eGPU for ASUS for K53SD?

Hello forum,

I Have an asus laptop, with a rusty geforce 610m inside, which barely fits my current requirements. I'm starting live media playback related company, with this machine (the cpu is still decent), but I'm flurting with an nvidia quadro k4000 gpu card, as an extension of my laptops performance, but according to th videos I've seen so far, useing an egpu is almost like gambling. Its hard to tell if the gpu is not "white listed" (im not sure about this meaning) by the laptops manufacturer or if it will work without making a bottleneck in the dataflow, thus losing 50% of the cards performance.
I want to ask if anybody knows what specs determine if this laptop can be extended? Or can Quadros be egpus? Is there a useable and good egpu for this laptop?
If someone knows a good article about the topic in hand, its very welcome as well!

thank you
Peter

 

This notebook is not upgradeable in any meaningful way past swapping in an SSD, maxing out the RAM and loading Windows 10 on it.

For a role in a 'live media playback related' company, it is just not capable enough, imo.

Time to look for and start saving for a better and newer platform instead.

 

Starting a company? Invest in new hardware (with a warranty).

 

Agreed... new hardware with warranty

 

I do not believe it possible to attach an eGPU cage on that particular laptop as it have no thunderbolt ports nor any eGPU docks.

Especially since you are looking at professional solutions, I would recommend just buying a machine with the appropriate professional hardwares.

 

Agree. Buy a new laptop.

eGPUs are not really viable end-user solutions. They aren't as simple as just buy the right hardware, load the right drivers, and everything magically works. You need to very specifically pick out the right hardware and revision (even down to the BIOS version level). You need to run modified / hacked drivers. You need to make sure that your laptop even supports eGPUs (yours does not). And even with all of that, you still won't have a great solution. eGPUs are going to be bottlenecked by the laptop CPU, and by the eGPU interface. And on top of all of that, an eGPU can only output to an external monitor.

eGPUs are also a very expensive project. It is literally cheaper and easier to build a separate desktop computer, and buy a separate laptop, than it is to try and run an eGPU. There isnt' really a practical reason to go with an eGPU, unless you are a tinkerer and have disposable income to play with unsupported hardware.