And thunderbolt still has bottleneck. Not until Thunderbolt 5 becomes as mainstream as Thunderbolt 3 will we finally get meaningful eGPU support. So, dont expect it until 2028.
How to put a GPU inside laptop: *1. Put a GPU **_outside laptop_* Edit: lol it has 3.9k likes and yt did not say a thing about it. I often make comment and never look back at it again but this time i did and it has likes..? So that means i might even have more comments that have lots of likes but i dont even know. *Conclusion: youtube is stupid*
Leave back cover of the laptop out then build an enclosure attachment of about 5 inches deep and cover the laptop's bottom with that and install a carrying handle in the middle of the top center area of the laptop to be able to carry it around when the laptop is closed. You will have the world's modern bulkiest laptop but at least the GPU would be internal.
@@Feelrightathome get a t430 seriously upgrade the cpu to i7 3610qm, 16gb ram add ssd and hdd uses express card/slot (4gbps bandwith instead of thunderbolt 3 32gbps) and put a rx 580 total £300 tell me how it goes
Depends though. If you want something that can be beefy like a desktop but still move with you, as well as being cost efficient giving you more room in a budget for better upgrades, then i highgly recommend taking an old laptop and upgrading it. If you want to use a bigger monitor just use a HDMI (If your laptop isnt too old to not have one) I was considering building a PC from scratch but it would have been around £600 and knowing i can upgrade my already good laptop for cheaper and get the same gaming capabilities out of it is a no brainer. Good thing about this is you can easily remove the upgrades to move into a PC build. Easy!
@@jeff-hd9og Well that is still technically 10+. But you are always welcome to throw one in my direction, the GTX 960 that I have in my pc is dying and you would still have 9999 left
One day, you should take one of those huge old laptops and try what modern hardware (PC Hardware in the best case) you can fit in and then see how it will perform. This would be very interesting to see.
The problem is, most people who want to run an external graphics card on a laptop on the cheap have a really cheap laptop too. That means no NVMe, and usually the highest-bandwidth port you'll find is USB 3.0. So a solution like this, while fascinating, only serves a very specific niche of people who somehow spent a decent chunk of change without getting a dedicated card internally.
asmcint I use an eGPU because I want an ultra portable laptop, but also don't want to spend more money+room on a desktop, as well as having to deal with two systems.
Mini-PCIe also requires you to open the laptop, which significantly hinders the convenience factor of such a product. And as Linus mentions in the video, most laptops only have one such slot, which is often taken up by some form of networking device, usually WiFi, which most would consider essential.
a lot of laptops have 2 minipci slots, and if they don't: thats why usb dongles exist. opening up your laptop isn't hard, it just takes time and you only have to do it once. this isn't designed for new laptops like the one he tried to use, this is designed for laptops that are 10 years old.
He basically threw in the towel. It's just not feasible for such a big piece of dedicated hardware to be compatible with a laptop. I still think the eGPU enclosure is a viable solution honestly. My laptop has a RTX 2060 and 32GB ram. It's plenty enough for high/ultra 1080p gaming and 4k/multi monitor productivity. But if I wanted to bump up the muscle to run at a higher resolution, then the eGPU would be the ticket, until I built a proper mini tower. The best part is that since you have to buy the gpu for a gaming rig anyways, that's one less thing you have to worry with.
vs them using the titan v for the testing? Notice also, they're all Nvidia brand, and not off stuff like EGA or Gigabyte, which is pretty much what the rest of us have if we have them at all.
AnimeChuck Yeah, they use the founder's edition, which is the term used as far as I can remember, we on the other hand, not me though, have those other brand versions. Nice observation, Sherlock... Yay...
AnimeChuck Might have slightly to do with the fact that Nvidia sponsors them directly. Oh and, "the rest of us" can buy whatever we want. These cards are reference models, or "founders" editions, and are sold just like any other card. "Off stuff". Are you seriously suggesting a reference card is not official?
I love seeing MSI laptops from the early-mid 10's. I picked one up at the recommendation of my computer guy when I was looking at it and I had no idea how good of a pick up it was until now with decent upgrade options
Yeah, except the quality of their support service who trashed my laptop with damaged case + white powder on screen and keyboard AND stuff that looked like cutted nails. Plus my machine got already overheating shutdown because of a fucking BIOS problem that got patched 2 days later but was enough to fry the internal audio, some parts of the external case, some keyboard keys, wifi + bluetooth module and the keyboard's backlights. Not sure to dish out more money to them after this crap.
OMG. The GE62 has a sata m.2 slot, not PCI. How I hate this moments when they just plain lie to the people and say that they don't know why it doesn't work.
Linus is faling hard at this stuff. From the CPU benchmarks at 4K ultra settings to stuff as dumb as trying to use a 10 series graphics card as an eGPU (Nvidia crippled the thing via driver updates).
That's what I was thinking... M2 is basically a connector, it can provide PCI Express, SATA... or even USB 3. That's why you always need to check you motherboard doc to know what's behind your M2 port before thinking of plugging something on there.
@@ure2grit931 all he did was basically ocmplain. something tells me he's been payed off by the big boys in the market. it's an obvious solution with more performance than thundebolt 3 egpus minimal little effort but it don't fatten the pockets of the retailers lmao
He make this solution a nightmare so you never think about it for the laptop retaliers companys sake which sponsoring his channel. Sorry for my english im not native speaker.
@@じある I agree. It is basically a paid shill to discredit eGPU, it is so obvious and such a low effort video. At least he could have shown footage of them trying it and we would be like "oh yeah this shit doesn't work, let's move on" but he basically just says "don't do it trust me, it is such a waste of time"
@@AzDaHa it's funny that he asked who does tech was for, here I am in 2024 buying $100 Dell inspirion with an i7 12 gigabytes of RAM and the only real bottleneck being the 1060 q Max. It may not have been the best idea to do it to a brand new laptop, but to do it to one that's 6 years old I'm getting some fairly decent entry level power for under $200 is pretty nice.
I have actually been researching this. The Beast in particular and everything I have seen so far is the biggest graphics card to use is a gtx1060. So with him using a 1080, of course he failed. As much as I like his channels, he is notorious for using top dollar stuff that most of the rest of us can't afford anyway.
