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Is there such a thing? :confused1:
External graphics cards?
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I beg to differ but it wont help much like Jubei said.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7409.ars
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/28/ati-to-release-power-hungry-external-video-card/
many more from the great site Google which I recommend. As you can see many of those pages are dated from 2006 and its 2009 which means they didn't catch on.
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7409.ars
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/28/ati-to-release-power-hungry-external-video-card/
many more from the great site Google which I recommend. As you can see many of those pages are dated from 2006 and its 2009 which means they didn't catch on.
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hmmm i dont remember where but there are some for gaming use. ATI has some 4 series ones which i heard work wonders compared to the notebook GPU. I just forgot where i saw them being sold.
Edit: ahhh i found it, i remember i was looking at computer builds on Xoticpc.com and when you customize a laptop, they have the option of buying an external graphics card, its made by vidock2 and the one they have is like a 4670 but it says its upgradeable so im guessing you could put something even faster in it. The thing seems expensive though, its a $300 add-on to the laptop build price.
http://www.powernotebooks.com/product.php?itemId=2893
From reading this, it seems that you can buy a blank Vidock2 and put an ati radeon card in it. I would reccomend this because the vidock2 with the 4670 is expensive and the performance isnt worth it. But if the blank vidock2 is just as expensive, then i would just get it with the GPU.
It seems like a really really good invsetment though if you only use a laptop. They say that it will be able to support all the future cards also so its pretty much futureproof.
Edit: ahhh i found it, i remember i was looking at computer builds on Xoticpc.com and when you customize a laptop, they have the option of buying an external graphics card, its made by vidock2 and the one they have is like a 4670 but it says its upgradeable so im guessing you could put something even faster in it. The thing seems expensive though, its a $300 add-on to the laptop build price.
http://www.powernotebooks.com/product.php?itemId=2893
From reading this, it seems that you can buy a blank Vidock2 and put an ati radeon card in it. I would reccomend this because the vidock2 with the 4670 is expensive and the performance isnt worth it. But if the blank vidock2 is just as expensive, then i would just get it with the GPU.
It seems like a really really good invsetment though if you only use a laptop. They say that it will be able to support all the future cards also so its pretty much futureproof.
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where can i get the ATI/AMD ones? cause i could use it for my Laptop.
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I made a thread about the Vidock2, there is a lot more information on it about the external GPU and performance benchmarks and such. I also have some links there which sell this Vidock2 as well as information on upcoming Vidock's. The link i posted here also sells the vidock2 at $380
