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I've got an old Lenovo DAGC8EMB8D0 mobo that I'm going to bring back to life and my autism is kickkking in trying to optimize this build.
The M.2 slot already has a wireless-n card in it and I've got an SSD and the DVD-RW drive that came with the laptop installed in the sata ports.The plan is to have a chinky Expresscard54 USB3.0x2 adapter in it.
Currently it has an [email protected].
I could use the mPCIe slot for a USB3 connection or another ssd and use Expresscard54 for eGPU, but i'm not sure how much of a difference that I'll see. I feel like eGPU won't get me very far because the i5-2540M isn't very good. I could upgrade to the i7-2640M 2.8ghz, but looking at the benchmarks it's not much of an upgrade for ~$200.
Two questions:
- Is there something else I can do with this mPCIe slot, other than stick my dick in it?
- Will attempting eGPU really matter if I am bottlenecked @2.6GHz, or even 2.8GHz?
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Wireless m.2 slots are key E or something useless like that. You can't do shit.
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Have you seen this site?
https://egpu.io/external-gpu-buyers-guide-2017/
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>>59580373
I haven't come across that yet. Good find. Will eGPU make that much of a difference in quality on this old machine?
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>>59580471
>i5-2540M
>4Gbps (2nd-5th gen i-core CPU)
You need to buy an adapter and the card itself.
I don't know how far 4Gbps is going to get you.
One of the pages on the site might have said something about bandwidth.
If you already going to get a new card for some other build you're going to do, then it might be worth getting the adapter to try this out just for fun.
If not then I think there is a real risk of spending a lot of money for not a lot of gain.
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>>59580648
alright, you've convinced me
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