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    Expresscard 54 vs Thunderbolt

    Discussion in 'e-GPU (External Graphics) Discussion' started by Ownie, Sep 19, 2014.

  1. Ownie

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    Hello

    I bought a zbook 17 from school but the gpu isn't that good for games.
    So I was looking around on the internet and found this possibly great solution of egpu which I didn't know even existed.
    My laptop has both expresscard 54 and thunderbolt, which one of the two should I use?

    Thanks in advance
     
    Ownie, Sep 19, 2014
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    Thunderbolt, u'll get x4 link that doesnt have losses in practical way
     
    skatelove, Sep 19, 2014
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    Hi bro, i just researched a bit and find something peculiar... thunderbolt cfgs are only in macbook... so if u have any other brand consider pe4h or pe4l to make it done... so i didn't explained it wrong, thunderbolt have better signal/noise ratio over the connection and a better bus access but i dont see any development over it for windows, in other way pe4h/pe4l to ec2c have a looooooot of testing and if u can get 1.2Opt u'll be nearly the best performance u could have... im too newbie im only googling and reading the faq and experiences, for now im collecting info to know-how...

    At least u have choices away from the wifi mpcie, i only have 1 mpcie slot and a expresscard slot that is not soldered xD, so if u dont care about buying something for test, test thunderbolt and show it if not go for the trusted method, pe4l + e2ec (the + of the equation is a cable xD so if the "+" is soldered it will be near to the ideal and u'll get a better durable connection with lower signal/noise ratio), these things don't happens with Thunderbolt, but well.. good luck bro!

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/e-g...61729-compal-qal-51-limited-bios-options.html

    here's my thread, so if u can add something feel free to post and make me google! haha \m/
     
    skatelove, Sep 23, 2014
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