That's only handy for laptops with a broken screen or keyboard or trackpad which I doubt LTT have. I also don't see the point of it anyways when you may as well keep the laptop compontnents in the laptop instead to save the time wasted from taking it out
As in the joke belongs to me? "ur" could be "you're" but that would imply that my name is "joke". If you mean "your", then yes, that joke belongs to me. I would love if you could explain more though, potato
Hey Linus, Now you're part of the Framework project, maybe you could ask them to make a pcie external slot extension for those (like me) who would like to have a laptop for work with an egpu for gaming :) Because i'm currently looking to buy a razer core x chroma egpu case conected in thunderbolt to my work laptop station ... but it should be better if it could have a PCIE external slot directly ...
Dewd! Can't believe that you gave up so easily. RandomGamingInHD connected a regular PCIE 1X external card adapter to a cheap ASUS Celeron based laptop... (It worked, though the results weren't great, as you'll suspect due to the low end Celeron CPU)
These are sick and work really well, and even come in various varieties including mini PCI-E, M.2, NGFF and Express Slot. However, you can't just expect it to work by shoving any old card into any old slot on any old laptop. Hell, even the type of *monitor* may prevent it from working if it has such tech as Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) or Panel Self Refresh (PSR), and even BIOS settings like Enable Hybrid Graphics. You also may need the software, DIY eGPU Setup 1.35. Do your homework before buying, but it's a sick product for those with a great laptop that's outdated such as a HP ZBook or similar, maybe your parents gave you one, maybe it's your only computer, whatever the case, quad core laptops can game just as well as a full sized desktop with the right know-how, and this route often is *FAR* cheaper than upgrading an MXM-III internal GPU if yours even has one, maybe you have a Quadro like me, but it doesn't matter if you don't have a dGPU at all. This video was awful and half arsed, this product is great for those on a strict gaming budget like high school students, or for those just looking to mess around with something niche.
linus isn't the only one to review this. there's many videos about this. I've been wanting one just to have one, but the compatibility is limited. check the list on the website. look for other uploads. linus just confirmed 2 more laptops that wont work. He should have asked his employees and test a bunch of laptops to get a working one, but then again i bet none of his employees wants linus breaking their laptop 🤣🤣
I don’t think he did it right with the v9.0. It is exiting if you get v8.0 instead of 9.0. I had one for 4 months and it worked one for me ALTHOUGH AMD is recommended for a gpu.
this damn combo is what got me into building my own pc gaming i built a t420 up bought the gdc beast and a 1050 ti but at the time it wasnt compatible with the pascal so i gave up got an optiplex and slapped in the 1050ti got the upgrade bug and now have 2 gaming rigs including a custom water loop anyhoo were you able to get the 1050 ti to work with the gdc and did you use the express card way?
Gabriel Molina yes i got everything working. I'm using the express card version of the beast adapter. I'm using ubuntu 18 and it was a pretty simple install. I installed the nvidia 390 driver and tested it with a few games. The reason for the build was to make a cheap setup for deep learning and install tensorflow. I made a couple videos on the build over on my channel
i used this for quite some time with a GTX 2070 on a dell with a 1060 go. gave me a great work laptop with good battery life and a desktop station at home with my vr setup
Keep in mind here that linus here is using the M.2 SSD port for the EXP GDC egpu and not the ngff/mini-pcie port that used by the wifi.The exp gdc through the m.2 port is not the common standard while using the exp gdc. Its not recommended. The cable is the most expensive, and the chance of it working is the lowest compared to using the exp gdc through the mini-pcie/ngff slot.
Today the cheap and painless way is a ADT R43SG (several models) and a mini pc or laptop. the gdc and an older laptop can be difficult. best with new bios, they seem to support it out of the box now
I bought a 8 dollar gpu adapter off ebay and tested it and it works with my hd 5770. Worked on my hp laptop. In heaven benchmark I got about 60 fps on 720p instead of 10 fps
One of these, I presume? www.ebay.com/itm/MINI-PCI-E-TO-X16-PCIE-RISER-ADAPTER-GRAPHICS-CARD-PLUS-TO-LAPTOP/263078482873?hash=item3d40b313b9:g:~h0AAOSwFqNZRWuT
Was literally thinking the same thing. Older laptops are likely to have a NGFF SATA slot and not PCIe. You're actually more likely to succeed with the wifi card slot since it HAS to be PCIe. Edit: Adding on, some BIOS will actually whitelist specific PCI devices too. I have an old Lenovo that I had to have someone patch the BIOS when I wanted to upgrade from an N card to an AC card.
The Astro Gamer I mean you can do it to any laptop but it will most definitely void your warranty and would take so.e wandering and really careful removal
I have no idea why he struggled so much.. It took me 3 minutes to set up on my MSI laptop.. No bios updates, no nothing .. Flawless startup and games worked straight up.. I went the pcie route not the nvme though ..
Using same minipcie to usb3 to pciex16 method. Only problem i found is gtx 10 series cards wouldnt even let me post into bios. Didnt have a decent gtx 9xx card so now im using a hd6670 to get a third Monitor
inthemonye , I have the cx61 and I’m running a gtx970, I’ll be moving on up in gpu’s soon as I’ve tested a 1070 (friend has one) and works perfectly aswell..
I'm from the future, during the bearded era of Linus, and the face in this video is a shock. I forgot about this version with the socks and sandals and what not.
It's been a while since I've binge watched Linus videos, I'm kind of off and on, I'll start binge-watching him for a month or so, lose interest, then come back to him again in like 2 months, but if I wear asked to pick just one thing I love about this channel, is that you keep your intro plugs around 10 seconds long. While this sounds like an arbitrary thing, it is insanely smart, most phones nowadays allow you to skip 10 seconds if you double tap the right side of your screen really quick, and is what I would assume a lot of us do anytime a sponsor plug is played in a video, we just double tap until we are skipped through it, because we're binge-watching content and want to get to the point, but, most of the time we overshoot or undershoot and have to find where the sponsor plug actually ends, Linus keeping it at 10 seconds on all of his videos means one double tap and we're into the content.
Linus: We tried...Bios Update, Disabling Integrated GPU, New / Old Drivers, New / Old Graphics Cards... It just won't work! Me: Did you try an external monitor........ mic drop.
