Graphics Cards Enclosures / New Laptop and setup

[Painwraith0]

Hey all

I have been doing a lot of research recently into Laptops, historically I have always been a big gamer, but in current times as I have gotten older (like some of you) I find less and less time to game quite like I used to, and with the addition of kids also the expense I could afford for gaming rigs is also rapidly dissipating!

So I have after much deliberation come to the conclusion that I would like a new setup from my more historic Gaming rig + Work laptop and combine them into one, rather than have to maintain two costs, see if I can amalgamate these into one.

So my requirements are to have a two / three screen setup at home, with a professional looking laptop (not looking for a laptop with glowing this and that) that I can take to clients without them looking at my kit and laughing me out of the board room.

I have been seriously looking at a setup with a professional laptop with a thunderbolt connection that I can connect to an external enclosure for a Titan X. the laptop itself I would like a reasonable graphics card to game lightly when away on business trips (long boring nights in hotels!).

So far I have been looking at a Devilbox for the external graphics card (google it) it looks awesome, but there is no UK distributor yet (Overclockers?).

I have also been finding it hard to find a professional looking laptop with a decent graphics card (Maybe a 970m?) with the correct thunderbolt ports.... I had hoped that the Dell Inspiron 15 9550 may work but it doesnt seem to have a thunderbolt port, the XPS 15 does though....

Anyone also been looking at this kind of setup for future use and anyone with any thoughts on good kit to look at?

 

[TheOtherOption]

Firstly welcome to the forums!

I've just received my XPS 15 and it's a stunning bit of kit - you'd be getting jealous looks from clients at meetings not being laughed at!

The 960m it has is perfectly capable of gaming at low/medium settings @ 1080p - I was playing Just Cause 3 happily last night ... and of course as you say there is the option of an external graphics dock in future via the Thunderbolt 3 port

 

[Painwraith0]

Thank you!

I do like the look of the XPS. I love the Aorus, but although its a stunning machine I wish they would do a 'Stealth' version that looked professional.... its kinda forcing me down the dell XPS route.

Seemingly its pretty early for the Graphics cards enclosures, but hopefully within the next 6 months we will start to see Thunderbolt 3 non proprietary enclosures that can be used on any T3 enabled machine.

Lets face it that seems to be the way the market is going, a laptop with an enclosure so you can get the power at home but still work without someone raising their eyebrows at an obvious gaming rig