GTX 1070 to Laptop Thunderbolt 3 port?

[peduthedoob]

I'm heading off to college soon and I'll be leaving my gaming desktop at home. I am looking to buy a new laptop, however. I'm looking at the Dell XPS 15 2 in 1 which has 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports (4 lanes of PCIe Gen 3).

I've seen external GPU's that plug into TB3 ports but I don't want to spend money on one and I already have a GTX 1070 in my desktop. Thus, my question is:

Is it possible to take the GTX 1070 out of my desktop, and plug it into the TB3 port of my laptop (via some sort of adapter) and use it for gaming?

 

[Lutfij]

Well, in order to do that, you're going to need a graphics card dock/box which come bundled with a PSU and a slot to drop in your GPU of choice. Adapters, no, I wouldn't suggest that. Before you spend any money on a dock, I'd suggest that you invest in a laptop that is capable of gaming. A $1300 budget will net you a GTX1060 equipped laptop.

If you're yet interested in going for the 2 in 1, then I'd suggest you scope out it's gaming prowess and then see if it's lackluster. Following that you can look at investing in that dock.

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