Is there any way to connect the optical drive port of a laptop

>>1043700
I'm not very good at this and i'm still researching, but i need some guidance. Did someone else transform their useless optical drive to a Thunderbolt 3 port?

No. The protocol is completely different. Plus external GPUs don't use USB 3.1, they use thunderbolt 3.

>>1043702
So there is no way for me to connect an eGPU to a laptop with 3.0 usb?

>>1043703
what about my HDMI port, can i use that? I am currently looking for solutions.

>>1043704
Look up the internals of the charger, see If they match, you might be able to modify it to make it work

>>1043710
i might have found something. I'm researching the insides of my laptop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Qw_37t_zw

>>1043704
No. You need either some form of PCIe or Thunderbolt

>>1043703
>>1043704
No and no. Optical Drives almost exclusively use SATA ports. SATA is for storage, and even at its peak is limited to 6gb/s. compare to a single PCI lane, which does 7.5gb/s(GPU's us 8/+ lanes).
HDMI on laptops is just about exclusively output ( I have never seen HDMI-in on a laptop). so again, no.
Thunderbolt is essentially a way to have external devices which can use PCI.
If your laptop does not have a thunderbolt port or a PCI-E (the -E is important), you can't have an external GPU. Nothing else offers both the bandwidth and correct protocol.

>>1043703
No. USB is not designed to handle graphics cards.

If you have an expresscard slot I thought somebody had a product available.

>>1043701
optical drives use a sata interface, so it wont be fast enough for an egpu