{"video_id":"EUg7YyXflhE","title":"External GPU Enclosures as Fast As Possible","channel":"Techquickie","show":"Techquickie","published_at":"2018-05-06T14:58:16Z","duration_s":343,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.2,"text":"thanks for watching techwiki click the subscribe button then enable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.2,"end_s":8.88,"text":"notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.359,"end_s":13.36,"text":"if you've got a reasonably modern desktop pc upgrading your gaming","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.88,"end_s":17.84,"text":"experience is no big deal take out your old graphics card slot in a new one and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.679,"end_s":21.92,"text":"shazam your games go from blurry slideshow to smooth and crispy like a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.8,"end_s":26.0,"text":"pringle but let's say that you enjoy 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guys for watching if you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":335.039,"end_s":343.0,"text":"dislike this video you can hit that button but otherwise hit like check out our other channels leave a comment with","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":338.88,"end_s":343.0,"text":"video suggestions and subscribe","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"thanks for watching techwiki click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos if you've got a reasonably modern desktop pc upgrading your gaming experience is no big deal take out your old graphics card slot in a new one and shazam your games go from blurry slideshow to smooth and crispy like a pringle but let's say that you enjoy portability not only in your potato products but also in your computing ones so you've ditched your desktop for a do-it-all laptop and you're wondering how to upgrade the graphics card on that when you realize oh wait you can't because assuming that it has a discrete GPU at all the chips inside are soldered on so wait then what you just have to buy a new laptop with the graphics you want or go back to a bulky desktop actually do people even read the title no you don't as long as your current notebook has a Thunderbolt 3 port you may be able to use an external GPU enclosure these devices look a little bit like a small form-factor pc but they are built solely to contain a desktop graphics card inside you'll typically find a full length pci express slot power cables at least one case fan to help keep it cool and a power supply either on the inside or on the outside nicer enclosures also feature other creature comforts like usb and Ethernet ports that connect to your pc through Thunderbolt internal drive mounts for your game library or even RGB lighting which may or may not be welcome but back to the meat and potatoes of this topic the reason these external enclosures are suddenly popping up for a product that was thought of as exclusively for internal desktop use not too long ago is because the Thunderbolt 3 controller in your computer can interface with your system's pci express bus at very high speeds though that isn't to say that external GPU enclosures offer the same performance as a graphics card plugged directly into a motherboard or even a desktop grade graphics chip that has been incorporated directly into your laptop's main board a recent trend among notebook makers the Thunderbolt 3.0 connection is active this means that it has internal logic that processes the signals that pass through it and it only supports up to four pci express 3.0 lanes rather than 16. so you could easily see around a 20 or 25 reduction in frame rates compared to an otherwise similar desktop potentially even more depending on your exact hardware configuration and the games you're trying to play and if you want to play on your laptop's internal monitor with your external GPU that GPU will be competing with the display data being looped back to your system leading to yet another significant performance hit topping it all off these enclosures tend to be expensive starting at around 300 us dollars when we shot this episode and going up to over 500 for premium ones it should be noted however that the alienware graphics amplifier is a bit of an exception here but it uses a proprietary pci express connection that can only be found on alienware branded laptops so then are external GPU enclosures just a waste of money for suckers well no they can be a compelling option if you have an existing non-gaming laptop or one with a weaker GPU and a Thunderbolt 3 port and they can even be useful for non-gaming tasks adding GPU acceleration to productivity suites like adobe creative cloud or even for plugging in non-graphics expansion cards like audio interfaces NVMe ssds high-speed network cards etc and helping matters some of the smallest and lightest enclosures are actually being sold with graphics cards included now at a net discount helping to offset the high cost a bit now there are still a few gotchas to watch out for you'll need to make sure that your laptop's Thunderbolt 3 port uses four lanes rather than two and it's preferred that they come directly off the CPU rather than through the chipset the latter can lead to bottlenecks but if your hardware setup looks good a laptop plus egpu might make getting to and from your next lan party a little bit easier unless you like to bench press full tower pcs in your spare time check out ting the mobile carrier that's focused on customer service and satisfaction when you call ting you do not speak to a robot you get put through directly to a person and you don't pay a huge premium for the privilege with ting you pay only for the air time that you use with the average ting bill coming in at only 23 bucks a month per device so you can find out if you'll save on ting by going to techwiki.ting.com we're going to have that linked below and trying out their 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