External Gpu with core 2 duo laptop
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Supernova1138
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Your problem is going to be a huge bottleneck on whatever interface you use to connect the external card. A laptop that old is only going to have old and slow interfaces like USB 2.0. To run an external GPU you need a really fast interface like USB 3.0 or 3.1 or Thunderbolt just to avoid a big bottleneck there. Even if you got around that problem your CPU would really slow things down. I'd say forget about it and save up to build an entirely new system.
hang-the-9
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Outside of just the fact that the CPU is too slow to keep up with a 1060 by a few generations, the interface of the external card adapter will also bottleneck the card. If you want a cheap way to play CSGO, buy a used desktop tower with an Intel i3 or i5 CPU (I like the HP, Dell or Lenovo tower business systems, you will get a legal Windows license and a decent quality power supply), and get a low-mid video card like the RX 460 or the new nVidia 1050. Should be about $250 for the setup, maybe 300.
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