Lenovo Thinkpad T420 + Pe4l 2.1b/c = Success!

Hi there! I'm here to preach the good news that my setup, comprised of the Lenovo Thinkpad T420 4177, Corsair CX430 PSU, PE4L 2.1b/c, and Nvidia GTX 560 TI are together working famously. I am able to play games that my good ol' Thinkpad could never have surmounted before! Whilst playing some of my favorite graphic intense games I ran tests and wrote them down in a handy dandy notebook, which I will happily transcribe for you guys here:

ALL GAMES AT MAX RESOLUTION(for my monitor () 1440x900.
Battlefield Bad Company 2: ALL HIGH AA ON: 45-100 FPS
Battlefield 3: ULTRA (AUTO): 22 - 60 FPS. (Usually is around 40-45 though, depends on the scenery, but still very playable.)
Portal 2:HIGH 60 FPS (I guess I left VSYNC on haha)
Fallout New Vegas: Max Settings 100+ FPS <-Was very surprised hahaha.
Diablo III: High 50-70 FPS

The card also maxed my Windows Graphics Score. It is now the highest score in my system.

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Here are some more pictures of what I did with my setup, making handy a used USPS box.... hehe

 

Where did you get a 2.1b / c ? PE4L ( PCIe Adapter ver2.1 ) this reads like A to me but absolutely not sure. Also, you installed the video card upside down ? Good idea.

 

Well actually I had to, or else the fan would blow into the cardboard -_-.
The website really needs to be updated. That is the link I ordered from, I assure you they ship you the 2.1b. They just forgot to update it haha.

 

Very nice dude!! love your enclosure good job

 

Isn't it inconvenient to insert/remove the ExpressCard every time you get back to your desktop? I guess depends how often...

 

I thought the adapter was only PCIE X1 so how'd you get an X16 card into it?

 

They still fit. It just doesn't have nearly the bandwidth x16 has.

 

Can you desribe all the steps you did to get it work?
Have you been using eGPU Setup 1x?
can you post a Gpu-z screenshot of your eGPU?

 

me too. ordered from eBay German, only 10 days to shipped to me in Babgnaldesh

. now i am designing the case to give spaces of this parts... it's really awesome.

it will be fine if you show how to connect each other in the diferent view.

 

Hello everyone,

Excuse my nubness, I've been trying to figure out this whole EGPU thing for the last few hours reading though all the pages.

This is kinda exciting I remember, when people were replacing the GPU's in laptops a few years back!

I have a T420 4177 to be exact, and a spare ATI 5870 since I just upgraded my desktop to a 780GTX.

My 420 has a NVS4200 and Intel HD3000

I would like to know if I can hook up my 5870 (i know will probably be overkill but it's sitting doing nothing)

Can someone tell me what the advantage of having the PE4L over the PE4H is? When you guys talk about multi connections for faster PCI express are you talking about hooking up the m-pci and the card reader slots at the same time to the GPU for more bandwidth?

Which should I order, I see the PM060a/EC and HC. I'm guessing I want the PM correct, but then how would I also hook up the card express adapter?

I was looking at the pictures of the posted setup, how does the little connector attach to the who video card? Is there a little port on the top? I don't see a whole pci connector on the tiny connector?? Also how do you power the video card, is the 2 8 pin connectors enough to power the card doesn't it need the the pins on the bottom of the pci express connector hooked in?

 

So far i know that Pe4l is PCI 2.0 and get faster performance that pe4h. Yes you should connect pe4l with GPU with this little card. there should have extra power connector for GPU. I have GTX560, there are 4 x3 12v power connector for GPU's power sopport.

You can read this why Pe4l is better

 

I was reading but the PE4H is 2.0 as well according to their website now.. I know the PE4L is cheaper. Is that the only reason?

 

Here is good comparison
PE4H vs PE4L
http://forum.notebookreview.com/e-gpu-external-graphics-discussion/680986-pe4h-vs-pe4l.html

 

I have a Thinkpad T420 with PE4L-EC100A + GTX 460 + GlacialPower gp-al550. All working excellent together.

I don't have a dGPU (dedicated GPU - Nvidia in your case). If you want to use the internal screen then you should check your BIOS settings if you can turn off the dGPU and use only your iGPU (integrated). If you can't turn it off through BIOS then you should use Setup 1X (nando's program).

This is all you should know. If you want to check approximate games performance then you can watch [eGPU x1.2Opt Internal Screen] TERA - YouTube x1.2Opt Videos

 

I see that this is old thread but I'll try anyway...
I just got my PE4L and tried to connect to my T420.
I can't get my eGPU detected, I got HD 4830 and some old 400W PSU.
Do I need to make any changes in order this to work?