This Vid is pointless Jay why would someone who has those laptops ever use this device?

Question why would anyone with a full GTX1080 in their laptop buy an external case and put a 1080 in it xD This would be usefull for people with say an i7 laptop with a non gaming mobile gpu in it.

Can i connect it to old asus notebooks like g551jw from 2015? (Sry for bad english)

This is useful information, but the point it missed. The point is if you have something more designed to productivity, such as one of the Surface machines, and you don’t want to buy a whole new PC. This lets you simply upgrade your portable work machine into a fully capable gaming machine when you’re home.

6 months revisit.

Would it not be worth it if your laptop doesn’t have a GPU to begin with?

What are the frames to an external display.?

Thunderbolt at best can only match PCIe 1x (1 lane). Both are serial transfer. It’s called physics. A graphics card is almost always PCIe 16x slot ie, 16 lane. So you have a 16x degradation vs. plugging the card into a MB backplane. Also Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 (and USB 2.0, 1.1) are external buses requiring a lot of ACK/NAK conversation to synch, error correct, etc. the data packets.

My suggestion (and what I have done) is forget the laptops.

Build a mini portable PC using mini ITX MB, 450w PS, I7 (actually I use a 3.6 GHz Xeon E4 — much faster), 16 – 32 MB RAM. And mini GTX 1060 — IN AN HONEST 16x slot. (A regular CPU air cooler is too big so I use a Corsair liquid cooler — 2 in-line 120mm fans sandwiching radiator, cool as a cucumber.) Whole lot in a Silverstone case. Not much larger than a big shoe box. It will knock the socks off the “docking” laptop soln. I bolted a cabinet handle to top — carrying around is a cinch. This no less than a full blown PC tower in a big shoe box. About the size of a home entertainment box. No laptop can hope to come close. And certainly not for the ~$1k cost. (I just use the monitor/HDTV at my destination.)

BTW I mainly use it for Video Editing so it has a 500GB SSD + 1TB HGST h/d. All in that little box.

first they began with floppy discs than the USB later came external the hard drive now the external GPU what next i am curious what invented in months or years to come

This will only works if your build-in GPU in your laptop is broken and unfixable and you dont want to throw away your whole useless laptop now because of it, like my poor Toshiba Qosmio

It’s a helluva dongle.

wtf…..I thought this was an alternative to SLI!!

JayazTwoCents you should use it on a laptop that does not have a good internal gpu or one that is not following the 10 series gpus because now the laptop gpu’s are literally the same as the regular gpus. so try it with a laptop running a 960m

correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t a Mac a PC since PC stands for personal computer

I had one of the later models of the ViDock (4 Plus) with a GTX 660 in it, connected through ExpressCard. For my HP 8540W and my Clevo M571, it was a way to extend their lives, however, few models had an accessible ExpressCard slot, and the performance of the card took a hit. Also, had to run the 8540W’s FX880M with a GTX driver for it to work…

Where can you buy this

If someone needs more power on a weaker laptop though it’s a completely viable solution

I would very much rather build a micro atx and carry that with me.

Is thunderbolt 3 had 40gb bandwidth?

Interesting video 🙂

spoiler alert no

But is it worth it with laptops with core i3 and no GPU but with a USB Type- C port?

Will a 1070 eGPU run about the same as a 1060?