Anyone else think this will be the future of computing?
>have a ultra slim laptop, great for doing shit on the go and never being too heavy and get in the way
>once home, you can simply plug in the usb c cables and have a capable gaming machine.
No need to compromise
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no its retarded
No, because then the bottleneck becomes the CPU.
>plug in cables
How quaint, son, have you never heard of or used a docking station?
Why stop at a GPU
I could see a future with expanded pcie/tb storage, networking, etc...
Ubuntu phone was a sneak peek of what is to come
Just dock your device in its cradle, and it becomes a powerful desktop computer
Maybe a hybrid device like the padfone
Does usb type c have enough bandwidth for two CPUs to talk to each other?
It's a solution fraught with compromise as is. The latency over Thunderbolt equates to both lower and less stable performance. And your CPU, being a laptop CPU, is unable to feed the GPU the data it needs, nor manage the computations necessary for the burgeoning number of games relying on AI.
Can't see it being anything other than a niche product anytime in the next decade.
the future is having a smartphone and not having a pc
PCIE is high lag and medium bandwidth. you dont have to know about optane to know RAM slots (not current gen tho) are far superior for installing non-volatile memory. try running an external cable to that.
Laptops are still a performance compromise and will always be.
It'd be nice. Still a few years away, given how shit and slow to develop thunderbolt is.
Laptop CPU's don't compare to a 16 core workstation processor.
My next laptop (i.e. my next Macbook) I'll definately be buying it with an eGPU in mind.
My current one had Thunderbolt but I think it's the slower version that makes the gains marginal, especially once you include loop-back to the internal display.
Here's you (You).
with how small you can get a ITX system these days it's kind of pointless
I have a full tower Coolermaster HAF. The "HAF" part stands for High Air Flow. Something you don't get in those mini pc's.
Technically yes, practically? Don't waste your time on it.
No, it'll be your phone
Also,
>cables
No
Pretty sure Samsung already prototyped the whole smart phones computer thing.
>using cables
why don't they just give us a real fucking docking station back instead
What happens if you need to answer your phone while using your computer?
this is the truth
something like continuity I guess
Yeah, Dell's old dock could accommodate a PCI video card in it without much fuss. We need stuff like that back.
Why bother carrying all that shit when you can jsut rent a service like Nvidia gamestream.
But what if the laptop uses a desktop CPU that's throttled when you're out? We already have the 7700qm which is 47w and is more than enough for video games, imagine if the laptop had a dock with extra cooling that'll let you turbo up a processor so that it peaks at 25w when you're out and 50w when you're home?
External GPUs are just a novelty brought about by high speed IO capabilities
Why would you want to:
1. Pay a ridiculous amount for an enclosure which has no purpose other than to hold a GPU
2. Need to store games on your limited laptop storage
3. Is totally useless otherwise
For almost the same cost and size you can have a full desktop class system
How come the normies on Sup Forums are picking up that shit now?
Tech geeks where messing around with eGPUs back in 2006 already. Probably even before that.
Because the majority of Sup Forums is college kids
>pay an extra $100 per part to miniaturize it
>but now you don't have to pay for a cpu, you can just use the shitty one in your laptop!
I'm doing this on Black Friday. Gonna pull the trigger on a 2017 X1 Yoga, rip my GPU out and sell my rig. This way I can use one machine for everything.
Phone that docks into full 64 bit windows with 120fps on every game and 16k
I’ve got my MacBook Pro connected to an EGPU. With a single thunderbolt cable I’ve got power to the laptop, Ethernet, USB 3 ports and an internal SATA port. Only negative I can say is that it’s not a simple plug and play set up yet so it won’t be used by normnies and that Nvidia drivers on OS X aren’t ready for the masses.
>I’ve got my MacBook Pro connected to an EGPU. With a single thunderbolt cable I’ve got power to the laptop, Ethernet, USB 3 ports and an internal SATA port. Only negative I can say is that it’s not a simple plug and play set up yet so it won’t be used by normnies and that Nvidia drivers on OS X aren’t ready for the masses.
What isn't pnp about it? Also isn't Apple supporting eGPU natively in High Sierra?
eGPU are still buggy as shit and has poor support.
Thunderbolt PCI-e x4 isn't futureproof bandwidth and many laptops still come with PCI-e x2 (a good example is the famous Dell XPS 15 9560).
Anyone still using old thinkpads and PCI-e x1/x2 shouldn't be talking about the future of eGPUs.
Having a couple of fans blowing against the bottom of your laptop doesn't have that great a cooling effect user
Of course it does.
And the fact that the eGPU can't accelerate the inbuilt display?
same shit for < $50, works well for mining or deep learning kinda usecases.
same thing, works well if laptop has a m-PCIE port, I had to disconnect Wifi card for this.