I had an eGPU GTX760 via Express Card and an od HP Elitebook2760p. It worked, was a lot of work but for 3 years this was the only way for me to play with my friends. You need to research a lot before you go buy it. But there are a lot of informations out there how it works, you can ask in the forums anything they are truely awesome people there. And there are even other brands making this adapter ( the one you were using i only heard bad things back when i set everything up). But last week I bought a Asus GL503VM with a GTX1060 and its so f*** awesome xD Only cost 1200€ lol
Тм Тм I have a desktop PC with a Ryzen 1700 and a 1060 but I have a laptop with an AMD A8 and 8gbs of ram. I want to use it as a server for video games and along that line. But it gets super hot and I want to cool it down. So I wanna put it in an old PC case of mine and throw on an old 120mm server radiator I have but I'm not sure how to. I'm probably gonna end up making it about as ghetto as the liquid cooling cheaper than an AIO lol
get some thermally conductive epoxi or adhesive, glue a normal radiator onto your CPU and support the radiator with a custom built framework so it sits tight after the glue hardens. Put a slow spinning fan on the radiator and built your case around it however you like. There you go.
Scitch87 thanks that's a really good idea. I was gonna just put some thermal paste and zip it down to the mobo and try and put it in the case while finding a way to use the fan like possibly splicing it to USB or using it to replace the CPU fan
i've been using it for about 6 months. If you really have no another choice, its worth giving it a chance. But you wont get top performance cause PCIE x1. Some games handle this really well, most not.
Worth it if you're a poor gamer and if you can take your laptop apart without breaking it then yes I watched several videos about this and I must say it's pretty darn good
Well I've been using the exp gdc, with a 1050ti, had to do that ddu thing where you boot into safe mode use ddu and uninstall your gpu driver's then install a custom older driver that originally didn't supporting the 1050 to but after the modification it does and after that u restart and u can get the latest driver's and it's still going strong for me
I had great success with the smart card variety on my enterprise laptop while I was scrimping to build my PC. I bought my GPU, PSU, and the beast first; played on that for about 6 mo waiting for a bonus at work, then bought the rest and assembled the system. I was out $80 for the beast at the end, but it was worth it to play Arma 3 and Fall Out in the interm. Would recommend as a temporary solution if you research on the forums first to verify compatibility and get lucky that it will all work.
Why did you even assemble a pc when the laptop egpu setup worked? :D How much did the frames go up when the GPU was in the PC? I have a Dell Optiplex 390 PC with a GTX 960 in it and a Dell e6430 that i'm thinking of trying out with a egpu setup.
3:26 you unintentionally described my mothers replacement heart setup she had temporarily,i laughed when you almost to the tee even had your hands placed where hers was lol
I’m surprised they never came up with a standard for external pcie connections, similar to esata (i.e. it’s basically the raw slot made external in a suitable way). I know there would be limitations but it may still be suitable for e.g. external gpus.
@@Kuri0 IIRC/AFAIK Thunderbolt still requires a separate controller to PCI-E/cost (depending on the CPU) and from when I last looked at it had limitations/performance loss in comparison to using an actual PCI-E slot. Bearing in mind we’re talking about a post I made a while back, I was likely thinking of something to externalise a full x16 slot with as few limitations/cost as possible, hence my comparison to esata which from my experience is just a physical change.
it is swap-able .. it's just a cable .. mine has the PCIe and nvme .. the connector in the laptop used dictates speed, the actual beast just goes with whatever is given to it..
Crazy times here in late 2021. Love watching these older videos. Crazy how much more powerful the GPU’s are now vs then. Unbelievable. It’s a shame you can’t get a graphics card through a retailer. You have to get it from a scalper.
it are to be said that even with the WiFi mostly occupying the mini-PCIe it are easy to offer for the greater good. why? because you mostly can get a ultra tiny USB WiFi that more or less will be faster than what was installed.
If you could make a 'breakaway' M.2 cable always connected internally, but disconnectable in maybe the optical drive slot (taped to keep in place); to be able to reconnect much quicker and conveniently each time you're ready to game.
Seeing this on my laptop
My laptop: *sweats nervously*
Karthik Nayak LoL
I was watching this on my tv and my laptop jumped out of the window 😐
Might wanna check your laptop if its sweating it might start running away when you get a new cooler
Throw your laptop in a bath of ice.
Check the custom water cooling of the Titan V
When the video ended I looked at my laptop
My laptop: Just don't
literally...the cooling fans started working harder...i think it's a sign XD
I didn't liked the comment since that there is 420 likes nice
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@fudgie4898 cringe
@@UrPPhard double cringe
"How do you put one of these in one of these ? The answer, is with one of these "
Blind People:
why would a blind person want a gpu
@@biancamarsh1044 graphical audio editing
@@biancamarsh1044 for COMPUTING POWER in their PHISICS PHD. blind people could be smart, you know
*slaps knee
poooooop!
It's funny to me after 5 years thunderbolt egpu solution now in 2024 is still on the more expansive side
And thunderbolt still has bottleneck. Not until Thunderbolt 5 becomes as mainstream as Thunderbolt 3 will we finally get meaningful eGPU support. So, dont expect it until 2028.
@@RobloxianX Nah, I think brands like framework might just launch a laptop with an external pcie slot for e-gpu's before that.
@@BinfinityFramework already kind of did that.
Linus: how to put a gpu in a laptop
Also linus: so we gave up
ikr what a waste
Yea, like I was waiting for the goddamn benchmark. Jesus.
then its not a laptop anymore
@@gnbilios yep its an ass top then
i needed a real solution 😢
How to put a GPU inside laptop:
*1. Put a GPU **_outside laptop_*
Edit: lol it has 3.9k likes and yt did not say a thing about it. I often make comment and never look back at it again but this time i did and it has likes..? So that means i might even have more comments that have lots of likes but i dont even know.
*Conclusion: youtube is stupid*
Dayum
xDDDDDDD
Buy new Laptop with GPU fixes inside perfect
Leave back cover of the laptop out then build an enclosure attachment of about 5 inches deep and cover the laptop's bottom with that and install a carrying handle in the middle of the top center area of the laptop to be able to carry it around when the laptop is closed. You will have the world's modern bulkiest laptop but at least the GPU would be internal.
