EXP GDC Laptop External Video Card Dock

[lapdesk11]

I like to get this dock to connect Dell Latitude E6430 to a ASUS LCD 2560x1440

EXP GDC Beast Laptop External Independent Video Card Dock

http://www.gearbest.com/laptop-accessories/pp_229101.html

will this dock work if I get related items to connect my laptop?
what are all items I need to get beside a graphics card

appreciate anybody's help here as I havent done an external graphics card before
thanks

 

[Face2Face]

I like to get this dock to connect Dell Latitude E6430 to a ASUS LCD 2560x1440

EXP GDC Beast Laptop External Independent Video Card Dock

http://www.gearbest.com/laptop-accessories/pp_229101.html

will this dock work if I get related items to connect my laptop?
what are all items I need to get beside a graphics card

appreciate anybody's help here as I havent done an external graphics card before
thanks

From the looks of it, your laptops has a 54mm Express card slot.

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/latit/dell_latitude_e6430_spec_sheet.pdf

If that's the case, this part would be a better solution vs. the PCI-E mini.

http://www.gearbest.com/laptop-accessories/pp_229102.html

I'm pretty sure throughput is the same (PCI-E 1X), but using the card slot vs. removing your wireless card is a cleaner solution.

I've been tempted to try this out myself with my NUC, as it looks pretty interesting. Any way, there are a lot of YouTube videos on this as well.

 

[lapdesk11]

Face2Face
thanks much for the answer. I am doing more research on the links you sent
I will come back with some feedback

 

[Sushisamurai]

Lapdesk11, please refrain from making 3 forum topics trying to address the same question.

Face2Face has the correct answer and solution:

your dell has a ExpressCard 54 plug in solution that will work with
http://www.gearbest.com/laptop-accessories/pp_229102.html . The problem lies in the fact that at best the ExpressCard slot is PCI-e 2.0, effectively giving you at most 500MB/s of bandwidth, but I assume the ExpressCard slot is PCI-e 1.0, effectively giving you a maximum of 250MB/s of bandwidth. The reason we're talking about the Dell is because the HP model you mentioned only has a PCI-e MiniCard solution; any external graphics solution would be limited to PCI-e 1.0 and would require an external wire plugged into the internal components of your laptop (meaning you'd have to screw a panel off and on everytime you would move the laptop from its station, not to mention the ergonomics of plugging in a cable into the internal board through a small panel).

You would need a graphics card, and a power supply. The major issue is not connecting everything, but that the interface you're limited to is not a viable solution, as those interfaces would severely gimp whatever GPU you would plug in. Modern graphic cards are gimped even at PCI-e 3.0 x4 (4 lanes, giving a total of 4GB/s of bandwidth). The interfaces you're stuck with are at best 1/8 of that, but more likely 1/16 of that interface.

Bandwidth estimates on napkin math would be 2560*1440 (resolution) * 16 (bit color) * 60Hz (refresh rate) / 1000 (bits to Kb) / 1000 (Kb to Mb) = ~3500 / 8 = ~440MB/s, and that's just driving the display, not even utilizing GPU functions. The HP laptop @ PCI-e MiniCard only has 250MB/s bandwidth, so that wouldn't work. You could reduce the color's displayed on the display to 8-bit, but for your use cases (on the other posts) that would be self defeating, or force a lower refresh rate

Note: I could use someone to double check my bandwidth #'s, but that's just my rough estimate @ 2AM.