Firing Up the exp GDC External GPU Adapter: An Experiment with an MSI GTX 1070 on a Lenovo 110s

Hello everyone and welcome to another video, now you may remember a while back I used this to connect the graphics card to an old laptop today it's time to fire up the exp GDC external GPU adapter once again because yesterday's super budget Celeron notebook is getting an upgrade. One heck of an upgrade to this is MSI's GTX 1070 on its only Lenovo 110s proved to be an ok piece of kits for the price but a very poor gaming system which was far from unexpected.

So I thought we'd go completely overboard and see just how much performance gain we can get after pairing this unlikely duo. Yes, the Celeron in 306 OCP you will still hold us back and yes, the two gigabytes of ram will severely limit our endeavors but let's get started if you want a more sensible demonstration of this in use then I do suggest watching my first video on the subject as well.

The initial issue I faced with this laptop was that I required an ng FF cable instead of the included mini PCI Express 1. But after sourcing that and connecting it up, it was time to connect the GTX 1070. Now, this is a relatively simple process but one that requires an external power supply. You'll also lose access to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, but I remedied that with a separate Wi-Fi dongle. The whole thing is a bit Frankenstein's monster, but I mean it works.

One thing to bear in mind is that Nvidia drivers 370 2.90 and onward won't work with this adapter and the 10 series cards and will give you an error. So, I opted for the older 370 2 point 7 oh release which although old is necessary to avoid problems with that down in the card detected it was finally time to run some tests.

All games are running from an external 1 terabyte hard drive on the laptop screen with graphical changes made accordingly. First up, it's Dirt 4 and as you can see this is not a very good experience. It's better than what we'd get with the laptops onboard HD graphics don't get me wrong but the 2 gigabytes of memory combined with the weak CPU is limiting our performance here, it's not absolutely terrible but at 24 frames per second average with severe frame drops will likely put you off in a fast-paced racing title such as this one.

Next up on bottlenecking for beginners we have Evil Within - 1366 by 768 with the lowest settings. The game still struggled to achieve a playable framerate on our external GPU based system and although some moments during this opening level playthrough run better than others, don't expect to see anything over say 20 FPS.

I decided to try Overwatch now, I did jump into a practice match because I didn't want to leave an online game early and I'm glad I did because I could pretty much gauge performance from the skirmish at the start. The average frame rate looks okay but the severe stutter and freezing meant that you'd probably lose every match you played it was now clear that this experiment wasn't going the way I had planned.

