External GPU for gateway NV59 laptop

[Kieran Cooper]

my gateway nv59 notebook/laptop is mediocre for gaming, i barely maintain 30-50fps on CS:GO and populated garry's mod servers (1gb vram 5650 mobility radeon gpu, 4gb ram, i3 370m core). i was wondering if applying an external gpu through the usage of a PCI adapter (http://www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-Mini-PCI-E-Set-p-934367.html) would help me at all. scraping over $600+ for a brand new computer set is not an option. can the nv59 motherboard even support something like this? if this is an option, i have my eyes set on the radeon r9 270X gpu. is this all possible, or am i wasting my time here? i realize this isn't conventional, but i'm kind of desperate :/

 

[RazerZ]

It might work. In the video there is a warning stating that it won't work with some laptops, which is a very vague statement. Your laptop has one mini PCI-E slot for the wireless adapter so technically it should work. You would lose wireless capability if you decided to use the PCI adapter with your laptop.

It's $50 which isn't bad compared to the past external PCI solutions such as Vidock which cost around $200+.

however,

I'm fairly sure CS:GO is CPU dependent and a graphics card upgrade shouldn't increase your frame rate... you will need a new system.

 

[Kieran Cooper]

It might work. In the video there is a warning stating that it won't work with some laptops, which is a very vague statement. Your laptop has one mini PCI-E slot for the wireless adapter so technically it should work. You would lose wireless capability if you decided to use the PCI adapter with your laptop.

It's $50 which isn't bad compared to the past external PCI solutions such as Vidock which cost around $200+.

however,

I'm fairly sure CS:GO is CPU dependent and a graphics card upgrade shouldn't increase your frame rate... you will need a new system.

thanks, i guess that answered my question. are you sure that a graphics card upgrade won't do anything at all for CS:GO? the i3 370m is dual core and hyperthreaded (and overclocked with MSI afterburner), i would think that it could handle a game like this with a better graphics card to help it.