Genius
So basically..
1: sell laptop
2: buy desktop
I dont have the money for a food desktop :(
@@Feelrightathome get a t430 seriously
upgrade the cpu to i7 3610qm, 16gb ram add ssd and hdd
uses express card/slot (4gbps bandwith instead of thunderbolt 3 32gbps)
and put a rx 580
total £300
tell me how it goes
@@tgdhsuk3589 ok
Ppl Choose Laptop beacuse they can go Anywhere with that Laptop even on Vacation.
Depends though. If you want something that can be beefy like a desktop but still move with you, as well as being cost efficient giving you more room in a budget for better upgrades, then i highgly recommend taking an old laptop and upgrading it.
If you want to use a bigger monitor just use a HDMI (If your laptop isnt too old to not have one)
I was considering building a PC from scratch but it would have been around £600 and knowing i can upgrade my already good laptop for cheaper and get the same gaming capabilities out of it is a no brainer.
Good thing about this is you can easily remove the upgrades to move into a PC build. Easy!
01:40 I mean, if you remove the wifi card and put the beast (exp-gdc) in there, can't you use a usb-wifi adapter??? They are cheap these days.
Yes
or just connect the laptop with RJ45 cable
Or we can used usb tethering from smartphone, if you don't have wifi access and won't buy any wifi adapter ..
@@assafalshochat9519 right, who games on Wifi.
@@MrAmisto I do. Now shut
"How do you put one of *these* in one of *these* ? The answer, is with one of *these* "
you got that right. 😂 this dumbass did not show how to do it.
HAH! the answer..is with one of these..
So this is how you get likes repeat what he said
imagine a blind fellow hearing this...
With one of deez if u know what I mean
*Instructions unclear GPU stuck in smartphone*
@@alexhijstee7164 lmao
It can now run minecraft at 1x1 at 10fps at lowest settings
Now your angry birds will look real!
basically nvidia when making the shield products XD
Lol I am still laughing after an hour
😂😂😂😂😂
Funny how linus holds the GPU carelessly while I'm scared everytime i open my pc to clean it up.
I guess he has like 10+ of them... so not a big deal for him...
deadeyesonly 10000
@@jeff-hd9og Well that is still technically 10+. But you are always welcome to throw one in my direction, the GTX 960 that I have in my pc is dying and you would still have 9999 left
@@deadeyesonly I wish he was the real linus.
Once you outgrow the fear of the ESD demon you enter a new world with bright eyes
Linus: tries to put an External gpu in a predator to boost gaming performance
Predator: Am I a joke to you
Haahaaa What an Ed. Merry Xmas anyway
Linus: Yes
Then Linus goes into evil cat mode and drops Predator off table.
Exactly! though will try this one on my old hp probook 6570b with intel core i7 3720qm whichever connector is possible. 😅😅
"Some mobile devices should actually have more than 1 M.2 slot, like this one..." Grabs top of the line "Predator" laptop. LMFAO!!!!!!!!
ikr i noticed that too was like dafuq that thing already plays most games on ultra or high when you use the overclock app it comes with lol
I mean, my $700 Acer Nitro 5 does have dual M.2 slots.
My $700 MSI bravo 15 also has 2 nvme slots.
My $800 MSI GF65 has 2 nvme slots as well.
My butt has 2 M.2 slots also
>Geforce 940M
>NVMe
>6000-series Intel CPU
>"old laptop"
NO MA'AM Only on LinusTechTips
Depends who you are and what you do. Many people that do cpu/gpu-intensive tasks really feel the age of their 1-2 year old laptops
i3 4005U
840m..
>i5-3210m
>650m
Still kicking ass
My laptop with an i7 4720HQ and GTX 860m was crying when I tried to play FFXV on it.
When you win a GPU but you forget that you don't even have a desktop.
I won once a GPU but I couldn't use it in my ITX pc nor in my netbook, so I sold it fast xD.
@@ScientistDog I am so jealous now shortage why sell it
One day, you should take one of those huge old laptops and try what modern hardware (PC Hardware in the best case) you can fit in and then see how it will perform. This would be very interesting to see.
PC or laptop hardware? I suspect it would experience cooling problems but maybe not. Only one way to find out.
@@308dad8 comes with a cooler, and small enough to fit stuff like a battery, speakers, additional fans, etc.
308 Dad wouldn’t the power supply be a problem as well
Im working my rigs and got some videos in the near future 😊
That's what I'm trying to do but it's very very complicated especially on a budget
The problem is, most people who want to run an external graphics card on a laptop on the cheap have a really cheap laptop too. That means no NVMe, and usually the highest-bandwidth port you'll find is USB 3.0. So a solution like this, while fascinating, only serves a very specific niche of people who somehow spent a decent chunk of change without getting a dedicated card internally.
asmcint I use an eGPU because I want an ultra portable laptop, but also don't want to spend more money+room on a desktop, as well as having to deal with two systems.
you can plug an version of this into mini-pcie which is on virtually any laptop.
Mini-PCIe also requires you to open the laptop, which significantly hinders the convenience factor of such a product. And as Linus mentions in the video, most laptops only have one such slot, which is often taken up by some form of networking device, usually WiFi, which most would consider essential.
a lot of laptops have 2 minipci slots, and if they don't: thats why usb dongles exist. opening up your laptop isn't hard, it just takes time and you only have to do it once. this isn't designed for new laptops like the one he tried to use, this is designed for laptops that are 10 years old.
Hm. Okay, I might look into it then. Still, the product on display *here* is kind of pointless.
I somehow left this video with less answers than when I went in...? Did he actually offer a solution, or did that go over my head?
nope, he gave up
He basically threw in the towel. It's just not feasible for such a big piece of dedicated hardware to be compatible with a laptop. I still think the eGPU enclosure is a viable solution honestly. My laptop has a RTX 2060 and 32GB ram. It's plenty enough for high/ultra 1080p gaming and 4k/multi monitor productivity. But if I wanted to bump up the muscle to run at a higher resolution, then the eGPU would be the ticket, until I built a proper mini tower. The best part is that since you have to buy the gpu for a gaming rig anyways, that's one less thing you have to worry with.
@@oldschoolmobile then he shouldn't have made the video, thats just bait.
