alienware graphics amplifier bottlenecking

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so I've decided to go with the alienware 17 with the gtx 1050 ti and i7 7700hq with 16 gigs of ram the main reason i chose this was because of the graphics amplifier i do a lot of casual gaming so i chose the base spec but sometimes i play AAA titles, so i am planing to put a gtx 1070 in the amplifier but my major concern is will the connection bottle neck the card's performance because i read some articles online on this but none of them seem to give a straight answer so any help or advice would be appreciated.

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No game should be unplayable with a 1050, so long as you drop the graphical settings a bit. That will only be the case if you insist on keeping things maxed. Why not try the 1050 first and see if you're satisfied, and then get the external enclosure later if you feel moving the graphical sliders up a few notches is worth the rough $600 price tag of enclosure + card?
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The Alienware Graphics Amplifier uses a thunderbolt cable to transfer data
-however the underlying tech in the amplifier itself supports pcie3.0 x4

That "graphics amplifier" has a speed roughly on par with PCIE 1.0 x16 transfer speed; which would bottleneck that card by about 16% MAX

surprising? shouldn't be. PCI-E 3.0 is basically pointless for gpus, there just isn't enough data going back and forth between them and the motherboard. it's much more useful for things like SSDs. Short answer yes there will be a bit of a dropoff from the external enclosure, long answer is it still will be MUCH better then that mobile gtx1050ti, and it won't be a huge dropoff.


I think you're misreading it. The laptop comes with the mobile 1050ti, he's getting an external enclosure for a 1070.
 
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What I meant was the gtx 1050 is in the laptop and I would l put the gtx 1070 in the amplifier and use it when games with laptop gpu (gtx 1050) start to lag or become unplayable and no I did not buy it yet
 
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No game should be unplayable with a 1050, so long as you drop the graphical settings a bit. That will only be the case if you insist on keeping things maxed. Why not try the 1050 first and see if you're satisfied, and then get the external enclosure later if you feel moving the graphical sliders up a few notches is worth the rough $600 price tag of enclosure + card?
 
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