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External Video Card
Here you go. An External video card for the cheap cheap cheap cheap price of 1500$ USD. Enjoy.
http://www.amazon.com/Connect3D-3003...6592976&sr=8-2
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Re: External Video Card
That is not external. That is PCIe...as in PCI-Express. Not PCI-external.
EDIT: Wait...what the heck? I bet that is only for desktops though...I'd like to see an actual picture to prove that is not some crap phantom ware BS.
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this is theoretically impossible...lemme look more into it.
EDIT:
Product Features
* Tandberg Data 3003 420LTO External Kit
Technical Details
* Model: 3003
* Item Package Quantity: 1
* Hardware Platform: PC
* video_output: Graphics adapter
* form_factor: Plug-in card
* video_output_interface: PCI Express x16
* Graphics Coprocessor: ATI Radeon X300
* maximum_external_resolution: 2048 x 1536
* memory_technology: DDR SDRAM
* Graphics Ram: 128 MB
* video_input: None
* television_interface: TV out
Tandberg Data 3003 420LTO External Kit....ok I found out what this is under the part spec in that card...what I dont get is that why is a external tape drive(storage device) is part of the specification... I wouldnt trust this.
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A scam on amazon.. 1st time i heard of it.
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Re: External Video Card
Its actually not Amazon. A company called WonderElectronics sells and ships the product.
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X300? I will keep 1150 igp thank you very much. When I get $1500 I will just buy a Vostro w/8600m GT and maybe 8700m GT if I wait long enough for that kind of money.
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Re: External Video Card
I just found it when I was looking for a gaming mouse. Thought it was pretty funny because of the price. I don't know anything about it though.
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OH lord that is ridiculous. Asus was going to do an external video solution, but if I remember correctly they were offering at LEAST Geforce 7600 inside.
But really, with 1500 I'd just get a laptop with an 8600 built in.
External video cards wont be really viable until a newer mobile interface is created. SATA wont work, it's a storage interface. I don't know about FireWire functionality, but it wouldn't be fast enough, same with USB 2.0.
Expresscards can not handle real PCI-E traffic, they are only 1x (1 lane) compared to the standard 16x (16 lanes) in most desktop VGA slots. Even 8x (8 lanes) would work pretty darn well, but 1x no no no no.
I'd bet AMD will put together a mobile chipset with a special connector on the back that will interface at PCI-E 16 or 8 lane bandwidth. Then there'd be a sudden market for external video solutions that are not handicapped by that crappy express card bandwidth.
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Even the XG station to which you refer requires an external monitor (which makes no sense to me because that takes the portability out of it). I like how the XG station looks but it will still probably be expensive. Also I thought high-bandwith expresscard slots were x16?
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nope. all express card slots that are on laptops as i know it is x1.