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    How do I setup my eGPU with external monitor instead of laptop monitor?

    Discussion in 'e-GPU (External Graphics) Discussion' started by douirc, Sep 13, 2016.

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    douirc Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi. I have a PE4C with GTX 1060 6GB running on a X230 Win 10 8GB machine. When I plug my monitor into the eGPU the monitor runs fine but when I try to play a game or run a benchmark it displays on the laptop monitor instead of the external. How do I turn off my laptop monitor and just get it to run on my external?

    Also, I assume performance would be better on the external monitor since the Expresscard doesn't consume bandwidth sending the video back to the laptop monitor?
     
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    It was actually easier than I thought. Windows 10 has an option in the Display Settings to output to a single display only. I selected the external for single monitor only and eGPU performance increased by 22%. This now leads me to question how to measure performance. How do I know if the Expresscard is running Gen 1 or Gen 2, how much bandwidth is being consumed (is it maxing out?), is the GPU working at max capacity, etc.?
     
    douirc, Sep 14, 2016
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