The Taipei Game Show is well underway way in Taiwan and something on the show floor has caught our eye: Gigabyte's latest invention, the notebook with external GPU docking station.
A few months back, Gigabyte announced the M1405 that came complete with a docking station that gave you more USB ports and HDMI and DVI, but also tacked on an Nvidia GeForce GT220 with 1GB of discrete to your machine.
CNet's Nicholas Aaron Khoo has spotted the M1405 in Taiwan and managed to get a few sneaky pictures and a video.
Specs for the device go a little something like this:
- 14-inch, 1366 x 768 resolution TFT LED
- Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300
- Up to 4GB memory and 500GB storage
- DVD
- Windows 7
- Intel GMA 4500MHD in addition to the external GeForce GT220
Check out the pictures and video below.
Gigabyte M1405 Spotted
The GPU might only have a PCIe x1 connection to the graphics. If it does, then anything faster than the GT220 will be bandwidth limited. Now, if they used the new intel CPUs with integrated graphics when undocked and then used the available PCIe x16 lanes for the external GPU (if such a mobile chipset allows this and exists), then that would be nice!