• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

External Graphics Card

Im still suprised there are none of these on the market. How hard really could it be to extend the PCI 4x/8x/16x slot by connecting a cable to it, and then connecting the other end to a plug in bay for the graphic card.
Yes there would be some performance loss due to the increased latency, but even so It would be a huge boost over some low end integrated/64/128Mb notebook graphic card.
 
Precisely, however, there still seems to no market here at the moment. I reckon if someone could fill this gap with a range of external gpu's, then it could be quite profitable.
I mean, they may external hard drives, dvd drives etc, so why not gpu?! I mean it doesnt have to be a full media station like Asus came up with, but a plain and simple external card!
I know a fair few people who would be interested in the idea!
 
ArtificialFoxx said:
USB 2.0 Speed: 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s)
PCI-e 2.0 16x Speed: 8 GB/s (500MB/s per lane)
ExpressCard slot Speed: 2.5 Gbit/s (320MB/s)

So even a 1x PCI-e slot is about 8 times faster than USB 2.0 and a little faster than ExpressCard.
Click to expand...
Yeah but still pretty useless when it comes to video
 
I swear there was something I saw that was express card and usb together (for nearly 3 GB/s). But that was like a year ago...
EDIT: Yeah it was the XG Station, best model had a 8600GT. But they withdrawed it from sales in min-2009 :|
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom