External Graphics Card

Has any been released? I've heard of Asus having one in production from two years ago, but I haven't heard of anything afterwards.
Anyone know anything?

 

The asus one never made it to production, but there IS one that's going to be produced...gahh I don't recall who's making it though. Give me a few minutes to find out. Rest assured there will be one.

 

http://www.villagetronic.com/vidock2/index.html

 

Wow this vidock looks impressive!? any one got one?

 

the price aint impressive though, might as well get a fookin dekstop.

 

if they can get it to run with out having another moniter i may just buy one in a few years.

 

I think the size of the Vidock is too big, it is too expensive and it can't drive the internal screen. I will just stick with my internal GPU's since they will improve a lot in the coming years anyway.

 

From what I've heard the performance increase of using the Vidock with a system that has integrated graphics is considerable (well, relatively speaking), but there doesn't seem to be enough of an increase from low end dedicated graphics options to justify it. I'd expect you'll see a performance drop if your lappy had a mid range or high end card in it already.

 

read this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=397667

It's a much better and cheaper version. (allows for double the bandwidth or possibly 4 times the bandwidth).

make sure you read this post:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5122549&postcount=159

it includes the current status, benchmarks, pics and more!

 

Holy crap Moral!
I was looking for something like that!! Like a DIY external GPU!
Thank you soo much!!
Whats the progress on it so far?

 

the people @ HWtools have gotten this to work with several notebooks.
I think they even managed a 2x link.

one user on this forum had used the product to connect a sound card for surround sound (5.1 I think).

you can buy the PE4L now and it should work.

but I would wait for the PE4H engineering sample released on Sep/11.
I believe it comes with onboard voltage regulation and some other nice features. it's really worth the $50 and the wait.

 

That $50 isn't going to include the graphics card, is it?
So I assume that with this, we just connect to our PC and just turn the thing on?
No need for special drivers?

I have a 128 mb graphics card running on a 2.2 core 2 duo processor with 2 gb of ram on a 64 bit processor.
I really think something like that will boost up my gaming experience

So I guess we can just buy it from HWtools.com?

 

oh, we just get pieces from hwtools and put the thing together ourselves, huh?
that's even better!
A few of my friends and I will get together and start working on this.

 

yes you dont need special drivers, just plug it in and install your video card driver.

make sure you're using xp or win7, it doesn't work with vista.
also you need to power the thing with either a PSU from a desktop or just a normal power brick (like the one from your notebook if you have a spare one).

 

ah. Thats great!
My friend's wont be able to wait when I tell them about this!
Also, will there be a step by step instruction list on how to build it? I searched the original thread but wasn't able to find anything in terms of a step by step dummy guide on putting it together.

 

I believe a wiki will be written up.

I can also give you step by step instructions if you want

 

That'd be greatly helpful!
I'll add some more rep to you, but I don't think I can give you more rep unless I spend it elsewhere.

 

lol, dont' give me more rep (I got too much from the DIY vidock thread already).