Using the graphics card from another laptop

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DarvoIsBoss

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So here's my problem: I have a pretty good laptop I used for gaming, but the graphics card fried, so I can't update the drivers without it crashing on me, I was wondering, since I have a spare laptop, if I could connect laptop number 1 (main laptop) to laptop number 2 (spare laptop) and utilize the graphics card on laptop number 2 while using the other components on laptop number 1, so I can play games on laptop number 1 again without having to buy a new graphics card. Thanks in advance.
 
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No I don't think you can do that. If laptop 2 has an input, you could send your image from laptop 1's output to laptop 2's input, but that only allows you to use laptop 2's screen. All processing, CPU and GPU, is done on the sending laptop, laptop 1 in this case.

There are a lot of practical reasons for this, latency for one. Imagine the performance hit if all graphics data has to be sent from one computer to the other before processing could start!
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dontlistentome

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No I don't think you can do that. If laptop 2 has an input, you could send your image from laptop 1's output to laptop 2's input, but that only allows you to use laptop 2's screen. All processing, CPU and GPU, is done on the sending laptop, laptop 1 in this case.

There are a lot of practical reasons for this, latency for one. Imagine the performance hit if all graphics data has to be sent from one computer to the other before processing could start!
 
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