if i buy an egpu can i use a thunderbolt 3 to usb a and will it still work?

[dimondfinder53]

i want to be able to play newer games on my laptop but i do not have a thunderbolt 3 on my current laptop. so i was wondering if i could just run a thunderbolt 3 to a usb type a converter

 

[jsmithepa]

Only the vendor of the egpu would know the answer, but my guess is, good luck.

 

[k1114]

No because usb does not have pcie protocols. Tb3 is not the only port with pcie. Every laptop with wifi has a slot, either mpcie or m.2, that the wifi card is in. There's also expresscard but that's on older laptops and also the older versions of tb.