PCIE x16 EGPU + laptops

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Max Guymer

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Hi, I'm currently in a dilemma where I need a lightweight, portable laptop as I travel a lot within my profession (one with a powerful processor). But I also want to have a pc that can play games in high/ultra graphics. I currently have a budget of £1000-1200 and realised that I can't really do both and meet my standards, so I started researching into egpus and found some decent ones for £30-50 (they would need to be x16 pcie ports obviously) but my main question here is how do I find a laptop that would be compatible with a x16 pcie egpu, most websites I find don't state whether a laptop has a mini pcie slot that would be compatible. And also what laptops would you recommend? Any help would be appreciated!
 
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The only situations where an egpu is even worth considering is an older laptop that you already have or a hobby type of project. It may sound great to have a single system to move around and then dock for more performance but it's just not worth it. Even if the tb enclosures were cheaper or you have money to burn, it's going to be less performance because of the small form factor laptop. I don't even see it has a hassle to have separate systems.
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An egpu is neither lightweight nor portable. You're turning it into a pseudo desktop with a gpu, psu and external monitor. Not to mention having to take the bottom of the laptop off to get to the mpcie slot. You get better performance with a laptop that has a dgpu already plus it will be more lightweight and portable.
 
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For that money you should be able to get a gtx 1060 laptop. It's good enough to play games at high-ultra 1080p 60 fps. An egpu is not portable at all you'll basically be carrying around a whole desktop pc at all times.
 
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Max Guymer

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Just to clarify, I'm not planning on taking the egpu with me when I'm working, I was planning to build an enclosure for the egpu and then plugging the laptop into that whenever I'm home, yeah It would involve taking the back of the laptop off, but I'm not incredibly bothered about that.
 
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Max Guymer

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Honestly this list is a life saver, the reason I even opted for an egpu is because of how hard I was finding it to try and find compatible thunderbolt laptops for the thunderbolt gpu enclosure
 
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Max Guymer

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Ah, that's a shame, just saw the prices of the thunderbolt enclosures lol, I could get a half decent laptop for the price of one of those
 
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The only situations where an egpu is even worth considering is an older laptop that you already have or a hobby type of project. It may sound great to have a single system to move around and then dock for more performance but it's just not worth it. Even if the tb enclosures were cheaper or you have money to burn, it's going to be less performance because of the small form factor laptop. I don't even see it has a hassle to have separate systems.
 
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