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Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:
Upgrading Laptop Graphics |
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Hi,
I was just curious if anyone has ever tried to make an external AGP
port or PCI slot to allow laptops to use a desktop graphics card. Is
this even possible and if it is, what would be the first steps in doing
so? |
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Keith R. Williams
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Mon Dec 13, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject:
Re: Upgrading Laptop Graphics |
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In article <1102957894.568590.179550@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Rappatappa@gmail.com says...
| Quote: | Hi,
I was just curious if anyone has ever tried to make an external AGP
port or PCI slot to allow laptops to use a desktop graphics card. Is
this even possible and if it is, what would be the first steps in doing
so?
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PCI slots are certainly possible. I'm typing on a ThinkPad in a
docking station with a secondary PCI graphics card plugged into its PCI
slot.
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Keith |
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Jason Ozolins
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Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:40 am Post subject:
Re: Upgrading Laptop Graphics |
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Rappatappa@gmail.com wrote:
| Quote: | I was just curious if anyone has ever tried to make an external AGP
port or PCI slot to allow laptops to use a desktop graphics card. Is
this even possible and if it is, what would be the first steps in doing
so?
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There are PCI expansion chassis (hmm, is chassis the plural of chassis?
Chassises? :-) which connect to a laptop by a Cardbus card, or to a
desktop by a PCI card. I guess that to the host the card looks like a
PCI-to-PCI bridge, and the PCI cards in the remote box are sitting on
the far side of that bridge. One common use is to host lots of audio
interfaces for multitrack recording.
http://www.magma.com is the vendor I happen to know about. |
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