 El QuintronResident Mouth BreatherPremium
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Re: [Parts Check] Has anyone heard of ViDock? said by sk1939:It connects via Expresscard for a PCI-e x1 connection, so don't expect to shoehorn in a GTX680 and game on your laptop.
What size of card could one reasonnably expect to get on PCIe 1x?
My laptop has a built in GT540M already, could I get something better with this?
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kudos:9 | Not really, the cards that generally work in the constraints of an x1 slot are the GT 610 and HD 6450 which are both slower than what you have (and slower than the integrated graphics on a first generation i3). |
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El QuintronResident Mouth BreatherPremium
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kudos:2 | So even the vidock4+ would be a bit of a writeoff?
That's too bad because this would be a great idea, probably much better when Thunderbolt hits the market.
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| Yep, because you are still limited to the Expresscard x1 interface, which depending on the age of your PC (assuming it even has Expresscard, many do not) is either 1GB/s or 5GB/s depending on the revision (Expresscard 1.0 vs 2.0).
Thunderbolt would be better because you could use the full x8 capacity assuming you had no other devices down the chain. |
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