DIY eGPU experiences

[blizzard2012]

Hi Nando,

Im currently using this PSU: GIGABYTE - PC Components - Power Supply - ODIN Pro series - ODIN Pro 550W

Looks like a 12V/18A.

Will try the MIS afterburner, any ideal range of values that i can follow ?
Or a random range will do.

Thanks

Hi Nando,

Any idea on the above ?
Though bsod isnt as frequent but i still get it once in awhile.

Thanks

[bjorm]

Hello, i just run a benchmark with 3dmark06 and i get 17334 score.
I don't know if it's a good score regarding my conf and it was displaying on my internal screen.

they are rather ok. You may also post your GPU-Z printscreen.

[Fabi3n]

Hello everybody, here is a complete report of my experience with eGPU.
First of all, please PM me to correct my faults because I'm not Shakespeare and my English is bad (if I knew, i would listen my teacher at school few years ago ).

So you can see my setup in my signature but i make a short describe here :
Dell latitude e6520 with Intel Core i7 2760M, 4Go RAM ddr3 an iGPU + dGPU nvs4200 based on Windows 7® ultimate 64bits

The dGPU was my biggest problem because i would like an "out of the box" installation, but DIY Setup1.x can deactivate it.

Here is the procedure :

• Notebook off, power on the eGPU and plug the EC in slot.
• Power on the notebook and launch setup1.x to deactive the dGPU and chainload windows
• Wait for your system boot up and install nvidia verde drivers + modded nvam.inf
• Restart the computer (go to diy setup and use startup.bat or deactivate dGPU manualy) with the eGPU powered and plugged.
• Enjoy your x1.2opt installation !

I ran a benchmark with 3dmark06 and obtain 17334 score

Here are a lot of pics.

GPUZ and AIDA64

Battlefield 3

As you can see, at 1920*1080 fps is low (20) and hard to play like this. At 768p we obtain a good FPS 30 to 40 and it's playable without any problem with details on "high".

I think that 4Go ram more, will be good to play in full HD resolution.

I will test lot of bench and test later with an external display.

Here are pics of my test installation. I'm waiting for a good enclosure project.

[LoneNF]

Hello everybody, here is a complete report of my experience with eGPU.
First of all, please PM me to correct my faults because I'm not Shakespeare and my English is bad (if I knew, i would listen my teacher at school few years ago ).

So you can see my setup in my signature but i make a short describe here :
Dell latitude e6520 with Intel Core i7 2760M, 4Go RAM ddr3 an iGPU + dGPU nvs4200 based on Windows 7® ultimate 64bits

The dGPU was my biggest problem because i would like an "out of the box" installation, but DIY Setup1.x can deactivate it.

Here is the procedure :

• Notebook off, power on the eGPU and plug the EC in slot.
• Power on the notebook and launch setup1.x to deactive the dGPU and chainload windows
• Wait for your system boot up and install nvidia verde drivers + modded nvam.inf
• Restart the computer (go to diy setup and use startup.bat or deactivate dGPU manualy) with the eGPU powered and plugged.
• Enjoy your x1.2opt installation !

I ran a benchmark with 3dmark06 and obtain 17334 score



As you can see, at 1920*1080 fps is low (20) and hard to play like this. At 768p we obtain a good FPS 30 to 40 and it's playable without any problem with details on "high".

I think that 4Go ram more, will be good to play in full HD resolution.

I will test lot of bench and test later with an external display.

Here are pics of my test installation. I'm waiting for a good enclosure project.

Congrats At last, it works

[Fabi3n]

Yes thanks !

I will make another post with many notebook model.
I tried today with a toshiba tecra r850 and it works great ! OOTB !

[SimoxTav]

Yes thanks !

I will make another post with many notebook model.
I tried today with a toshiba tecra r850 and it works great ! OOTB !

Awesome! I'm glad you finally made it

[Fabi3n]

Thanks
i'll try with toshiba s11 and lenovo l510 in few weeks

[MikjoA]

Hi all

I've finally managed to run my eGPU setup successfully with my sony Z2
I followed Nando's advices & hints and my eGPU was finally detected! Thank you!

I've made just one benchmark so far, I'll do more later when I've reinstalled my system (it crashed a lot when I tried to make the eGPU setup working and it is buggy now :/)

Sony vaio VPC-Z21 : core i7 2620M, 8gb DDR3
eGPU setup : PE4H 2.4a + PM3N 1.2 + 100cm mini HDMI wire + GTX 560 Ti 1gb (384)

Unfortunately I can only test a x1.1opt setup

So here are the result on 3DMark 06

Default setting with an external monitor attached :
18246 3DMarks

SM 2.0 : 8050
HDR/SM 3.0 : 9256
CPU : 3868

[edit]
I've run the bench again with the hwtools 30cm wire and I got better results :

18714 3DMarks

SM 2.0 : 8103
HDR/SM 3.0 : 9828
CPU : 3867

[Fabi3n]

good job !

[Hunter20]

srry for doublepost. see post below...