A couple of years back, ASUS announced the XG station. Which was meant as an external heavy duty graphics card solution for NoteBooks / Laptops via express card connectors. However it never made it to the mainstream retail market.
Where as now its AMD which is carrying the dream forward with their latest ATi XGP platform. It would be only usable on specially developed notebooks equipped with external PCIe 2.0 connector.
The platform would use externally powered and cooled ATi HD 3800 series cards under CrossFireX to provide rich multimedia experience. Enabling users to play high definition games / HD – Blu-Ray movies or editing video simultaneously under a multi display setup.
No information given on pricing or availability dates yet.
What is an External graphics card ?
Those who may be wondering as what’s up with this external graphics devices, for their information, do note, heavy duty hardware generates a lot of heat and eats power also, thus notebooks / laptop usually doesn’t come with heavy duty cards like what you may have under your performance desktop configuration.
Therefore, these external solution would allow you to use a performance graphics card as a plug and play external device. Just like your USB mouse. So when you are at home and thinking for heavy gaming, you may just plug in your external graphics card and enjoy. where as at office and while you are mobile, your notebook would just use your internal less power hungry and cooler internal graphics solution to power your less graphics hungry applications such as word processing or internet usage !!!
hello sir, can my laptop ( hp 6730b) is capable for this external graphic card???
want a reply sir.
thanks!!
i am having cq40-425tu with 2gb ram and dual core T4200@2.00 Ghz and resolution of 1280×800..games like ghost recon and cod mw works slowly…can i attach this external graphics card? please suggest me…
i have hp probook 4520s. with 2gb ram n 350 hard disk & 1gb intel hd graphics card. its unable to run games most of games with high details & 3d games ……. is that possible if i buy nvedia 1gb usb graphic card….. then it can run the games or nt & also support external nvedia graphics card or any other gaming card n also tell me the price of 1gb nvedia usb graphics card in india….. plz help me…. i love games….. bt cant play due to this problem……
I want to know its price and also want to know that is it work in compaq610. reply me immediately.
I am having acer 5920 with intel core 2 deo, 2GB ddr2 ram, 160 hdd, 1.83 ghz
is this external graphic card work on my laptop
plzzzz inform me i need graphic card for my laptop
reply me plzzzzz