For a number of reasons, it's not a practical upgrade.
1. You will wind up with a pile of disassembled parts, relegating your notebook to use as a desktop (you won't be able to close up the system with the card in place, as there is nowhere to route cables inside the system).
2. The slot is designed for a wireless card - it will severely limit the performance of a GPU as a result.
3. You will need an external display (the GPU won't feed the internal one), along with an external keyboard and mouse, since the internal ones will be left unusable in your pile of parts.
You essentially end up with a non-mobile former notebook computer as a disassembled desktop.
Given the cost of an eGPU and the performance issues, if you want a desktop system, buy one -- keep the notebook for portable use. You don't necessarily need a new desktop -- a used one will cost little more than the eGPU, and fully support a PCIe GPU running at full speed, which the notebook hack job never will.
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For a number of reasons, it's not a practical upgrade.
1. You will wind up with a pile of disassembled parts, relegating your notebook to use as a desktop (you won't be able to close up the system with the card in place, as there is nowhere to route cables inside the system).
2. The slot is designed for a wireless card - it will severely limit the performance of a GPU as a result.
3. You will need an external display (the GPU won't feed the internal one), along with an external keyboard and mouse, since the internal ones will be left unusable in your pile of parts.
You essentially end up with a non-mobile former notebook computer as a disassembled desktop.
Given the cost of an eGPU and the performance issues, if you want a desktop system, buy one -- keep the notebook for portable use. You don't necessarily need a new desktop -- a used one will cost little more than the eGPU, and fully support a PCIe GPU running at full speed, which the notebook hack job never will.