But I decided to round things off with a game of CS:GO, this was the final nail in the experimental coffin, I wasn't too shocked so to speak considering this is a CPU intensive game and judging from the other results this was bound to happen. Obviously, I don't recommend you try this unless your laptop is better SPECT to start with and if you did once a game on an old machine of yours it may be worth waiting for a service like GeForce now from Nvidia to release on PC which is streaming based and probably I deal with something like this for now though.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone and welcome to another video now you may remember a while back I use this to connect the graphics card to an old laptop today it's time to fire up the exp GDC external GPU adapter once again because yesterday's super budget Celeron notebook is getting an upgrade one heck of an upgrade to this is MSI's gtx 1070 on it's only lenovo 110s proved to be an ok piece of kits for the price but a very poor gaming system which was far from unexpected so I thought we'd go completely overboard and see just how much performance gain we can get after pairing this unlikely duo yes the Celeron in 306 OCP you will still hold us back and yes the two gigabytes of ram will severely limit our endeavors but let's get started if you want a more sensible demonstration of this in use then I do suggest watching my first video on the subject as well the initial issue I faced with this laptop was that I required an ng FF cable instead of the included mini PCI Express 1 but after sourcing that and connecting it up it was time to connect the gtx 1070 now this is a relatively simple process but one that requires an external power supply you'll also lose access to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity but I remedied that with a separate Wi-Fi dongle the whole thing is a bit Frankenstein's monster but I mean it works one thing to bear in mind is that Nvidia drivers 370 2.90 and onward won't work with this adapter and the 10 series cards and will give you an error so I opted for the older 370 2 point 7 oh release which although old is necessary to avoid problems with that down in the card detected it was finally time to run some tests all games are running from an external 1 terabyte hard drive on the laptop screen with graphical changes made accordingly first up it's dirt 4 and as you can see this is not a very good experience it's better than what we'd get with the laptops onboard HD graphics don't get me wrong but the 2 gigabytes of memory combined with the weak CPU is limiting our performance here it's not absolutely terrible but at 24 frames per second average with severe frame drops will likely put you off in a fast-paced racing title such as this one next up on bottlenecking for beginners we have evil within - 1366 by 768 with the lowest settings the game still struggled to achieve a playable framerate on our external GPU based system and although some moments during this opening level playthrough run better than others don't expect to see anything over say 20 FPS next I decided to try overwatch now I did jump into a practice match because I didn't want to leave an online game early and I'm glad I did because I could pretty much gauge performance from the skirmish at the start the average frame rate looks okay but the severe stutter and freezing meant that you'd probably lose every match you played it was now clear that this experiment wasn't going the way I had planned but I decided to round things off with a game of csgo this was the final nail in the experimental coffin I wasn't too shocked so to speak considering this is a CPU intensive game and judging from the other results this was bound to happen obviously I don't recommend you try this unless your laptop is better SPECT to start with and if you did once a game on an old machine of yours it may be worth waiting for a service like GeForce now from Nvidia to release on PC which is streaming based and probably I deal with something like this for now though I hope you've enjoyed today's rather experimental production if you did guys please leave a like on this video leave a dislike if you didn't enjoy it all that much subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and as always I hope to see all of you in the next videohello everyone and welcome to another video now you may remember a while back I use this to connect the graphics card to an old laptop today it's time to fire up the exp GDC external GPU adapter once again because yesterday's super budget Celeron notebook is getting an upgrade one heck of an upgrade to this is MSI's gtx 1070 on it's only lenovo 110s proved to be an ok piece of kits for the price but a very poor gaming system which was far from unexpected so I thought we'd go completely overboard and see just how much performance gain we can get after pairing this unlikely duo yes the Celeron in 306 OCP you will still hold us back and yes the two gigabytes of ram will severely limit our endeavors but let's get started if you want a more sensible demonstration of this in use then I do suggest watching my first video on the subject as well the initial issue I faced with this laptop was that I required an ng FF cable instead of the included mini PCI Express 1 but after sourcing that and connecting it up it was time to connect the gtx 1070 now this is a relatively simple process but one that requires an external power supply you'll also lose access to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity but I remedied that with a separate Wi-Fi dongle the whole thing is a bit Frankenstein's monster but I mean it works one thing to bear in mind is that Nvidia drivers 370 2.90 and onward won't work with this adapter and the 10 series cards and will give you an error so I opted for the older 370 2 point 7 oh release which although old is necessary to avoid problems with that down in the card detected it was finally time to run some tests all games are running from an external 1 terabyte hard drive on the laptop screen with graphical changes made accordingly first up it's dirt 4 and as you can see this is not a very good experience it's better than what we'd get with the laptops onboard HD graphics don't get me wrong but the 2 gigabytes of memory combined with the weak CPU is limiting our performance here it's not absolutely terrible but at 24 frames per second average with severe frame drops will likely put you off in a fast-paced racing title such as this one next up on bottlenecking for beginners we have evil within - 1366 by 768 with the lowest settings the game still struggled to achieve a playable framerate on our external GPU based system and although some moments during this opening level playthrough run better than others don't expect to see anything over say 20 FPS next I decided to try overwatch now I did jump into a practice match because I didn't want to leave an online game early and I'm glad I did because I could pretty much gauge performance from the skirmish at the start the average frame rate looks okay but the severe stutter and freezing meant that you'd probably lose every match you played it was now clear that this experiment wasn't going the way I had planned but I decided to round things off with a game of csgo this was the final nail in the experimental coffin I wasn't too shocked so to speak considering this is a CPU intensive game and judging from the other results this was bound to happen obviously I don't recommend you try this unless your laptop is better SPECT to start with and if you did once a game on an old machine of yours it may be worth waiting for a service like GeForce now from Nvidia to release on PC which is streaming based and probably I deal with something like this for now though I hope you've enjoyed today's rather experimental production if you did guys please leave a like on this video leave a dislike if you didn't enjoy it all that much subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already and as always I hope to see all of you in the next video\n"