hello
i have recently bought an advanced dock for my thinkpad, and i would like to buy a graphics card for it
sadly there are some restrictions:
-the bus is only pcie x1 but has the full x16 length so any card can fit
-there are limitations in size too, something around this card: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/336/1/
-consumption must not exceed 50 watts (preferably stay below that at least 5-7 watts
currently i have a firegl v5250 in the notebook with 256 mbytes of ram (more specific here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T60p )
it performs rather well with older games, but newer games stress the gpu up to 90 degrees celsius, so i would like to save the gpu for mobile usage, and use only the docking stations video card
but it is obviously not a gaming card
i was thinking with going with the low end HD 4xxx 5xxx 6xxx video cards as the have pretty low price but i dont know if they can outperform the built in firegl despite the x1 pcie bus
thank you
i have recently bought an advanced dock for my thinkpad, and i would like to buy a graphics card for it
sadly there are some restrictions:
-the bus is only pcie x1 but has the full x16 length so any card can fit
-there are limitations in size too, something around this card: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/336/1/
-consumption must not exceed 50 watts (preferably stay below that at least 5-7 watts
currently i have a firegl v5250 in the notebook with 256 mbytes of ram (more specific here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T60p )
it performs rather well with older games, but newer games stress the gpu up to 90 degrees celsius, so i would like to save the gpu for mobile usage, and use only the docking stations video card
but it is obviously not a gaming card
i was thinking with going with the low end HD 4xxx 5xxx 6xxx video cards as the have pretty low price but i dont know if they can outperform the built in firegl despite the x1 pcie bus
thank you