can i use and external Nvidia graphics card on dell inspiron n5110

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TStahler
The only way to alleviate most of a bottleneck of using external graphics is to open up the laptop and connect another wire to an internal mini PCIe slot- that's tedious to undo and redo every time you want to hook it up for games if you move the laptop often, to say the least. It also assumes that the laptop has a spare mini PCIe slot, granted this is usually true.

I recommend replacing your laptop with one with a decent graphics option. I recently bought a laptop for $450 that maxes out the setting for WoW no problem at its native resolution of 1366x768. You can even sell your current laptop to help with the cost.

It'd probably be better than spending say $100 on the adapter, $50 to $75 on a power supply, and probably another $75...
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I looked at system specs for your machine and it should come with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M - 1GB. If your model only has integrated graphics, External graphics solutions are often hard to get, expensive, and generally don't perform very well. You would honestly be better off with a new laptop that has better graphics performance than trying to upgrade the graphics on your old one.

 
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The only way to alleviate most of a bottleneck of using external graphics is to open up the laptop and connect another wire to an internal mini PCIe slot- that's tedious to undo and redo every time you want to hook it up for games if you move the laptop often, to say the least. It also assumes that the laptop has a spare mini PCIe slot, granted this is usually true.

I recommend replacing your laptop with one with a decent graphics option. I recently bought a laptop for $450 that maxes out the setting for WoW no problem at its native resolution of 1366x768. You can even sell your current laptop to help with the cost.

It'd probably be better than spending say $100 on the adapter, $50 to $75 on a power supply, and probably another $75 to $100 on a graphics card for a solution that *might* work, and if it does, it *might* work well enough to use. Let's not forget a case that you'd probably want for all of that external hardware. That might be another $30 to around $70. I would not be comfortable with a minimum estimated purchase of about $250 for something like this that carries such risks and I most certainly am not comfortable with recommending it.
 
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