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Old 10-04-2011, 12:22 AM
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Talking Vaio Z128 Laptop + External GTX580 = BIG Grin! ;)
And now for something entirely different...........

Take one....

Vaio Z128GG Laptop



and one....

PE4H-EC2C-ver2.4 Express card to PCIe adapter +



and one....

Gigabyte GTX580ud




Shaken not stirred...







And you get...






Blackdeath 35-50FPS @ 1920x1080 Everything on high, shadows & SSAO off.
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Old 10-04-2011, 01:04 AM
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That's Genius lol
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Shouldn't that be "Vaio Z128 Laptop + External GTX580 + Ruddy great external PSU + Please keep the cat off it..."

Interesting.
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How do you get the 2nd power supply(external for the video card) to turn on when you turn on your laptop?
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Shouldn't that be "Vaio Z128 Laptop + External GTX580 + Ruddy great external PSU + Please keep the cat off it..."

Interesting.
Its on the to do list after I finish rebuilding the main system to put this into the case below with the built in 450W supply! Make it a bit more compact and portable!

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How do you get the 2nd power supply(external for the video card) to turn on when you turn on your laptop?
The PCIe board comes with another little board with a switch that plugs into the 24pin PSU cable. You power up the laptop and wait for the bios boot screen to show before powering on the GPU. Or leave it turned on and plug the expresscard in after the bios boot screen appears. It's hot pluggable once your into windows too as long as you have it configured properly during boot up.

I have 8GB ram in my laptop which means I need to move stuff around in memory with a pre-boot utility to make address space for the external GPU.

With most 4GB ram laptops you can just boot straight into windows no problem.
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Whats the price of such a PCI-E Adapter?
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Whats the price of such a PCI-E Adapter?
$85 US.

Everything you need to know is here...
http://forum.notebookreview.com/gami...periences.html

WARNING its not a simple plug n play affair. You have to do a fair bit of driver hacking and bios hacking to get it to work for some systems, particularly for the Vaio Z because of it's gay Hybrid graphics and Sony's slack video driver support!

For those wondering what real world performance is like.

In Crysis 2 DX11 Ultra pak @ 1920x1080 I get min 24fps avg 35fps outdoors and 50FPS indoors. Compared with the GT330M struggling to do 20FPS on lowest settings @ 1600x900!

ClOD gets 50FPS compared to 3FPS with the GT330M.

18K Vantage compared to a desktop GTX580 @ 24k.
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And just to put that into perspective, my built in so called dedicated GT330M does Vantage P1825 and 5fps vs 18900 and 55fps for the external GTX580.. Thats a 1000% (10x) increase in performance.
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lol!

Insane

Very happy for you.
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