Experts help Upgrade with GTX 970

[JohnTr0]

Hi all I have a Laptop Dell Inspiron 15r 5521 With :
Processor: Core i5-3317U
Graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 4000 AMD Radeon HD 7670M
Internal memory 4 GB DDR3 (1.600 MHz)
Hard disk:500 GB
Optical drive😀VD burner
Display:1.366 x 768 (Glare)
Operation System:Windows 8 64 Bit

Is it possible to use http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html
To add a GTX 970 for an upgrade? to work it out as a desktop with a 19" wide monitor

Thank You

 

[TechyInAZ]

Hard to say, your laptop needs to have a PCIE slot inside the motherboard. So you'll have to unscrew the underside of the laptop and see if they're is a wifi card or pcie slot avaliable, if a wifi card is in there then take it out and replace it...

GTX 970 is not that great for your laptop, your i5 will bottleneck that card badly. Get a GTX 960 at most.

 

[JohnTr0]

Hard to say, your laptop needs to have a PCIE slot inside the motherboard. So you'll have to unscrew the underside of the laptop and see if they're is a wifi card or pcie slot avaliable, if a wifi card is in there then take it out and replace it...

GTX 970 is not that great for your laptop, your i5 will bottleneck that card badly. Get a GTX 960 at most.

The http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html is external PCI slot and if 970 would bottleneck what about R9 290 or 290x?

 

[Eximo]

That seems horrendously inconvenient, not exactly a quick removal. You will need a PC power supply to run the GPU as their 12V supply, which doesn't seem to be included in this kit if I read through the engrish correctly, input only supports up to 150W, and the GTX970 is rated at 145W, a little close for comfort.

And you would then have three GPUs in your system (unless you disabled your Radeon in the BIOS, assuming that is an option)

So they claim 16x connection capability, but the GPU will really be running at PCIe 2.0 at 1x according to the 5GT/s stat they put in there, not sure that the GTX970 will be happy with that. However, they contradict themselves in their chart about chipsets saying they get 90% performance using the HM77 and QM77 chipsets (ivy bridge, like you have).

It would certainly be interesting to try though as it is relatively cheap.

 

[Eximo]

Hard to say, your laptop needs to have a PCIE slot inside the motherboard. So you'll have to unscrew the underside of the laptop and see if they're is a wifi card or pcie slot avaliable, if a wifi card is in there then take it out and replace it...

GTX 970 is not that great for your laptop, your i5 will bottleneck that card badly. Get a GTX 960 at most.

The http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html is external PCI slot and if 970 would bottleneck what about R9 290 or 290x?

R9-290 and R9-290X would exceed the power rating maximum I believe. Their little adapter only supports up to 220W. (75W slot + 150W 8-pin connector = 225W, so they are playing it safe by assuming their circuitry will eat up 5W)

 

[JohnTr0]

Hard to say, your laptop needs to have a PCIE slot inside the motherboard. So you'll have to unscrew the underside of the laptop and see if they're is a wifi card or pcie slot avaliable, if a wifi card is in there then take it out and replace it...

GTX 970 is not that great for your laptop, your i5 will bottleneck that card badly. Get a GTX 960 at most.

The http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html is external PCI slot and if 970 would bottleneck what about R9 290 or 290x?

R9-290 and R9-290X would exceed the power rating maximum I believe. Their little adapter only supports up to 220W. (75W slot + 150W 8-pin connector = 225W, so they are playing it safe by assuming their circuitry will eat up 5W)

i can get an external power supply as long as the performance would be as good as expected