Useful for CUDA / cuBLAS / other compute, not for playing gaymes.
Literally this since laptops are only optimized desktop hardware (if you use decent hardware). since it's optimized it needs extra efforts and precision to build them. However the only optimization is the miniaturization
These things are so expensive that it defeats the purpose. For the price you could have a dedicated gaming PC.
No laptops with decent specs will always be overpriced.
The future is normies with bending screen phone-tablet hybrids with folding keyboards so they can replace desktops and laptops entirely.
Gaymers will continue to use glowing rgb desktops as always.
Every time you raise the bar for laptops you also raise the bar for desktops. So no matter how much faster a laptop is. There will be a comparable desktop with twice the speed and half the cost.
why dont you buy a macbook instead? their great for both work and leisure.
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Nice
why don't you just buy an xbox?
So this?
Its retard and overpriced. Just get some embedded computer or use your phone for that.
If you want performance get something like dan case when you can have the whole system with a 1080ti in ultra small form factor, not that plugable gpu enclosure that costs as much as gpu itself
shit thermals
clamshell mode blows and will always blow
Those are too specialist for plebs, who will just buy another device for home.
It won't catch on when having another device is perceived as being easier.
> future
I have a gtx 970 plugged into my 15' MacBook Pro 2015 since I bought it
Playing gta V, metro redux, etc ... at 60 fps in high 2560*1080
I even under clock the cpu to 2.2ghz instead of 3.xx because it doesn't impact fps that much
botw in cemu also runs at 25+ fps but in this one the cpu is the bottleneck, even at 3.4ghz on all cores
MacBook Pro for 90% of my work, can play any games when I'm home without the need of another pc.
It's not cost efficient if you don't need a good laptop in the first place
I'm not going to compromise, this is why I will always have a desktop PC at home which I can extend and upgrade any time.
maybe not the future but a fun present. $300 setup that can play some overcrotch at 60fps then disconnect & throw in a bag
laptop model and gpu?
You can build a desktop that wont thermal throttle for the price of that enclosure.
>hp 2570p ($100)
>low profile 1050 ti ($150)
>exp gdc beast v8 egpu adapter + dell da-2 psu ($35+$15)
solid 60fps overbotch results:
>medium on internal screen (1366x768)
>high on external screen (1920x1080)
(could probably increase some individual settings and keep the fps)
This seems like egpu done right.
Most of the donuts in this thread are talking aout putting it on their mac probooks and shit with high end graphics cards. That's $1000+ for the laptop, $300 for the external boxes and $200+ for the graphics card. Those kind of budgets give you a high end desktop computer plus a non retard cost laptop.
This is the patrician way. I just ordered the same setup for my x220.
you tried running cemu on it?
>No need to compromise
>have a ultra slim laptop
Not only are you illiterate, but also a fucking imbecile.
if they did the same with a CPU it would be neat. don't want my ultra slime ultrabook die of heat death from CPU. also don't want fans in my notebook.
so external CPU and GPU would be great. bu then again - building a desktop would be probably more bang/buck.
If they increase the bus speed to satisfy the performance autists, probably.
>patrician
>hacked together ghetto setup
Yeah no. Proper laptop + proper desktop + file syncing is how you do it.
so a tablet with a vga imput so you can use it as a screen?
no. I want a proper OS and a proper keyboard. tablets are nuTVs. made for normie media consumption.
how would the x220 work with that? doesn't it need thunderbolt or usb 3 or some shit like that? or am I being retarded. because if I am pls tell me how to do this on x220!
Or you could have a desktop and a laptop.
Just get a console for your gaymes guys its that easy
but it can?
>that pic
>just buy an external gpu
>just buy an external cpu
>just buy an external mobo
>just buy an external ssd
>end up with a desktop computer
That connects to your laptop.
Plug laptop to the Desktop Docking Station
>laptop uses Desktop GPU
>laptop uses Desktop CPU
>plug a mouse for efficiency
>plug a keyboard for efficiency
>It is better to switch to double screen setup too
>actually unplug laptop because it's useless
Yes, it is future of computing
It might be far more practical to have better software that allows for "syncing" settings/data/applications between two PCs, a laptop and a desktop, such that opening up my laptop will essentially pick up where my desktop left off.
That's the whole point. Having a laptop which just docks in to become a full pc. No need for any sort of file sync, just dock in for the full pc experience then simpy undock and go for the laptop experience
No. The crytpofag spoiled it for you. Have a nice day.
Well, my compromise was buying a £240 laptop with a 1080p IPS display and swapping an i7 quad core into it. 4810QM is about 10% behind the 7700HQ, so I'm not really losing much.
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For a MacBook to work you need an efans module to keep shit on Mac not thermal trotteling
It's literally better to buy a cheapo laptop and build a good desktop.