@@nownamedrob yeah it should have been titled "is it possible to use a desktop gpu (inside) of a laptop".
he just click baited no solution
I like the way how Linus always casually says"I just grabbed a GTX 1080!"
vs them using the titan v for the testing?
Notice also, they're all Nvidia brand, and not off stuff like EGA or Gigabyte, which is pretty much what the rest of us have if we have them at all.
AnimeChuck Yeah, they use the founder's edition, which is the term used as far as I can remember, we on the other hand, not me though, have those other brand versions. Nice observation, Sherlock... Yay...
AnimeChuck Might have slightly to do with the fact that Nvidia sponsors them directly. Oh and, "the rest of us" can buy whatever we want. These cards are reference models, or "founders" editions, and are sold just like any other card. "Off stuff". Are you seriously suggesting a reference card is not official?
Salad Fingers
Official? That is not at all what they were suggesting... That is a weird question
I love seeing MSI laptops from the early-mid 10's. I picked one up at the recommendation of my computer guy when I was looking at it and I had no idea how good of a pick up it was until now with decent upgrade options
Yeah, except the quality of their support service who trashed my laptop with damaged case + white powder on screen and keyboard AND stuff that looked like cutted nails.
Plus my machine got already overheating shutdown because of a fucking BIOS problem that got patched 2 days later but was enough to fry the internal audio, some parts of the external case, some keyboard keys, wifi + bluetooth module and the keyboard's backlights.
Not sure to dish out more money to them after this crap.
@@sasuke65743 i guess performance has a price
dark elf
OMG. The GE62 has a sata m.2 slot, not PCI. How I hate this moments when they just plain lie to the people and say that they don't know why it doesn't work.
Linus is faling hard at this stuff. From the CPU benchmarks at 4K ultra settings to stuff as dumb as trying to use a 10 series graphics card as an eGPU (Nvidia crippled the thing via driver updates).
I love how on the resellers sites it is stated that 10xx GPUs are mostly incompatibile. Jams in a 10xx anyway cause "science". Fail.
That's what I was thinking... M2 is basically a connector, it can provide PCI Express, SATA... or even USB 3. That's why you always need to check you motherboard doc to know what's behind your M2 port before thinking of plugging something on there.
He did say it was supposedly NvME capable...
It even has a label on the PCB that says SATA. I know Linus knows this but they just make a script and stick to it. It's a fake video.
put a desktop gpu in a laptop the cheap way..
but don't actually do it because it doesn't work
nice
It's work.
169 likes lmao
WTF... you didn't even offer a solution. This was a complete waste of time.
His videos in a nutshell
im disapoint
@@ure2grit931 all he did was basically ocmplain. something tells me he's been payed off by the big boys in the market.
it's an obvious solution with more performance than thundebolt 3 egpus minimal little effort but it don't fatten the pockets of the retailers lmao
He make this solution a nightmare so you never think about it for the laptop retaliers companys sake which sponsoring his channel. Sorry for my english im not native speaker.
@@じある I agree. It is basically a paid shill to discredit eGPU, it is so obvious and such a low effort video. At least he could have shown footage of them trying it and we would be like "oh yeah this shit doesn't work, let's move on" but he basically just says "don't do it trust me, it is such a waste of time"
Linus… it is 2023 we need an update.. 😮😮😮
2024 now
@@AzDaHa yea with the oculink hype going on....
@@AzDaHa 2024 we need it
2024 now…
@@AzDaHa it's funny that he asked who does tech was for, here I am in 2024 buying $100 Dell inspirion with an i7 12 gigabytes of RAM and the only real bottleneck being the 1060 q Max. It may not have been the best idea to do it to a brand new laptop, but to do it to one that's 6 years old I'm getting some fairly decent entry level power for under $200 is pretty nice.
4:32 Hurt me
smackdown
I have a latitude e6250
I have actually been researching this. The Beast in particular and everything I have seen so far is the biggest graphics card to use is a gtx1060. So with him using a 1080, of course he failed. As much as I like his channels, he is notorious for using top dollar stuff that most of the rest of us can't afford anyway.
soooo if i do buy this beast i have to use a gpu below the 1060 or the 1060. so couldi in theory use a 1060 gtx???
shit i didnt read ur comment correctly
I know it's been 2 years, but plenty of people buy top or high end hardware. Just because you can't afford it doesn't mean everyone else can't.
He said he tried older cards and held up a 1050ti.
I've successfully used 3080 over minipcie version of the beast
Now put a laptop in a PC case.
That's only handy for laptops with a broken screen or keyboard or trackpad which I doubt LTT have. I also don't see the point of it anyways when you may as well keep the laptop compontnents in the laptop instead to save the time wasted from taking it out
Lol it's a joke wclifton968
As in the joke belongs to me? "ur" could be "you're" but that would imply that my name is "joke". If you mean "your", then yes, that joke belongs to me. I would love if you could explain more though, potato
I won't be impressed until they stuff two desktop pc's in a single laptop case.
True that
Hey Linus, Now you're part of the Framework project, maybe you could ask them to make a pcie external slot extension for those (like me) who would like to have a laptop for work with an egpu for gaming :) Because i'm currently looking to buy a razer core x chroma egpu case conected in thunderbolt to my work laptop station ... but it should be better if it could have a PCIE external slot directly ...
This was the first linus episode that didnt help me :((
Dewd!
Can't believe that you gave up so easily.
RandomGamingInHD connected a regular PCIE 1X external card adapter to a cheap ASUS Celeron based laptop... (It worked, though the results weren't great, as you'll suspect due to the low end Celeron CPU)
He probs did it thru the mini pcie slot which was what linus was avoiding
RyTrapp0 thats a very good point
@@RyTrapp0 or a usb WiFi adapter
The cheap way? I didn't know that GTX 1080 is "cheap"
Boosted Are you having trouble in life? Is there something going on with you, preventing the capability of thought?
I've seen dumbasses way worse than this idiot is. Go away Boosted
sonyviva308 lol but he right it aint about the graphic card
He deleted his comment lmao
What a fucking idiot lol.
