external graphic card

is there such thing as an external graphic card?? so i can buy a laptop with integrated graphic card to save battery and when i go home i can plug in the external for gamming.

 

nope, usb, expresscard(pci-e), firewire etc are all too slow for this purpose

 

Yes... the Asus XG... but its not out yet to the public.. should be out this year though....

 

lol I checked out that Asus XG, and wow what a weird idea.
$600 for a huge external station and it requires an external monitor,, obviously not something you can carry with you. for that price might as well purchase a desktop for gaming.

 

And another one is the MSI ....... somebody fill in the blank.. i cant remember the name..

 

It's not huge. And it would be quite a nice addition to any laptop with integrated graphics, although I wouldn't recommended it for the highest settings in games past 2003. And why purchase a gaming desktop? Damn you desktop kiddies. (Or are they the desktop people, while we are the laptop kiddies? )

If you get the XG Station, you can hook it up to your notebook, get an external monitor, and turn your notebook into a desktop. Kinda like that Dell XPS "laptop" which folds out in three different ways.

 

Double post. Sue me.

Here's the MSI Luxium: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/10/msis-luxium-external-graphics-solution-spotted/

 

itll still only be useful for old games, unfortunately.

 

Aye. But ATI's Lasso is doing something else: dual USB2.0 ports. Not sure how effective it'll be, seing as mass transfer of USB isn't that reliable. Woulda been better if it was 1xExpressCard, 2xUSB2.0 and 1xFireWire. That would be a lot faster than some crappy ExpressCard connector.

 

yeah there should definitely be an external gpu that plugs into the expresscard 34, 1 usb port, 1 firewire 400, AND one firewire 800. also it should plug in to the ethernet port. that would not be hideous at all. oh yeah it should also plug into bluetooth 2.0 and 802.11n wirelessly.

would that give it enough close to enough bandwidth?

 

well if you are going to drop $600 for the XG station and buy an external monitor, might as well use that $600 and buy a desktop. You'll end up with much better gaming performance. my Athlon X2 4400+, and 8600GT desktop only cost me a little over $300.

 

actually no,
a PCI-E x16 have a 8gb/second transfer rate I believe.

with an expresscard you are looking at 500MB/s, USB 2.0 at 60MB/s maximum, and etc etc,

probalby wouldn't even add up to 1GB/s

 

Where did you manage to find that price?

 

fifafreak18: self-built computers. www.tigerdirect.com, www.newegg.com, www.zipzoomfly.com, etc.

On connections: don't foget that you need to connect three other systems together as one, all connected through a wireless LAN 802.11n connection, so they're super fast. Then hook up one monitor to the computer, and then buy a super-computer. With that supercomputer you generate an electromagnetic field strong enough to provide a high amount of bandwidth so that you can use an external graphics card.

And thats how you use external graphics.

Or you could build a desktop.

 

was a Dell Inspiron 531 actually. was 580(including tax) for that computer and a 22 inch monitor. I don't plan on keeping the monitor, so the computer it self will cost me around $300.