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Is there a way to connect a Nvidia GEFORCE GT 710 to my Inspiron 14 5000 Series even with the lid open?
Hi!
I have a DELL Inspiron 14 5000 Series, and as I am building a new computer, a spare MSI Nvidia GEFORCE GT 710.
Is there a way to connect the GPU (Nvidia GEFORCE) to my Dell, even if I have to keep my bottom lid open?
jphughan
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December 31st, 2017 21:00
When you say "bottom lid", do you mean the underside panel that exposes hardware like the RAM modules, hard drive, etc? That's not really a good idea, but the only way to get a desktop GPU connected to a laptop is to put the desktop GPU into a PCIe enclosure that connects to your system either via a ribbon cable that plugs into a spare M.2 slot inside your PC (if you have a spare one) or via Thunderbolt 3. The Akitio Node is a Thunderbolt 3 external GPU enclosure, for example. But I don't think the Inspiron 14 5000 has any M.2 slots at all or Thunderbolt 3, although even if it did, that's still not a guarantee that the system would actually work properly with an external GPU.
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January 1st, 2018 06:00
No way - no how.