How to put a GPU inside laptop: *1. Put a GPU **_outside laptop_* Edit: lol it has 3.9k likes and yt did not say a thing about it. I often make comment and never look back at it again but this time i did and it has likes..? So that means i might even have more comments that have lots of likes but i dont even know. *Conclusion: youtube is stupid*
Leave back cover of the laptop out then build an enclosure attachment of about 5 inches deep and cover the laptop's bottom with that and install a carrying handle in the middle of the top center area of the laptop to be able to carry it around when the laptop is closed. You will have the world's modern bulkiest laptop but at least the GPU would be internal.
@@Feelrightathome get a t430 seriously upgrade the cpu to i7 3610qm, 16gb ram add ssd and hdd uses express card/slot (4gbps bandwith instead of thunderbolt 3 32gbps) and put a rx 580 total £300 tell me how it goes
Depends though. If you want something that can be beefy like a desktop but still move with you, as well as being cost efficient giving you more room in a budget for better upgrades, then i highgly recommend taking an old laptop and upgrading it. If you want to use a bigger monitor just use a HDMI (If your laptop isnt too old to not have one) I was considering building a PC from scratch but it would have been around £600 and knowing i can upgrade my already good laptop for cheaper and get the same gaming capabilities out of it is a no brainer. Good thing about this is you can easily remove the upgrades to move into a PC build. Easy!
@@jeff-hd9og Well that is still technically 10+. But you are always welcome to throw one in my direction, the GTX 960 that I have in my pc is dying and you would still have 9999 left
And thunderbolt still has bottleneck. Not until Thunderbolt 5 becomes as mainstream as Thunderbolt 3 will we finally get meaningful eGPU support. So, dont expect it until 2028.
The problem is, most people who want to run an external graphics card on a laptop on the cheap have a really cheap laptop too. That means no NVMe, and usually the highest-bandwidth port you'll find is USB 3.0. So a solution like this, while fascinating, only serves a very specific niche of people who somehow spent a decent chunk of change without getting a dedicated card internally.
asmcint I use an eGPU because I want an ultra portable laptop, but also don't want to spend more money+room on a desktop, as well as having to deal with two systems.
Mini-PCIe also requires you to open the laptop, which significantly hinders the convenience factor of such a product. And as Linus mentions in the video, most laptops only have one such slot, which is often taken up by some form of networking device, usually WiFi, which most would consider essential.
a lot of laptops have 2 minipci slots, and if they don't: thats why usb dongles exist. opening up your laptop isn't hard, it just takes time and you only have to do it once. this isn't designed for new laptops like the one he tried to use, this is designed for laptops that are 10 years old.
One day, you should take one of those huge old laptops and try what modern hardware (PC Hardware in the best case) you can fit in and then see how it will perform. This would be very interesting to see.
He basically threw in the towel. It's just not feasible for such a big piece of dedicated hardware to be compatible with a laptop. I still think the eGPU enclosure is a viable solution honestly. My laptop has a RTX 2060 and 32GB ram. It's plenty enough for high/ultra 1080p gaming and 4k/multi monitor productivity. But if I wanted to bump up the muscle to run at a higher resolution, then the eGPU would be the ticket, until I built a proper mini tower. The best part is that since you have to buy the gpu for a gaming rig anyways, that's one less thing you have to worry with.
OMG. The GE62 has a sata m.2 slot, not PCI. How I hate this moments when they just plain lie to the people and say that they don't know why it doesn't work.
Linus is faling hard at this stuff. From the CPU benchmarks at 4K ultra settings to stuff as dumb as trying to use a 10 series graphics card as an eGPU (Nvidia crippled the thing via driver updates).
That's what I was thinking... M2 is basically a connector, it can provide PCI Express, SATA... or even USB 3. That's why you always need to check you motherboard doc to know what's behind your M2 port before thinking of plugging something on there.
Why would they ever do that? That way, you'd just buy a new GPU in three years, instead of a whole new laptop. They'd be complete idiots to offer that.
@@Sgtpeterenis just charge an extra 500 bucks for it. Laptop CPUs still go out of date fairly quickly so it's not like people who have the money for a good gaming laptop wouldn't upgrade in the future. Not to mention most people who buy these gaming laptops usually use then till there completely obsolete. So they don't upgrade every year anyway.
