Lenovo Thinkpad T420 + Pe4l 2.1b/c = Success!

[stevenplanet]

Hi there! I'm here to preach the good news that my setup, comprised of the Lenovo Thinkpad T420 4177, Corsair CX430 PSU, PE4L 2.1b/c, and Nvidia GTX 560 TI are together working famously. I am able to play games that my good ol' Thinkpad could never have surmounted before! Whilst playing some of my favorite graphic intense games I ran tests and wrote them down in a handy dandy notebook, which I will happily transcribe for you guys here:

ALL GAMES AT MAX RESOLUTION(for my monitor () 1440x900.
Battlefield Bad Company 2: ALL HIGH AA ON: 45-100 FPS
Battlefield 3: ULTRA (AUTO): 22 - 60 FPS. (Usually is around 40-45 though, depends on the scenery, but still very playable.)
Portal 2:HIGH 60 FPS (I guess I left VSYNC on haha)
Fallout New Vegas: Max Settings 100+ FPS <-Was very surprised hahaha.
Diablo III: High 50-70 FPS

The card also maxed my Windows Graphics Score. It is now the highest score in my system.

Spoiler :

Here are some more pictures of what I did with my setup, making handy a used USPS box.... hehe

[chx1975]

Where did you get a 2.1b / c ? PE4L ( PCIe Adapter ver2.1 ) this reads like A to me but absolutely not sure. Also, you installed the video card upside down ? Good idea.

[stevenplanet]

Where did you get a 2.1b / c ? PE4L ( PCIe Adapter ver2.1 ) this reads like A to me but absolutely not sure. Also, you installed the video card upside down ? Good idea.

Well actually I had to, or else the fan would blow into the cardboard -_-.
The website really needs to be updated. That is the link I ordered from, I assure you they ship you the 2.1b. They just forgot to update it haha.

[jaug1337]

Very nice dude!! love your enclosure good job

[chx1975]

Isn't it inconvenient to insert/remove the ExpressCard every time you get back to your desktop? I guess depends how often...

[feverlax]

I thought the adapter was only PCIE X1 so how'd you get an X16 card into it?

[AATroop]

They still fit. It just doesn't have nearly the bandwidth x16 has.

[alternal]

ALL GAMES AT MAX RESOLUTION(for my monitor () 1440x900.

Can you desribe all the steps you did to get it work?
Have you been using eGPU Setup 1x?
can you post a Gpu-z screenshot of your eGPU?

[aaurnab]

me too. ordered from eBay German, only 10 days to shipped to me in Babgnaldesh

. now i am designing the case to give spaces of this parts... it's really awesome.

it will be fine if you show how to connect each other in the diferent view.