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    Clevo N150RF external gpu

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by greengom, Mar 16, 2016.

  1. greengom

    greengom Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I bought a clevo N150RF and was wondering if a external gpu is possible.
    http://www.clevo.com.tw/clevo_prodetail.asp?id=901&lang=en
    The adapters that I know of are:
    NGFF: http://www.banggood.com/NGFF-Versio...al-Independent-Video-Card-Dock-p-1009978.html
    Mini PCI-E: http://www.banggood.com/Mini-PCI-E-...al-Independent-Video-Card-Dock-p-1011222.html

    I'm not sure which one would be compatible with my laptop. My laptop has 3 M.2 slots which can also be found on the clevo site. One is used by the wireless card.

    Slots
    • Three M.2 card slots
    -1st for WLAN Combo M.2 2230 Card with PCIe and USB interface (A key)
    -2nd for SSD M.2 2280 Card with SATA / PCIe Gen3 x4 interface (M key)
    -3rd (Factory option) for LTE or UMTS/HSPA+ M.2 3042 Card with USB
    interface (B key)

    Besides this is was wondering where I could get a spare bottom as it would need to be modded te make a cable enter the bottom. I bought the laptop from laptopplus.nl which I believe buys it from pcspecialist.co.uk. I have't yet asked them since I'm not even sure if it is possible.
     
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  2. greengom

    greengom Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just googled a bit and I believe the slots I have are NGFF. I'm not sure though if they are compatible and fast enough (high enough bandwith) for an external gpu.
     
    greengom, Mar 16, 2016
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  3. Galm

    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    Pretty sure you need a thunderbolt 3 port for an egpu, there are exceptions but your laptop doesn't seem to have anything that would work.
     
    Galm, Mar 16, 2016
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  4. Meaker@Sager

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    There are some hacks you can do with a 1x PCI-E 2.0 lane connection but they are not really ideal.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 16, 2016
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  5. Galm

    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    That's some pretty low bandwidth at that point also, may be a problem.
     
    Galm, Mar 16, 2016
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    NGFF slot is your best bet. PCIE3.0 x4 should be enough bandwidth to run a GPU (same as TB3 really). All assuming you can deal with it not being easily pluggable it should work. I'd be interested if you can get frame-buffer copying/Optimus to function using new drivers.
     
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  7. Meaker@Sager

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    I agree, along with hot plug support the driver options are improving.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Mar 17, 2016
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