15-20$ that is alot smaller and less cables to worry about. One final thing is to stay away from GTX 1050 and GTX 1050Ti. Last time I checked those had issues since nvidia did something to their newer drivers to break eGPU docks. Any other nvidia model works nice since you can install older drivers and update to latest after that. Since the GTX 1050/1050Ti were last to come out those older drivers don't support those cards. I don't know if anyone found a solution to this I haven't been researching lately. A usefull forum for any eGPU stuff is www.techinferno.com

If i was to use something like an rx550 that normally draws power off the mobo would I be able to use this gizmo? Assuming I'd still need to use an atx psu to power the thing..

Thanks for making a video about this adapter! I'm wondering wether to buy it or not

Can you make a budget build featuring those good old phenom II

Really cool solution, Maybe I'll try it out sometime on my own laptop.

Thanks a lot !! I asked for this video.

I wonder, would a card like a GTX 1050 that gets it's power from the PCI-e lane work? Without the powersupply and stuff?

hi can i use an egpu without the power suply? only the 12V ac adapter?

Thanks for the video, there are many devices like this and I really can't decide which is best, as their prices also vary greatly. 30$ isn't too much and it does provide good results

Please check out more of these strange PCI devices!

tis....tis beautiful !

You explain it very clearly 🔥🔥

Will the *MSI GTX 1060 OC* work with V8.0 EXP GDC ?

I have an old Asus laptop with interchangeable gpu. I was planning on converting it to a desktop. Can I keep the wifi card and hook the external gpu dock on the gpu slot on the motherboard?

The GPU performance is also limited by the bandwidth of the PCIE / m.2 ports. Am currently using an express card version and some of the quirks include - it runs only with less than 4GB RAM (anything higher than that and I get a 'not sufficient resources allocated' error.

Could you please add a link where this specific items can be purchase. Tks :)

excellent video making

so what latest budget laptop will be compatible with this idea? with a i5 core

What are the names for the cables you use to power up the ext. graphics card?