Hi! just i need a few informations, so... I have a laptop pretty good, but my video card have just 128 MB dedicated maximum and i have some problems with games, is posible to buy anything that helps me for games? something like and external video card ?o.O is this posible? or im just dumb, if its not, pls tell me what can i do without buying other laptop just upgrading it. thanks!

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just google your own title :D
btw, won't be cheap

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What you mean with my own title? sorry im not very good at english im just 17 :(

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That's pretty nice

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The title of your post.

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Thank you guys, i know i had to google it but google has lot of trash, so i tought steamgifts its more save

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External video cards exist, but they are not properly standardised yet. Meaning that on some laptops they will never work, on others they need a specific type of GPU docker, on others more available dockers can be used. Also, you still need a proper desktop video card powered from a wall socket, and an external display (a second monitor), so the whole setup is anything but mobile. With its price point, it is only used when you really don't want to just buy a laptop with a decent dedicated GPU for some reason.

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yeah this is what i was thinking.. even my rog laptop with 960m doesnt accept the proper thunderbolt type needed for such a feature. so i seriously doubt a laptop with only a 128mb gpu will.

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What are the specs of your laptop?

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in other words, it would be cheaper to buy a new laptop

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Razer core? XD

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Honestly: forget the entire idea for now.
External videocards on a laptop right now is definitely not a good idea.
The industry has not properly embraced the idea yet leading to only a few options which are overpriced and often barely-compatible.

Maybe in a couple of years, maybe not.

For now: new laptop or get a desktop where you can actually change the graphics card quite easily.

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Just get a desktop or a "Gaming Laptop"

Honestly just buy/build a desktop "Gaming Laptops" don't work at all they only work when they are plugged in because the battery doesn't give enough power to the actual CPU and GPU which results in unplayable framerates (10-30) in most games that are a little bit heavy.

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It's not a problem of giving power to the CPU - lithium batteries are powerful enough to do that already. Your problem is cooling. Laptop GPUs are limited in thermal output because they'd overheat otherwise. Node size reduction from 28 to 16/14nm has significantly increased performance per watt, and Pascal mobile GPUs are actually efficient enough to give about 90% of the performance of their desktop counterparts, though they'll still be expensive for a while due to AMD not competing in the mobile GPU market.

a 960M is at 750 Ti levels(and in fact, it's essentially a 750 Ti with slightly different clocks), and the 1060 absolutely destroys it, outperforms a 980M and manages to trade blows with a mobile 980. The cheapest laptop i can find with one which doesn't have other components that bottleneck the snot out of it is at a $1500 price tag (though i admittedly didn't look very extensively).

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People just don't use graphics cards with just 128 MB of VRAM (unless it's some IGP using shared memory). I'd advise against getting an external graphics card adapter because the rest of the laptop is likely to bottleneck it due to factors such as reduced memory bandwith(mini-PCIe is limited to 4 lanes instead of 16), a laptop CPU is usually wattage limited to anywhere between 4~45W (whereas desktop CPUs can use 65~90W), and you're likely going to have difficulties using the laptop's built-in display.

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Here is a whole forum for external GPU enthusiast community if you want to do some research on building your own :)
http://forum.notebookreview.com/forums/e-gpu-external-graphics-discussion.1103/

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I don't have issues like this I have a desktop yay but I also can't go anywhere and as a result spend most of my life inside :(

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Thank you guys so much with your help! i get an ideea, and i think im gonna save money for new pc thanks a lot!
Have a good day
Im gonna close discussion

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It may be possible to add a media accelerator (internally) to a laptop so it can play HD video if it's not normally capable of it, but in practical terms that probably about it. And that won't help with gaming of course.

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Dont need that but thanks for suggestion ! have a nice day

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Closed 7 years ago by TheRadiscus.