@@Sgtpeterenis still need to upgrade cpu and ram which would mean a new system. But I guess that's all slowing down now. I'd rather just put the money for the enclosure and vid card toward a game build.
Dewd! Can't believe that you gave up so easily. RandomGamingInHD connected a regular PCIE 1X external card adapter to a cheap ASUS Celeron based laptop... (It worked, though the results weren't great, as you'll suspect due to the low end Celeron CPU)
I love seeing MSI laptops from the early-mid 10's. I picked one up at the recommendation of my computer guy when I was looking at it and I had no idea how good of a pick up it was until now with decent upgrade options
Yeah, except the quality of their support service who trashed my laptop with damaged case + white powder on screen and keyboard AND stuff that looked like cutted nails. Plus my machine got already overheating shutdown because of a fucking BIOS problem that got patched 2 days later but was enough to fry the internal audio, some parts of the external case, some keyboard keys, wifi + bluetooth module and the keyboard's backlights. Not sure to dish out more money to them after this crap.
I have actually been researching this. The Beast in particular and everything I have seen so far is the biggest graphics card to use is a gtx1060. So with him using a 1080, of course he failed. As much as I like his channels, he is notorious for using top dollar stuff that most of the rest of us can't afford anyway.
Hey Linus, Now you're part of the Framework project, maybe you could ask them to make a pcie external slot extension for those (like me) who would like to have a laptop for work with an egpu for gaming :) Because i'm currently looking to buy a razer core x chroma egpu case conected in thunderbolt to my work laptop station ... but it should be better if it could have a PCIE external slot directly ...
These are sick and work really well, and even come in various varieties including mini PCI-E, M.2, NGFF and Express Slot. However, you can't just expect it to work by shoving any old card into any old slot on any old laptop. Hell, even the type of *monitor* may prevent it from working if it has such tech as Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) or Panel Self Refresh (PSR), and even BIOS settings like Enable Hybrid Graphics. You also may need the software, DIY eGPU Setup 1.35. Do your homework before buying, but it's a sick product for those with a great laptop that's outdated such as a HP ZBook or similar, maybe your parents gave you one, maybe it's your only computer, whatever the case, quad core laptops can game just as well as a full sized desktop with the right know-how, and this route often is *FAR* cheaper than upgrading an MXM-III internal GPU if yours even has one, maybe you have a Quadro like me, but it doesn't matter if you don't have a dGPU at all. This video was awful and half arsed, this product is great for those on a strict gaming budget like high school students, or for those just looking to mess around with something niche.
@@ure2grit931 all he did was basically ocmplain. something tells me he's been payed off by the big boys in the market. it's an obvious solution with more performance than thundebolt 3 egpus minimal little effort but it don't fatten the pockets of the retailers lmao
He make this solution a nightmare so you never think about it for the laptop retaliers companys sake which sponsoring his channel. Sorry for my english im not native speaker.
@@じある I agree. It is basically a paid shill to discredit eGPU, it is so obvious and such a low effort video. At least he could have shown footage of them trying it and we would be like "oh yeah this shit doesn't work, let's move on" but he basically just says "don't do it trust me, it is such a waste of time"
vs them using the titan v for the testing? Notice also, they're all Nvidia brand, and not off stuff like EGA or Gigabyte, which is pretty much what the rest of us have if we have them at all.
AnimeChuck Yeah, they use the founder's edition, which is the term used as far as I can remember, we on the other hand, not me though, have those other brand versions. Nice observation, Sherlock... Yay...
AnimeChuck Might have slightly to do with the fact that Nvidia sponsors them directly. Oh and, "the rest of us" can buy whatever we want. These cards are reference models, or "founders" editions, and are sold just like any other card. "Off stuff". Are you seriously suggesting a reference card is not official?
Today the cheap and painless way is a ADT R43SG (several models) and a mini pc or laptop. the gdc and an older laptop can be difficult. best with new bios, they seem to support it out of the box now
linus isn't the only one to review this. there's many videos about this. I've been wanting one just to have one, but the compatibility is limited. check the list on the website. look for other uploads. linus just confirmed 2 more laptops that wont work. He should have asked his employees and test a bunch of laptops to get a working one, but then again i bet none of his employees wants linus breaking their laptop 🤣🤣
I don’t think he did it right with the v9.0. It is exiting if you get v8.0 instead of 9.0. I had one for 4 months and it worked one for me ALTHOUGH AMD is recommended for a gpu.
