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External GPU help?
First of all, I have an Acer Aspire v 17 Nitro laptop.
Intel i7-4720 2.6 ghz
GTX 960M 4GB
16 GB RAM
I can run most games fairly well but I think it needs a boost in the gpu. I have a AMD R9 280x from my brothers computer that I want to hook up externally. My question- is it possible to use both of them at the same time? Or would it be better to just use the r9 280x alone? Either way, what are the steps I would need to take to accomplish this?
3 Answers
- DavidLv 75 years agoFavorite Answer
You won't be able to use both
You can get laptop external GPU adapters such as this
You would also need another power source to power the GPU as well so the whole thing gets a bit clunky. However if you are desparate it provides a solution
- ?Lv 75 years ago
Pretty sure this isn't going to work at all...
Video cards hook up to PCI express 16 slots, if this laptop somehow has one of those slots, you'd only be able to connect one card to it. But most laptops are going to have their graphics chip built in, so you can't remove it.
Then your other problem, is you'd need a 6 pin power connector to hook up to this card, which your laptop won't have.
And finally, if you did somehow rewire the laptop for this to work, you'd have to hook it up to an eternal monitor. At that point you might as well have built your own desktop.
The only way you can use two GPUs at the same time is called Crossfire or SLI. It requires two cards of the same model. Then a crazy big power supply to run them.