These are sick and work really well, and even come in various varieties including mini PCI-E, M.2, NGFF and Express Slot. However, you can't just expect it to work by shoving any old card into any old slot on any old laptop. Hell, even the type of *monitor* may prevent it from working if it has such tech as Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) or Panel Self Refresh (PSR), and even BIOS settings like Enable Hybrid Graphics. You also may need the software, DIY eGPU Setup 1.35. Do your homework before buying, but it's a sick product for those with a great laptop that's outdated such as a HP ZBook or similar, maybe your parents gave you one, maybe it's your only computer, whatever the case, quad core laptops can game just as well as a full sized desktop with the right know-how, and this route often is *FAR* cheaper than upgrading an MXM-III internal GPU if yours even has one, maybe you have a Quadro like me, but it doesn't matter if you don't have a dGPU at all. This video was awful and half arsed, this product is great for those on a strict gaming budget like high school students, or for those just looking to mess around with something niche.
I’m just looking to to be able to run a couple cpu and audio intensive programs at once without massive lag
The concept is at least. When this video was released, I tried three different cards and it burned out all of them
He wasn't that energetic with the sponsor like he was with tunnel bear
UberOnyx I know I seen that video but doesn't mean he has to act differently for the new sponsor
Speaking of tunnelbear
TUNNELBEAR IS A VPN SERVICE!...
Pia probably wants a more serious ad spot
Speaking of energetic!
Tunne.. *ahem*
PIA! the new vpn sponsor of LTT
Probably because PIA is a good VPN service and doesn't need the shoutcasting treatment.
This sounded very exciting till it wasn't :/
linus isn't the only one to review this. there's many videos about this. I've been wanting one just to have one, but the compatibility is limited. check the list on the website. look for other uploads. linus just confirmed 2 more laptops that wont work. He should have asked his employees and test a bunch of laptops to get a working one, but then again i bet none of his employees wants linus breaking their laptop 🤣🤣
SDG Danny Yes, that is very nice. Use *Like Bot* to get to *Top Comments*
and *Get attention for small channel*
I was so excited till I saw this before the vid started
I don’t think he did it right with the v9.0. It is exiting if you get v8.0 instead of 9.0. I had one for 4 months and it worked one for me ALTHOUGH AMD is recommended for a gpu.
yeah.. screw this. im going deep with my exp gdc..
I've done a budget eGPU using a Thinkpad t420s + GTX 1050Ti. All for under $400. works great with ubuntu 18 and latest nvidia drivers.
cheers
this damn combo is what got me into building my own pc gaming i built a t420 up bought the gdc beast and a 1050 ti but at the time it wasnt compatible with the pascal so i gave up got an optiplex and slapped in the 1050ti got the upgrade bug and now have 2 gaming rigs including a custom water loop anyhoo were you able to get the 1050 ti to work with the gdc and did you use the express card way?
Gabriel Molina yes i got everything working. I'm using the express card version of the beast adapter. I'm using ubuntu 18 and it was a pretty simple install. I installed the nvidia 390 driver and tested it with a few games. The reason for the build was to make a cheap setup for deep learning and install tensorflow. I made a couple videos on the build over on my channel
No, we're not interested. Now Fuck off with your self advertising of your terrible channel.
@Goobers why are you so butthurt?
8:49 lol
I loved that pause before saying "forever" with that hand gesture
I dont even have a laptop why am I here
ELINOX62 you know
Too let you know to never get a laptop for gaming. Q_Q
Same
because it's linus, he won't let you not watch it
@@KawaiiSoulB42 . My laptop I7 8th generation, 16 gigs of ram, 1 terabyte ssd and gtx 1080 works fine for gaming.
I was seriously excited at first...
I thought he would say "The answer is.........you don't."
i used this for quite some time with a GTX 2070 on a dell with a 1060 go. gave me a great work laptop with good battery life and a desktop station at home with my vr setup
RIP tunnelbear
Edem Boi f
Sad how Linus is cheating after such a long relationship. :(
Der Jay McAfee is a home wrecker
pedobear
Edem Boi F
Keep in mind here that linus here is using the M.2 SSD port for the EXP GDC egpu and not the ngff/mini-pcie port that used by the wifi.The exp gdc through the m.2 port is not the common standard while using the exp gdc. Its not recommended. The cable is the most expensive, and the chance of it working is the lowest compared to using the exp gdc through the mini-pcie/ngff slot.
hey sorry for late reply, what do you think the performance difference is from NGFF vs thunderbolt vs m.2?
Intel Core i5 7200U
RAM 8GB
Intel HD Graphics 620
So relatable
I3-8130u
6gb of Ram
Intel UHD 620
...that's what my laptop has
@ i do have a proper gaming machine with a 1050 ti as well, I was just listing off my laptop specs.
@@TomBom292 can you tell me what laptop you have and I need a laptop like yours.
Thanks
@@rubenreut5663 It's an Acer Aspire E 15 E5-576-392H. About one of the cheapest laptops available with these specs.
Today the cheap and painless way is a ADT R43SG (several models) and a mini pc or laptop. the gdc and an older laptop can be difficult. best with new bios, they seem to support it out of the box now
0:29
*me before i knew that its impossible to fit a graphics card into a laptop*
As someone with a plug in kidney sitting next to his body, I find that analogy not so strange at all (;
edit: fixed spelling
I suppose it is relatable?
Patrick Keller tl;dr: dialysis, amirite?
rite
hope you get well mate
Lol
I bought a 8 dollar gpu adapter off ebay and tested it and it works with my hd 5770. Worked on my hp laptop. In heaven benchmark I got about 60 fps on 720p instead of 10 fps
What GPU was it?
@@mandelllouissaint5601 If you mean in the laptop it was an AMD R5 Graphics.
One of these, I presume? www.ebay.com/itm/MINI-PCI-E-TO-X16-PCIE-RISER-ADAPTER-GRAPHICS-CARD-PLUS-TO-LAPTOP/263078482873?hash=item3d40b313b9:g:~h0AAOSwFqNZRWuT
My laptop looking at me after the video: NO GOD PLEASE NO (yes it is a The Office reference)
How to put gpu in my Nokia
Smash it open and then.... wait u cant nvm it's impossible
Bro same, I wanna play snake on ultra high graphics
@@Oliver-cg5ud lol XD
Bluethooth conexion
@@mohammedaminehandi9392 lol
I can vouch I ran the Express card version years ago so I've been entirely unimpressed with current GPU enclosures as this is all old to me.
