I've got a laptop which used to have a Pentium B940 in it. That's a Sandy Bridge Pentium running at 2.0GHz. I upgraded the processor to an i7-2640m which is still a dual-core but it has 2.8GHZ base clock and boosts to 3.2 on both cores, and 3.5 on one. It also has everyone's best friend, Hyperthreading. I would have gotten a physically quad core i7 but I didn't trust the extra 10 watts on my motherboard.
I'm trying to find a graphics card to connect externally to my laptop. I have a mini PCIe connector being used for a wifi card, so I can use that slot. I will find parts to connect the gpu to my laptop myself, but I don't know which gpu to choose. I need something the won't bottleneck the CPU but is efficient. I want to use Pascal because those cards are the most efficient at the moment. I considered a 1030 but I feel like it won't be strong enough for all cases. But I don't know how effective my CPU is for any sort of gaming. Experience tells me it isn't that great. But I know for sure that my iGPU is a bottleneck here just from the fact that it will be maxed out and pumping heat through the fans when the CPU cores are only at 60-70% usage.
So, suggestions on graphics cards?
I'm trying to find a graphics card to connect externally to my laptop. I have a mini PCIe connector being used for a wifi card, so I can use that slot. I will find parts to connect the gpu to my laptop myself, but I don't know which gpu to choose. I need something the won't bottleneck the CPU but is efficient. I want to use Pascal because those cards are the most efficient at the moment. I considered a 1030 but I feel like it won't be strong enough for all cases. But I don't know how effective my CPU is for any sort of gaming. Experience tells me it isn't that great. But I know for sure that my iGPU is a bottleneck here just from the fact that it will be maxed out and pumping heat through the fans when the CPU cores are only at 60-70% usage.
So, suggestions on graphics cards?
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