That's only handy for laptops with a broken screen or keyboard or trackpad which I doubt LTT have. I also don't see the point of it anyways when you may as well keep the laptop compontnents in the laptop instead to save the time wasted from taking it out
As in the joke belongs to me? "ur" could be "you're" but that would imply that my name is "joke". If you mean "your", then yes, that joke belongs to me. I would love if you could explain more though, potato
this damn combo is what got me into building my own pc gaming i built a t420 up bought the gdc beast and a 1050 ti but at the time it wasnt compatible with the pascal so i gave up got an optiplex and slapped in the 1050ti got the upgrade bug and now have 2 gaming rigs including a custom water loop anyhoo were you able to get the 1050 ti to work with the gdc and did you use the express card way?
Gabriel Molina yes i got everything working. I'm using the express card version of the beast adapter. I'm using ubuntu 18 and it was a pretty simple install. I installed the nvidia 390 driver and tested it with a few games. The reason for the build was to make a cheap setup for deep learning and install tensorflow. I made a couple videos on the build over on my channel
Keep in mind here that linus here is using the M.2 SSD port for the EXP GDC egpu and not the ngff/mini-pcie port that used by the wifi.The exp gdc through the m.2 port is not the common standard while using the exp gdc. Its not recommended. The cable is the most expensive, and the chance of it working is the lowest compared to using the exp gdc through the mini-pcie/ngff slot.
I bought a 8 dollar gpu adapter off ebay and tested it and it works with my hd 5770. Worked on my hp laptop. In heaven benchmark I got about 60 fps on 720p instead of 10 fps
One of these, I presume? www.ebay.com/itm/MINI-PCI-E-TO-X16-PCIE-RISER-ADAPTER-GRAPHICS-CARD-PLUS-TO-LAPTOP/263078482873?hash=item3d40b313b9:g:~h0AAOSwFqNZRWuT
The Astro Gamer I mean you can do it to any laptop but it will most definitely void your warranty and would take so.e wandering and really careful removal
i used this for quite some time with a GTX 2070 on a dell with a 1060 go. gave me a great work laptop with good battery life and a desktop station at home with my vr setup
If you could make a 'breakaway' M.2 cable always connected internally, but disconnectable in maybe the optical drive slot (taped to keep in place); to be able to reconnect much quicker and conveniently each time you're ready to game.
I have no idea why he struggled so much.. It took me 3 minutes to set up on my MSI laptop.. No bios updates, no nothing .. Flawless startup and games worked straight up.. I went the pcie route not the nvme though ..
Using same minipcie to usb3 to pciex16 method. Only problem i found is gtx 10 series cards wouldnt even let me post into bios. Didnt have a decent gtx 9xx card so now im using a hd6670 to get a third Monitor
inthemonye , I have the cx61 and I’m running a gtx970, I’ll be moving on up in gpu’s soon as I’ve tested a 1070 (friend has one) and works perfectly aswell..
Crazy times here in late 2021. Love watching these older videos. Crazy how much more powerful the GPU’s are now vs then. Unbelievable. It’s a shame you can’t get a graphics card through a retailer. You have to get it from a scalper.
It's been a while since I've binge watched Linus videos, I'm kind of off and on, I'll start binge-watching him for a month or so, lose interest, then come back to him again in like 2 months, but if I wear asked to pick just one thing I love about this channel, is that you keep your intro plugs around 10 seconds long. While this sounds like an arbitrary thing, it is insanely smart, most phones nowadays allow you to skip 10 seconds if you double tap the right side of your screen really quick, and is what I would assume a lot of us do anytime a sponsor plug is played in a video, we just double tap until we are skipped through it, because we're binge-watching content and want to get to the point, but, most of the time we overshoot or undershoot and have to find where the sponsor plug actually ends, Linus keeping it at 10 seconds on all of his videos means one double tap and we're into the content.