Could it be that the M.2 Slot only has sata connectons and no pcie?
I was thinking the same.
He probably checked that, naive not to.
It is actually NGFF port not M.2 or it is a M.2 port with A and E key on it 😂🤦♂️
Was literally thinking the same thing. Older laptops are likely to have a NGFF SATA slot and not PCIe. You're actually more likely to succeed with the wifi card slot since it HAS to be PCIe.
Edit: Adding on, some BIOS will actually whitelist specific PCI devices too. I have an old Lenovo that I had to have someone patch the BIOS when I wanted to upgrade from an N card to an AC card.
Nvidia 10xx series won't work with that setup.
Source: egpu.io/external-gpu-buyers-guide-2018/#m2-interface
I’m doing this with a cheaper PCI riser because no graphics card will fit in my pc because it’s a compact unit.
soooooo the solution is to buy a laptop wich has a good gpu already
Diogo Fontes or a desktop...
Or laptops with upgradable/changeable graphics such as Clevo or MSI Titan series often are.
or buy laptop and gigabyte game box :D Much better is wait, save money and get whole gaming laptop. Video is useless or for advertisment purpouse...
Acer predator triton 700 already has a beast gpu😅😅
Some of us have Titan cards laying around.... :)
Now do how to add more RAM to an un-upgradable laptop.
The Astro Gamer I mean you can do it to any laptop but it will most definitely void your warranty and would take so.e wandering and really careful removal
The Astro Gamer just download more ram duh
oh that's easy, there will be a RAM to ethernet adapter direct connection 9.8 version XP
Aiden Lebel Are you stupid or are you joking?
Just get a Thinkpad from the start.
0:45 Linus's transitions to sponsors have always been great
Going back to an old video now that I have a laptop and I forgot how bad the ad segways used to be.
Why don't you use the mini-pcie version and use a USB wifi card instead?
That's a pretty good idea
Exactly what I did when I had this
Cause usb wifi dongles are shitty and slow and the good ones are expensive and it takes up a usb port
Just A Person Do you know something called an ethernet port exists if you want speedy internet?
Pcie 1x through mini-pcie
Sounds good doesn't work
Classic Chillout facts
Lil Norto watch the whole video, they failed and clickbaited us
Just like Communism!
I have no idea why he struggled so much..
It took me 3 minutes to set up on my MSI laptop..
No bios updates, no nothing ..
Flawless startup and games worked straight up..
I went the pcie route not the nvme though ..
^^
Using same minipcie to usb3 to pciex16 method. Only problem i found is gtx 10 series cards wouldnt even let me post into bios. Didnt have a decent gtx 9xx card so now im using a hd6670 to get a third Monitor
A little bit Intellectual That sounds like an update to the bios would fix it :) if you haven’t already tried that :)
inthemonye , I have the cx61 and I’m running a gtx970, I’ll be moving on up in gpu’s soon as I’ve tested a 1070 (friend has one) and works perfectly aswell..
Christoffer Oleander Nielsen my shitty hp laptop bios is afaik up to the newest version. But i will Check that.
I'm from the future, during the bearded era of Linus, and the face in this video is a shock. I forgot about this version with the socks and sandals and what not.
also from the future, this Beast Pci-e adapter saved my laptop and provided me with a powerful gaming machine after my internal gpu died.
Yessss!!!! Now I can play Purble place on my laptop
Thang Sang underrated comment
@@JussJacobbb ikr
@@karunarayathapa2132 haha true
Oh my god..I used to play that when I was younger..
0:31- How do you put one of these into one of these?
The answer is one of these
It's been a while since I've binge watched Linus videos, I'm kind of off and on, I'll start binge-watching him for a month or so, lose interest, then come back to him again in like 2 months, but if I wear asked to pick just one thing I love about this channel, is that you keep your intro plugs around 10 seconds long.
While this sounds like an arbitrary thing, it is insanely smart, most phones nowadays allow you to skip 10 seconds if you double tap the right side of your screen really quick, and is what I would assume a lot of us do anytime a sponsor plug is played in a video, we just double tap until we are skipped through it, because we're binge-watching content and want to get to the point, but, most of the time we overshoot or undershoot and have to find where the sponsor plug actually ends, Linus keeping it at 10 seconds on all of his videos means one double tap and we're into the content.
Underated comment
We need laptops with dedicated ports for external gpu connection and external gpus designed for these laptops.
Me: Looks at his computer Also me: *sigh*
"More lanes than a 2-lane highway"
- Linus 2018
0:12 This dude just cheered on a cut scene like it was something he finally accomplished after many failed attempts...
Linus: We tried...Bios Update, Disabling Integrated GPU, New / Old Drivers, New / Old Graphics Cards... It just won't work!
Me: Did you try an external monitor........ mic drop.
'tHe cHeAp WAy'
Well some people define "cheap" differently
700$ is fine. It will just set your wallet on fire
Why does it say "SATA" right under that m.2 slot?
Because IT IS SATA!
Evil Gremlin i think it supports sata m.2 drives but I don’t really know
its most likely m.2 sata and not true m.2 pci-e
Because it is and Linus forgot not all m.2 are pci-e so he's confused that he can't get a GPU to work over sata...lol
Geric John Olivar the e in pci-e already stands for express
I had an eGPU GTX760 via Express Card and an od HP Elitebook2760p. It worked, was a lot of work but for 3 years this was the only way for me to play with my friends. You need to research a lot before you go buy it. But there are a lot of informations out there how it works, you can ask in the forums anything they are truely awesome people there. And there are even other brands making this adapter ( the one you were using i only heard bad things back when i set everything up).
But last week I bought a Asus GL503VM with a GTX1060 and its so f*** awesome xD Only cost 1200€ lol
no joke my laptop actually just blue screened after they said "Plug it into an internal port"
AAAAAAAAAND now the price skyrockets because Linus made a video about it, at least i got one for $25 last year.
Tunnelbear :(
What happend?
Michał Szczepański iirc, tunnelbear was bought by McAffee ?
Michał Szczepański TunnelBear was acquired by McAfee.
sameer mohideen press F to pay respects
tunnelbear was captured by McAfee
Instructions unclear, I now have a gpu stick stuck in my toaster.
