External GPU through ExpressCard slot for HP Pavilion dv6846tx Notebook PC?

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Dev Roy

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Hi All,

I have HP Pavilion laptop and its graphic card has faulted. Initially I was looking to replace the graphic card but looks like it is integrated and I may have to replace the whole motherboard as service center said. That is when I started to look for alternative solution and learnt about egpu. But I am not very clear about all the technical details that I found in various blogs and therefore thought of asking experts like you for help.

My laptop has one ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34) and looks like I can go for PE4L-EC060A V2.1 but wanted to check before I place the order.
http://www.bplus.com.tw/Adapter/PE4L%20V2.1.html
In the above link I guess the price is little high, is there any other brand that costs ~100$, without significant compromise on the quality?

My laptop sepcs can be found in the below link FYR:
https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/05/FF377PA.htm

Could you please advise which graphics card I should go for? I am not a hardcore gamer however I work on Corel Draw, Photoshop, Lightroom etc, sometime I open these apps parallely and at times file size turns as big as 300MB. I have 4 GB of RAM and with my existing configuration it used to be very slow and sometimes I had to close all app in order to avoid hung state.

Thanks,
Dev
 
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k1114
No one buys the PE4 adapters for a long while anymore because many cheaper ones have popped up. The exp gdc is the common one. But given the age of your laptop, unless you have a spare psu and gpu already, you can probably just get another laptop for similar price that would be better. Or even a tablet depending on the use.
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I don't think you could even boot up from the external GPU without the main one working. The little experience I had with those is that it used drivers and was setup in Windows, and if you can't get to Windows, well.

That seems like a very, very, very old laptop. Considering you'd be spending $100 on that adapter, than a box for it, PSU, and a GPU, you could probably buy a used laptop for the same price that is 10x faster than that thing is.
 
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Dev Roy

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Thanks for your response. Agree it is very old laptop, almost ~7 years. My main graphics card is allowing me to boot up, its just that colors are distorted and texts are hazy etc. But eventually if it dies then do you mean I wont be able to boot my laptop from external gpu? I was assuming motherboard will be able to detect the egpu during the boot process like it detects the booting devices.

I was also thinking to occasionally use the graphic card on another laptop that I have for multimedia related work.
 
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No one buys the PE4 adapters for a long while anymore because many cheaper ones have popped up. The exp gdc is the common one. But given the age of your laptop, unless you have a spare psu and gpu already, you can probably just get another laptop for similar price that would be better. Or even a tablet depending on the use.
 
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Dev Roy

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Thank you all for your suggestions. I think I should be good with exp gdc instead as I already have a gpu and psu.
 
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