Recent content by VXVaayu

Im gonna tell you my true intentions now, maybe that might help, y'see, This laptop is a big part of my childhood, I wanna revive it and give it new life, I have a projector and an ancient surround sound speaker setup. I wanna have movie nights and lan parties, I have games like halo, worms...

Gaming is not my main goal, I want a good amount of video outputs, currently my IGPU is not even able to get my cpu above 60% usage on any basic game before maxing out. Even for gaming, I will not be able to fully utilize the gpu, I need this gpu for hardware acceleration of a few of my apps...

So boys. I have a core 2 duo laptop, 2.6ghz 4mb with 6gb ram. GMA X3100, it's barely functional. The laptop has an Expresscard slot and I know a place to get a cheap EXP GDC that I can pair with a used gpu. My laptop surprisingly only takes 45w. and I know a PCIEx16 slot can only take up to...

and if anyone comments telling me to just get rid of the laptop and buy a new one, this is a passion project, the laptop was handed to me down from my uncle and is a very nostalgic thing from my childhood. It's a fun project for me to see the slow thing go from barely running vista with 1.5gb...

So alright, this is the situation, i have a laptop. Good enough quadcore 2ghz cpu, 6gb ram, ssd, problem, no gpu, igpu barely functional. found out EXP GDC is a thing, gonna buy it, only port available to me to use as egpu slot is expresscard, which only supports pcie 2.0 x1 even tho physical...