What😳😳😳
but it runs doom
he forgot to include the wireless wifi usb so you can geta wifi signal
The PIA robot is more trustworthy than any bear
how come? what was wrong with the bear?
nice.
Person IsUnique Oh, so that's why there is so much blood in my stool.
8:20 Finally, a solution for my aging problem
5 years later after this shit was invented he finally does a video on this
TheOddSpartan lol
And still don't know how to do this.
And he fail to get it to work, on my first try i got it to work and thats is a 5-7 years old computer.
I used the pci-express port instead
Andreas Danielsson he should have not made this video until he got it to work. It hurts his credibility somewhat.
he's telling us the compatibility is not great with every laptop, and he got it to work with a desktop so yeah he got it to work
the background music you put is basically the coffin dance song
well done reading the future linus
LMAAAO
How to add GPU to Laptop:
Step 1. Cut a hole in a box
You should make a tutorial on how to convert a laptop into a desktop
Тм Тм I have a desktop PC with a Ryzen 1700 and a 1060 but I have a laptop with an AMD A8 and 8gbs of ram. I want to use it as a server for video games and along that line. But it gets super hot and I want to cool it down. So I wanna put it in an old PC case of mine and throw on an old 120mm server radiator I have but I'm not sure how to. I'm probably gonna end up making it about as ghetto as the liquid cooling cheaper than an AIO lol
To convert a laptop to a desktop, just take it off your lap and place it on the desk.
James Nguyen lol
get some thermally conductive epoxi or adhesive, glue a normal radiator onto your CPU and support the radiator with a custom built framework so it sits tight after the glue hardens. Put a slow spinning fan on the radiator and built your case around it however you like. There you go.
Scitch87 thanks that's a really good idea. I was gonna just put some thermal paste and zip it down to the mobo and try and put it in the case while finding a way to use the fan like possibly splicing it to USB or using it to replace the CPU fan
Worth a try?
RandomFlatShowsvideos nop
i've been using it for about 6 months. If you really have no another choice, its worth giving it a chance. But you wont get top performance cause PCIE x1. Some games handle this really well, most not.
Worth it if you're a poor gamer and if you can take your laptop apart without breaking it then yes I watched several videos about this and I must say it's pretty darn good
RandomFlatShowsvideos oo
Well I've been using the exp gdc, with a 1050ti, had to do that ddu thing where you boot into safe mode use ddu and uninstall your gpu driver's then install a custom older driver that originally didn't supporting the 1050 to but after the modification it does and after that u restart and u can get the latest driver's and it's still going strong for me
This channel and his team is one of the best that i ever seen on youtube. Excellent Job guys.
Mistakes were made.
Jaina vs Gul'dan!
Starting from you?
Nah
we'll get em next time
i read this comment in Mayor Quimby's voice
I like your stuff BUT: missleadig headline: it suggests that you indeed were successful, but you were not!
Everytime Linus says *'bUt'* I can feel my heart stop.
Bro same
It feels like you are sponsoring the beast more than you are sponsoring pia.
I had great success with the smart card variety on my enterprise laptop while I was scrimping to build my PC. I bought my GPU, PSU, and the beast first; played on that for about 6 mo waiting for a bonus at work, then bought the rest and assembled the system. I was out $80 for the beast at the end, but it was worth it to play Arma 3 and Fall Out in the interm. Would recommend as a temporary solution if you research on the forums first to verify compatibility and get lucky that it will all work.
Why did you even assemble a pc when the laptop egpu setup worked? :D How much did the frames go up when the GPU was in the PC? I have a Dell Optiplex 390 PC with a GTX 960 in it and a Dell e6430 that i'm thinking of trying out with a egpu setup.
3:26 you unintentionally described my mothers replacement heart setup she had temporarily,i laughed when you almost to the tee even had your hands placed where hers was lol
Damn bro
I'm sorry
I hope she's ok!
4:41
Way to go insulting my GPU's successor!
Video title: Put a Desktop GPU in a LAPTOP… The CHEAP WAY!
Video content: You can't.
I’m surprised they never came up with a standard for external pcie connections, similar to esata (i.e. it’s basically the raw slot made external in a suitable way).
I know there would be limitations but it may still be suitable for e.g. external gpus.
What is thunderbolt
@@Kuri0 IIRC/AFAIK Thunderbolt still requires a separate controller to PCI-E/cost (depending on the CPU) and from when I last looked at it had limitations/performance loss in comparison to using an actual PCI-E slot.
Bearing in mind we’re talking about a post I made a while back, I was likely thinking of something to externalise a full x16 slot with as few limitations/cost as possible, hence my comparison to esata which from my experience is just a physical change.
Mhhhhh i did with an old intel Core Duo Laptop and it worked. Pulled the wifi card out and put the ebay thing in and wushhhh magic it worked
it is swap-able .. it's just a cable .. mine has the PCIe and nvme .. the connector in the laptop used dictates speed, the actual beast just goes with whatever is given to it..
Crazy times here in late 2021. Love watching these older videos. Crazy how much more powerful the GPU’s are now vs then. Unbelievable. It’s a shame you can’t get a graphics card through a retailer. You have to get it from a scalper.
You're right man, its crazy how much GPU's are if you can even get one.......
Sad times we live in
Hopefully this shortage in silicon will pass over.
Tfw when the retailer is the scalper too. Fucking damn it
They'll get cheaper again soon is my guess. The hype around crypto and crypto-mining is beginning to fall and so will the prices for gpus.
My Lenovo T530 has two Mini-PCIe Slots and one ExpressCard Slot. No .2 Slots. Should I connect it via Mini-PCIe oder ExpressCard?
3:45
Was linus using the some kind of Coffin meme music remix, or have I watched one to many videos?
no your right lol
it are to be said that even with the WiFi mostly occupying the mini-PCIe it are easy to offer for the greater good.
why? because you mostly can get a ultra tiny USB WiFi that more or less will be faster than what was installed.
If you could make a 'breakaway' M.2 cable always connected internally, but disconnectable in maybe the optical drive slot (taped to keep in place); to be able to reconnect much quicker and conveniently each time you're ready to game.
I love these old videos that feature the old(better) intro as well as no store plugs and the sponser segway is better