Need advice, /g/entoomen. I'm trying to turn an old laptop

>>57907374
>imdependent
Seems like a chink brand fire hazard.

They do but you get a severe performance penalty from the shitty processor on the laptop throttling to 2 GHz or less when under very heavy load (ie playing vydia).

In the end building a desktop is a much much better practical solution and more economical too.

an old laptop will probably have a dual-core CPU from the cold war days that will bottleneck everything no matter how good the graphics card is.
just get a 2nd hand desktop for like 50 bucks or something

If you get a way to plug/unplug in a really easy way (like a USB), without having to remove the plate or whtever, then yes, they can be really worth it, leaving you to play some games when on home, and then aking the laptop somewhere else.
Like, plug all the shit, play on it, then disconnect it all and go to the work or wherever.

A good gayming machine would be a laptop with a i7 to contrarrest that 2GHz like >>57907419 says and 8 or more RAM, because laptops will have even more shit loading out there.

A late ThinkPad would do it really good, but keep in mind that they might not have the ports.

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>>57907374
Depends on your expectations. It won't be as good as a desktop system but it can boost your Intel iGPU laptop graphics performance multiple times over and make a whole new catalog of games run playable.

>>57907419
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_8EYQ-2RA

still better then iGPU

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>>57907374
Yes it works fine.

>>57908602
Of course it works, I used it a decade ago already before it became a fucking meme