Here @BrendanMD I'll make it easy for you. The Razer Core X Chroma can supply up to 100W of power to an attached laptop (more than enough for your system) and has 4x USB ports and Gigabit Ethernet built in. If those 4 USB ports aren't enough, then you can just get a USB 3.0 hub and connect that to the eGPU enclosure. So at that point you've got laptop power, USB, displays (through the GPU itself), and Ethernet all covered. Pretty much the only things you're missing compared to a regular Dell dock are a 3.5mm headset/speaker jack if you need one for your non-USB equipment -- and if so, that can be solved with a USB audio adapter like this one -- and a dock Power button allowing you to control the power state of the system. And I guess USB-C data ports if those are really important to you. But if you can live without that Power button and USB-C data port, then ditch the WD19, get a Razer Core X Chroma, and call it a day.
If the system has a Thunderbolt port, an external GPU may work -- the key to understanding the "may" is that it's not a supported-by-Dell peripheral, and there is a wide variation on these third-party devices. Some work, some don't - some work with particular GPUs and not others, etc. It's try it and see.
Also note that for best performance, these devices need to be used with an external monitor directly connected to the eGPU device.
The only external GPU officially supported by Dell is that for Alienware systems - the Alienware graphics amplifier. Anything else is unsupported.
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@BrendanMD You need Thunderbolt 3 for an eGPU, and I believe TB3 was optional on that model. If you don't have it, your only other option would be a bridge card that plugs into an M.2 slot on the underside of your system. But most systems only have M.2 cards for the SSD and WiFi, so you'd be giving up one of those, and a WiFi M.2 slot only has a PCIe x1 interface, which will create a bottleneck, and you have the issue that you can't really close the underside of your laptop anymore.
@BrendanMD If you get a Thunderbolt dock like the WD19TB, it has a "downstream TB3" connector allowing you to connect a Thunderbolt peripheral to it, like an eGPU enclosure. Or some eGPU enclosures include power delivery, USB ports, etc., so you might find that between the displays being connected to the eGPU and other peripherals being connected to the enclosure's extra ports, you have enough docking station functionality for your purposes without a regular dock.
I have a dell latitude and i'm using a dongle for an egpu witch it goes were the wifi card is and i have it all setup right and when i turn my laptop on the fan on the gpu spins but it does not detect it in the device manager
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Here @BrendanMD I'll make it easy for you. The Razer Core X Chroma can supply up to 100W of power to an attached laptop (more than enough for your system) and has 4x USB ports and Gigabit Ethernet built in. If those 4 USB ports aren't enough, then you can just get a USB 3.0 hub and connect that to the eGPU enclosure. So at that point you've got laptop power, USB, displays (through the GPU itself), and Ethernet all covered. Pretty much the only things you're missing compared to a regular Dell dock are a 3.5mm headset/speaker jack if you need one for your non-USB equipment -- and if so, that can be solved with a USB audio adapter like this one -- and a dock Power button allowing you to control the power state of the system. And I guess USB-C data ports if those are really important to you. But if you can live without that Power button and USB-C data port, then ditch the WD19, get a Razer Core X Chroma, and call it a day.
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If the system has a Thunderbolt port, an external GPU may work -- the key to understanding the "may" is that it's not a supported-by-Dell peripheral, and there is a wide variation on these third-party devices. Some work, some don't - some work with particular GPUs and not others, etc. It's try it and see.
Also note that for best performance, these devices need to be used with an external monitor directly connected to the eGPU device.
The only external GPU officially supported by Dell is that for Alienware systems - the Alienware graphics amplifier. Anything else is unsupported.
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@BrendanMD You need Thunderbolt 3 for an eGPU, and I believe TB3 was optional on that model. If you don't have it, your only other option would be a bridge card that plugs into an M.2 slot on the underside of your system. But most systems only have M.2 cards for the SSD and WiFi, so you'd be giving up one of those, and a WiFi M.2 slot only has a PCIe x1 interface, which will create a bottleneck, and you have the issue that you can't really close the underside of your laptop anymore.
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Thanks for the replies. My single laptop thunderbolt port is occupied by the dock connection. Looks like I am out of luck.
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@BrendanMD If you get a Thunderbolt dock like the WD19TB, it has a "downstream TB3" connector allowing you to connect a Thunderbolt peripheral to it, like an eGPU enclosure. Or some eGPU enclosures include power delivery, USB ports, etc., so you might find that between the displays being connected to the eGPU and other peripherals being connected to the enclosure's extra ports, you have enough docking station functionality for your purposes without a regular dock.
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Thanks so much!
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I have a dell latitude and i'm using a dongle for an egpu witch it goes were the wifi card is and i have it all setup right and when i turn my laptop on the fan on the gpu spins but it does not detect it in the device manager