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06-26-2016 02:02 PM
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06-26-2016 02:22 PM
No it is hard to say to folks but laptop video is a fixed thing. The chip is soldered to the board. No way to remove and upgrade it. External video is common now but I assume you want something that will run games better. External video on your generation of hardware is done through the USB 3.0 port. All it does is allow extended desktop monitors to have multiple external displays. It still runs off the same video card and USB 3.0 restricts the bandwidth a little so not good for games; more for powerpoints and watching stock tickers.
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06-26-2016 02:22 PM
No it is hard to say to folks but laptop video is a fixed thing. The chip is soldered to the board. No way to remove and upgrade it. External video is common now but I assume you want something that will run games better. External video on your generation of hardware is done through the USB 3.0 port. All it does is allow extended desktop monitors to have multiple external displays. It still runs off the same video card and USB 3.0 restricts the bandwidth a little so not good for games; more for powerpoints and watching stock tickers.
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06-26-2016 02:28 PM
While I was looking up info on external video adapters, Huffer already responded to you ...
But, what I was able to find was an adapter that allowed you to hook an Nvidia GAMING card to your laptop. That's the good news. The bad news is that it cost $300, and that's without the $200 more for the Nvidia card.
So, you'd be spending $500 to run games on your laptop -- IF it worked!
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06-26-2016 02:34 PM - edited 06-26-2016 02:34 PM
Yes IF....you have to examine closely how that thing works and ponder how you would connect it and then think about the fact that it connects to the wireless slot which is a 1x pci-e trying to carry the same data as a pci-e 16x slot usually carries. I strongly discourage those eGPUs although to be fair we did have one OP say he got one working on a recent HP laptop.
06-26-2016 02:51 PM - edited 06-26-2016 02:53 PM
Take a look at this one:
$1200 for the model with a 256 SSD and 8 gigs RAM And the 4 gb nVidia 950M