DIY eGPU experiences

[Max399]

Ok, my experience with ViDock
This is the link to the Futuremark website for the test: -link- (4934 3DMarks)
And the resident evil test gave me average of 26.4FPS.
The PC is a HP Pavilion DV9690en (Upgraded from 2GB RAM to 3GB)
No setup script was used, just hotplugged.
Also, the chipset is ICH8M.

Thanks nando4 and other for the wonderfull info here in this thread.

P.S: Create some sort of webiste to post all the news and info/instructions, cause its really hard to track a forum for news

[xstrike]

lspci and the GUI report both GPU's within the GTX 295, 10de:05eb and 10de:062a. Not sure if there is a separate syntax to allocate both simultaneously.

Attempted to allocate each vid:vid separately, getting the same PCI error via DOS prompt.

For the curious, when I boot into Win7 with the card plugged in, and powered on, prior to booting the laptop, the 9700M GTS shows up as disabled due to "Code 12 Not Enough Resources." The GTX 295 does not show up in Device Manager, but is seen via Everest. The laptop LCD works despite this, @ 800 x 600 max, which allowed me to check Everest and Device Manager.

Thanks nando4 for the continued support and tips. Even if this never works, this proof of concept was an interesting experience.

[Max399]

Little question: My friends got a Samsung R something laptop, but with a fried GPU (BIOS gives signals on turn-on), is it possible that you could launch it with a ViDock?

[jamesbond007]

it might be possible. I could launch my laptop with the vidock as that was my work around when i had the resource allocation problem but for it to work the gpu can not be detected by the laptop. In my case i had an mxm card so i just disable the pin that was sending the PRSNT#1 to the motherboard. Do note that this method disables the lcd screen on the laptop so you have to use the external screen.

[junusa]

can anyone tell me how to do the grub4dos thing when u install the diyvidock setup? I have no idea and I don't want to throw away gtx460 with all kits
I have win7
help sos ㅠㅠ

[RayBlue]

Hi all,

this is my first post here. First I want to thank moralhazard and nando for the great help with pll-pinmod and typhoonburner SPD-flash guidance of other threads.

Now I stuck with my diy-vidock. I read this thread since 08/2009 and e totally with you. But I'm unlucky with the board diagramm of the Quantas 31ZY8MB0000. It shows the ICH9M configured...
pci-x1 = firewire + cardreader
pci-x2 = free expresscard slot
pci-x3 = wired RJ45 lan
pci-x4 = mpcie1 wlan
pci-x5 = systembus (esata, bluetooth...)
pci-x6 = mpcie2 tv-tuner

So I have no chance to link two ports.
Maybe it's interested for same owners?!?!

Bye +the show must go on
Tom

[Xenitic]

I'm playing with the thought of getting me a nice new office notebook and using the vidock 4plus for some heavy gaming.
To get the most out of the graphicscard I'd need to get a laptop which obivously supports the bandwidth, only possible solution here would be to wait a few more months till laptops with PCI 16x / PCI3.0 are available, right?


Is it possible to just connect a TV card over USB and get around the issue of having to connect an external display? As in, let the laptop display run over the integrated card, and have the 2nd desktop/display as a 2nd monitor which you can see via the TV card application.

[jamesbond007]

@Xenitic a quote from the first page "Not feasible with USB 2.0 systems. The notebook's LCD display uses a LVDS input on your systemboard with no external jack to connect to it. The desktop video card outputs HDMI/S-Video. To try to "clone" the output from the desktop video card via a USB frame grabber is feasible, but consider say 1280x800x32-bit = 4MB per image. If gaming at 30FPS that's 120MB/s bandwidth required. USB 2.0 is 480Mbps (60MB/s in *best case* scenario.. more like 30MB/s in real-life)."

[ualwayslose]

Hey guys, been a while.

Anyways I upgraded from 8800GT to GTX 460, some good improvement.

I redid the DMC4 benchmark with dx10, here are results.


Got A rank, though one thing I will say about my card, on the website it is listed as 3600 Memory speed, but on GPUZ it reported at 900 Mhz, and on nvidia Monitor it is listed at 1800. On Tune settings in controll panel, under default clock it is listed as 1800 MHz as well. I might contact Zotac to see what is up with that.

Anyways yea all other games run good, SC2 runs fine, AC2 runes better, Bad Company 2 also runs well Dx10 now.

[tvdang7]

Hey guys, been a while.

Anyways I upgraded from 8800GT to GTX 460, some good improvement.

I redid the DMC4 benchmark with dx10, here are results.


Got A rank, though one thing I will say about my card, on the website it is listed as 3600 Memory speed, but on GPUZ it reported at 900 Mhz, and on nvidia Monitor it is listed at 1800. On Tune settings in controll panel, under default clock it is listed as 1800 MHz as well. I might contact Zotac to see what is up with that.

Anyways yea all other games run good, SC2 runs fine, AC2 runes better, Bad Company 2 also runs well Dx10 now.

ram is 900 but gddr5 is x4 the speed = 3600