Gaming with external GPU

[yasho2249]

I am a student n I like to hav a light weight laptop to carry with me n when am home I can plug an eGPU to it and play those graphically intense games on my laptop or TV. Soo I was looking at those eGPU setups and the thunderbolt 3 looks the best one of all bt the docking stations for thunderbolt are too expensive for me right now(they r really expensive in my country)....soo I am thinking of using the mpcie slot(generally where the wifi card goes) to connect the Gpu with exp gdc. It costs abt $50 n while Ik the bandwidth is limiting am nt really thinking of going above a GTX 960 for now. Soo I just wanted to ask is the bottleneck for something like a 960 really significant? I mean how much is the performance hit in terms if fps. I wanna play games at 1080p on the laptop display(preferably). In future I might get a thunderbolt docking station for something higher

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

I would say that some did used an eGPU setup with their old laptop which they didn't had any problem or bottlenecks. Just make sure that your power supply is enough to power the GPU that you'll be using.

Here's a video guide about the eGPU setup someone posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Qw_37t_zw

 

[yasho2249]

The laptops with thunderbolt are expensive....The xps 13 base model was good for my budget bt it comes with a 4gb ram and i3 only....Can u recommend me a laptop with an extra mpcie slot,a good CPU and a 1080p display for gaming on it.....I wanna use the laptop display for playing games

 

[yasho2249]

Sry for the down vote :-( was a misclick