I had an eGPU GTX760 via Express Card and an od HP Elitebook2760p. It worked, was a lot of work but for 3 years this was the only way for me to play with my friends. You need to research a lot before you go buy it. But there are a lot of informations out there how it works, you can ask in the forums anything they are truely awesome people there. And there are even other brands making this adapter ( the one you were using i only heard bad things back when i set everything up). But last week I bought a Asus GL503VM with a GTX1060 and its so f*** awesome xD Only cost 1200€ lol
I'm from the future, during the bearded era of Linus, and the face in this video is a shock. I forgot about this version with the socks and sandals and what not.
I had great success with the smart card variety on my enterprise laptop while I was scrimping to build my PC. I bought my GPU, PSU, and the beast first; played on that for about 6 mo waiting for a bonus at work, then bought the rest and assembled the system. I was out $80 for the beast at the end, but it was worth it to play Arma 3 and Fall Out in the interm. Would recommend as a temporary solution if you research on the forums first to verify compatibility and get lucky that it will all work.
Why did you even assemble a pc when the laptop egpu setup worked? :D How much did the frames go up when the GPU was in the PC? I have a Dell Optiplex 390 PC with a GTX 960 in it and a Dell e6430 that i'm thinking of trying out with a egpu setup.
I’m surprised they never came up with a standard for external pcie connections, similar to esata (i.e. it’s basically the raw slot made external in a suitable way). I know there would be limitations but it may still be suitable for e.g. external gpus.
@@Kuri0 IIRC/AFAIK Thunderbolt still requires a separate controller to PCI-E/cost (depending on the CPU) and from when I last looked at it had limitations/performance loss in comparison to using an actual PCI-E slot. Bearing in mind we’re talking about a post I made a while back, I was likely thinking of something to externalise a full x16 slot with as few limitations/cost as possible, hence my comparison to esata which from my experience is just a physical change.
Yeah this is really intended for older gen laptop which does not have thunderbolt. As exp gdc have few alternatives way to be used, such as the mini Pcie, expresscard and M.2. Most laptop atleast have a wifi card installed on the Pcie slot so you can guarantee it will somewhat work, though you will most likely need ethernet or wifi dongle, I find that it is quite a hassle for newer gen laptop especially with gpu, since you need to “hotswap” the gpu. Still it serve as a good alternative to revive older laptop.
Was literally thinking the same thing. Older laptops are likely to have a NGFF SATA slot and not PCIe. You're actually more likely to succeed with the wifi card slot since it HAS to be PCIe. Edit: Adding on, some BIOS will actually whitelist specific PCI devices too. I have an old Lenovo that I had to have someone patch the BIOS when I wanted to upgrade from an N card to an AC card.
it are to be said that even with the WiFi mostly occupying the mini-PCIe it are easy to offer for the greater good. why? because you mostly can get a ultra tiny USB WiFi that more or less will be faster than what was installed.
it is swap-able .. it's just a cable .. mine has the PCIe and nvme .. the connector in the laptop used dictates speed, the actual beast just goes with whatever is given to it..
Use the force. Actually, you want to use the wifi port instead of the M.2 port. The Beast requires a 4-pin connection. Do not use 20+4 connector, instead use the motherboard 4+4 supply connecter..
You need to install "DIY eGPU Setup 1.35" to be able to use the e-GPU, at least in my case cuz i'm using one right now and i couldn't got it to work too until I installed it and followed the guide. Plus other things to fix countless error that i got to fix with the drivers and to make the gpu visible.
Mark the setup 1.35 wont work on some laptop, i did that to my old dell latitude laptop and it still wont detect the egpu. The bios reject the egpu. It requires some bios mod to get it detect. But some laptops doesnt need that bios mod like my hp 14. Its now works paired with GTX 560
I also tried setup 1.35 on a dell latitude to try and get an egpu working. I struggled for months, and most frustratingly I found a forum post where someone else with the same model laptop and egpu had got it working with no issue and without 1.35 :(
Random Man if i remember correctly to make detect the gpu u had to plug the mini-pci removing the Wi-Fi chip while in hibernation i had to do that, then mod an old driver to make it install for the 1030 (I think this was needed only for the 10 series), after that i still was getting an error on the device that only with the e-gpu setup fixed it. Idk if it works on every laptop since ofc it's different but maybe is still worth a try if everything else fail.
