Help installing eGPU

BambusBo

Hello everyone, you may not have seen me in a while, as I've been doing other things. Now i come to ask for your help Smile

See, i have my laptop in which i would like to install a External gpu using a expressslot.
I am not even sure if my pc has an expressslot, so i would appreciate if you could help me.

I suspect this thing for being an expresslot
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If it is something i can connect an egpu to, will it bottleneck a gtx 770?

Nuka

Your specs would help.

BambusBo

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ***** PC
System Manufacturer Alienware
System Model M17xR4
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel ® Core ™ i7-3610QM [email protected], 2301 Mhz, 4 Core (s), 8 Logical (e) processor (s)
BIOS-version/dato Alienware A12, 17-05-2013
SMBIOS version 2.7
Windows folder C: \ Windows
System folder C: \ Windows \ system32
Boot Device \ Device \ HarddiskVolume4
Locale Denmark
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"
Username ******
Timezone Rome, summer
RAM 8.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 7.88 GB
Available Physical Memory 4.25 GB
Total Virtual Memory 15.8 GB
Available Virtual Memory 10.6 GB
Space for paging 7.88 GB
File C: \ pagefile.sys

Nuka

Thanks. anyway, i have no experience with eGPUs but i'd imagine they use a smaller PCIe slot, and that slot picture is way different than a PCIe slot. Is there any rectangular ports on your PC?

BambusBo

No, that is the only port i dont know what is

I've heard something about "Thunderbolt" What is it? And how?

Nuka

Actually... That slot does look like a Thunderbolt drive. Best off taking your laptop down to wherever sells them and having a look, or buy it, test it, and return it

yarrrs

This should go in tech center.
And I am not familiar with "eGPU's."

BambusBo

So, thunderbolt port > some adapter? (Link one if you know any that could work) > Gtx 770

Nuka

Yes, but they're very expensive, and come in their own very heavy boxes with PSUs.

Rahiro

Aloha ,

I made some research for you
And basically Nuka said it already:

The slot you circled is a thunderbolt slot which would offer the possibility to support eGPU but adapter for thunderbolt are very expensive:
On a different forum someone had a problem deciding which of the following two kits he should take. I am just sharing
this to let you know about how much money we are talking here:

nop Wrote:Expensive Version:

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ViDock 4 Plus Overdrive $279 + $30 http://www.villageinstruments.com/tiki-index.php?page=ViDock Sonnet Echo Pro £146.34 + £5.13 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sonnet-Echo-ExpressCard-Thunderbolt-Adapter/dp/B0080MQJJ6/ref=sr_ob_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1373971018&sr=1-3 Apple Thunderbolt Cable £38.95 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-Thunderbolt-cable-mini-DisplayPort-mini-Dis/dp/B0058KHRPS/ref=pd_bxgy_computers_text_y Total 600 USD Total 450 EUR Total 390 GBP

Cheap version

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P4EL $60 + $21 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=171077040229&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en Sonnet Echo Pro £146.34 + £5.13 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sonnet-Echo-ExpressCard-Thunderbolt-Adapter/dp/B0080MQJJ6/ref=sr_ob_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1373971018&sr=1-3 Cheap Thunderbolt Cable £11.36 + £5.03 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Startech-Male-Mini-DisplayPort-Cable/dp/B006LL56J2/ref=sr_1_73?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1374870440&sr=1-73 Total 339 USD Total 255 EUR Total 220 GBP

More help can be found here! This discussion is all about eGPUs, maybe its worth reading it.
I hope you might find a better solution than using eGPUs,
-Crowh