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01-08-2019 09:09 AM - edited 01-08-2019 09:22 AM
Can i add an external egpu card by replacing my wifi card.... how to do it if its possible
01-08-2019 10:01 AM
Generally nobody is in a hurry to provide a negative answer as we all work for Solutions and Kudos here and usually you don't get one of those for breaking the bad news. You will find eGPUs that can plug into a mini-pcie wireless card interface. Your wifi card however is an M.2 interface. Harder to find an eGPU that plugs into the type of interface you have. And even if you could its not a matter of putting some kind of video card in that slot, closing it back up and running from that card onto the laptop screen. The eGPU dongle would connect externally to an eGPU dock holding a desktop type video card, and a desktop power supply all connected to an external monitor. In other words a big clunky mess of hardware that would need to work with the bottom cover of the laptop removed exposing everything to dust and bumps and disrupting the highly engineered cooling system of the laptop. So basically its a nice idea but doomed to fail in the execution.
01-08-2019 11:55 AM
Sorry to say there really isn't any. Its not a given that there is an eGPU for every laptop. There is a dead zone between the older laptops that had Expresscard slots and ones that had mini-pcie slots and then the very newest ones that have Thunderbolt type USB-C ports. Yours is in that dead zone where there is just no good eGPU option.