DIY eGPU experiences

[atticus182]

The Lenovo X220 and the Dell Vostro 3000 also have Sandy Bridge CPU and expresscard slot. None have been confirmed to be using EC2.0 though.

Yeah, the dell Vostro 3350 is a great alternative with expresscard 34 (maybe 2.0) for much less $$ than the Dell E6320 or Lenovo X220.

Here is the hands on: Vostro 3350 -- Engadget

I just hope that battery life and buil quality are better than the first generation Vostro 3300.

[deimoss]

Guys, I decided to try DIY ViDock too. Have a Toshiba Satellite A300D-126 with AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core-TL-62 2.1 GHz and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470. 2+1GB RAM. I use winXP, but if necessary will replace it with win 7. Intend to buy ATI Radeon HD 5770. I have a expresscard slot and free Mini PCI Express slot. Want to achieve the best possible performance from this card. Wich set would you advise me to buy? PE4H ver2.4 - EC2C, PE4H ver2.4 - PM3N or something else? Can it be done at all? And will it be enough just a standard 300 - 350 W pc power supply? Thank you in advance for your help! /Forgive me my Google translated English./

[tpro]

Guys, I decided to try DIY ViDock too. Have a Toshiba Satellite A300D-126 with AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core-TL-62 2.1 GHz and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470. 2+1GB RAM. I use winXP, but if necessary will replace it with win 7. Intend to buy ATI Radeon HD 5770. I have a expresscard slot and free Mini PCI Express slot. Want to achieve the best possible performance from this card. Wich set would you advise me to buy? PE4H ver2.4 - EC2C, PE4H ver2.4 - PM3N or something else? Can it be done at all? And will it be enough just a standard 300 - 350 W pc power supply? Thank you in advance for your help! /Forgive me my Google translated English./

First of all, you must give us your info from everest or aida... however before asking a question please return back to othere frequently asked questions... (i know i'm not wo rules these threads, but that's how i help.)

Then tell me your language i can describe it, as translated!


Me too still planning to buy one... but i'm sure what i'm doing...

[itcomic]

What desktop GPU shall I get to get approximately 40% more performance than HD5870m to use in the ViDock ?

Thank you

[atticus182]

What desktop GPU shall I get to get approximately 40% more performance than HD5870m to use in the ViDock ?

Thank you

For now, you can't. The expresscard 1.0 with a gtx460 optimus offer similar performance than a HD5870m.

But when we will see expresscard 2.0 and gtx560 optimus, it will be a huge upgrade!

[acer47ok]

So that pe4l board has a usb input in it....I use it to plug in a usb 4-port hub. And I put my wireless mouse and keyboard in there. So when I plug in my vidock the mouse and keyboard are already connected.....

I was thinking about buying a sony 8gb flash drive enhanced for readyboost on sale for $10 and plugging it in the usb hub as well....would this help make things run even faster?......

Would an actual SSD be better and does a SSD make readyboost useless?

[thendless]

So here are my results after finding the most stable overclock:

SL9300 @ 2.251 GHz + 25% PCI-E @ 1.0 V
gtx460 powered by 203W xbox adapter with x1.opt

Resident evil 5 - 70.9FPS @ 1280x720 External LCD
Resident evil 5 - 17.9FPS @ 1280x800 Internal LCD (this benchmark is really weird... I couldn't figure out why it was performing so badly)
3dmark06 @ Default settings - 1280x800 Internal LCD- 9443
3dmark06 @ Default settings - 1280x720 External LCD 10598

Overall i'm very happy with the internal results. I was surprised to get such a high internal 3dmark06 result for my clock speed considering nando4's @ 2.64GHz was 9607. I noticed the result immediately when I played starcraft with results at around 40-high 50FPS at medium detail with the internal LCD. However I am a little disappointed by my external results, they don't seem much better than my internal results, not as significant as a lot of other benchmarks i've seen here including nando4's. Are there any settings I could be missing that could have affected performance? To be honest though, external doesn't matter much to me, this was intended purely for internal play so I am pretty satisfied with the results.

Nando4, is it possible to overclock the pci-e bus beyond 25%? I would be interested in trying this to see if there would be further performance benefits.

[Lord_Epithis]

Hey people, first post here

Anyhow, so I made the vidock according to instructions and it worked out great! However, when I play my desired game (DoW2) for more than an hour, my monitor goes off and tells me their is no signal. I do a cold reboot for it but nothing works. So my question is that is it the monitor's problem that it goes out or is it my vidock set up?

I'm using an Galaxy GTX 460 1024 powered by an Athena Tech Apollo power supply of 350 watts. The monitor I am using is an acer 22 inch. 1680 x 1050.

Any help will do. Thanks!

[Jack]

Is it overheating?

[Lord_Epithis]

the power supply feels really warm. I do have a 500 watt in my closet. Would that be better?