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ExpressCard Graphics Solution

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August 11, 2014 5:29:30 AM

Hello again, everyone. I have a question about an Idea I had.
I have an HP (Compaq) 6730b laptop, and it has a nice little ExpressCard slot. I love the idea of ExpressCard, because it actually lets you upgrade your laptops besides hard drive size and RAM. I was lucky enough to find an ExpressCard adapter for desktop graphics cards. I've seen how these work, and I think it's fantastic. I have a Radeon R7 250, and I thought it would be a good idea to use that for the ExpressCard laptop.

The laptop has a Duo Core P8700. Now, my current desktop has a Pentium E2180, and the graphics card SEEMS to run at full power in there, to be honest, I'm not used to AMD, I can't be sure. I DO know for a fact though that the P8700 is more powerful than the E2180, but I want to know for a fact that it won't bottleneck. Does anyone know how to check that WITHOUT me buying the adapter first?

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August 11, 2014 5:38:30 AM

The cpu won't get a chance to bottleneck. The card will be bottlenecked by the bus. Express cards use a pci-e 1x bus which will be a bottleneck.
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August 11, 2014 5:58:16 AM

bignastyid said:
The cpu won't get a chance to bottleneck. The card will be bottlenecked by the bus. Express cards use a pci-e 1x bus which will be a bottleneck.


I mostly work with computers on the software side. I understand what you are talking about, but buy how much would it bottleneck? Could you give me an estimated percentage?
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