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    Can this laptop upgrade its GPU. And to what model?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by leladax, Jun 19, 2013.

  1. leladax

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    No
    Yes and no.
    It does not have express card or thunder bolt, but you can take off the back cover and use the wifi card slot for egpu.
     
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    I wonder if it would be fast at all.
     
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    Wait, that slot is white listed, and even if it work, it will be pretty slow due to pcie x1 only.
     
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    Where do you find that information?

    By the way. I heard that Sandy Bridge chipsets give v2 speed.
     
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    Because HP limits those slots so they will only work with certain WiFi cards.

    By the way, if you want to add something to a post you've created, use the edit button. Don't make a new one.
     
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    I can load a freedos, I'm not a child. No need to be hostile.

    Bottom line, is it worth upgrading its 6570m with it, and what is the cost?
     
    leladax, Jun 19, 2013
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    No, it likely won't work because of the WiFi whitelist. If you plug anything but a white listed WiFi card into that slot, it will fail to boot.
     
    hockeymass, Jun 20, 2013
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    I can test it I suppose very easily by removing the card. And there's a freeDOS solution if it doesn't boot.

    My greatest worry is that it's probably not worth the cost if it's too slow.
     
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    FreeDOS is not going to get you any further since the white list stops the computer from going past POST.
     
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    Yes it requires you to add the card to the white list or edit the bios.
     
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    As I said, I'm not afraid of tinkering with the booting process.

    My main worry is that I see little use if the GPU is extremely slow to spend money for it.
     
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    It will be heavily bottlenecked by bandwidth, check out the egpu experience thread at tech inferno.
     
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    I did. It's not horrific but it bothers me that it loses at least 50% of performance.

    It would be BETTER than what I have but it's irritating thinking about it: Making the laptop X2 bulkier with the PSU etc., and then losing 50% of the value of it? Meh.

    If at least I could get at least 70 or 80% of the performance I might do it.
     
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    what GPU are you thinking of?
     
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    Well I was thinking a regular $200 model that would be admirable for the job on the desktop. It appears that to get the same performance on the laptop with a crippled 1x connection, it might need at least $400 and I'm not sure it's worth it. It's also a matter a principle, it's like throwing money out the window.

    Besides, if I reach a point that I give 500-600 for the whole solution, while not also buy a good 2nd motherboard and GPU right?
     
    leladax, Jun 21, 2013
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