- Nov 9, 2013
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Hi people!
I know there are ways to hook up an external graphics card to an old laptop. However I do NOT want to tamper with the inside of my laptop. I simply want to be able to plug it in, download the drivers and move on. Thus I thought of a possible solution and was wondering if this was possible.
At home I have an old graphics card and an old power supply: A Radeon HD 7750 1gb and a 300 watt ATX Power Suppl.
I also have a monitor that I can use for this method. However I was thinking that instead of buying the external graphics card dock that may or may not work, I can buy a cheap intel mobo online and use an old case I have kicking about at home. I will then plug the psu and gpu into the mobo and put the mobo into a nice small form factor case. I will then use an HDMI cable to plug the graphics card machine box into my laptop and it should work.
Would this be a good solution? Or am I just dreaming? Here are my laptop specs by the way in case you need them: i3 3200U, 4gb ram, intel hd 4000 graphics, windows 8.
Many thanks in advance!!
I know there are ways to hook up an external graphics card to an old laptop. However I do NOT want to tamper with the inside of my laptop. I simply want to be able to plug it in, download the drivers and move on. Thus I thought of a possible solution and was wondering if this was possible.
At home I have an old graphics card and an old power supply: A Radeon HD 7750 1gb and a 300 watt ATX Power Suppl.
I also have a monitor that I can use for this method. However I was thinking that instead of buying the external graphics card dock that may or may not work, I can buy a cheap intel mobo online and use an old case I have kicking about at home. I will then plug the psu and gpu into the mobo and put the mobo into a nice small form factor case. I will then use an HDMI cable to plug the graphics card machine box into my laptop and it should work.
Would this be a good solution? Or am I just dreaming? Here are my laptop specs by the way in case you need them: i3 3200U, 4gb ram, intel hd 4000 graphics, windows 8.
Many thanks in advance!!
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