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Hi to all those laptop modders who can hopefully help me with my small project..
Please understand that this is a rather long thread, but I am disabled so very limited to funds as well as mobility, although I can at steady pace get my hands dirty (so to speak).
My Laptop..
I have a (although very old) extremely robust DELL E6320 laptop which has been my old faithful for many many years but only has the inbuilt HD3000 graphics card.
Additional info…
I have managed to install Windows 11 onto this laptop with some help from friends and it runs pretty comfortably, and is also running Direct X 12 although it sometimes says it’s DX11. So it could be DX11. Regardless Fusion 360 prefers to run on Direct X 11.
My Proposed Mod Project…
So I want to find a way so I can connect an External Graphics card (that I will build into a small enclosure), which can then be powered externally but make my laptop recognise that Graphics card and allow me to use that as an when I want to run a few designs etc.
***Before anyone criticises- I am very much disabled and cannot keep lugging around a Desktop PC…which is why I wish to mod my laptop instead, and use this Graphics card and my laptop since it will weight a lot less.
I have tried looking at several ways but I am unsure if they will work, but there are a lot of bright people obviously I am not one of those though.
Obviously my external graphics card will be used to run (NON Gaming software) I’m more of a design type person than a gamer.. Fusion 360 is one example.
However I would like to know if anyone can assist me, by somehow utilising one of the spare ports available on the motherboard(internal/External) to somehow convert to PCI-E 16X, which the External Graphics Card (that I already own) will be connected to via a PCI-E 16X adapter.
It is a real challenge
Thank you to all that got down to the end of this request.
Note: Finally be advised this is not the only forum that I am sending this to, so if you are a member of others you might come across the same request.
Please understand that this is a rather long thread, but I am disabled so very limited to funds as well as mobility, although I can at steady pace get my hands dirty (so to speak).
My Laptop..
I have a (although very old) extremely robust DELL E6320 laptop which has been my old faithful for many many years but only has the inbuilt HD3000 graphics card.
Additional info…
I have managed to install Windows 11 onto this laptop with some help from friends and it runs pretty comfortably, and is also running Direct X 12 although it sometimes says it’s DX11. So it could be DX11. Regardless Fusion 360 prefers to run on Direct X 11.
My Proposed Mod Project…
So I want to find a way so I can connect an External Graphics card (that I will build into a small enclosure), which can then be powered externally but make my laptop recognise that Graphics card and allow me to use that as an when I want to run a few designs etc.
***Before anyone criticises- I am very much disabled and cannot keep lugging around a Desktop PC…which is why I wish to mod my laptop instead, and use this Graphics card and my laptop since it will weight a lot less.
I have tried looking at several ways but I am unsure if they will work, but there are a lot of bright people obviously I am not one of those though.
Obviously my external graphics card will be used to run (NON Gaming software) I’m more of a design type person than a gamer.. Fusion 360 is one example.
However I would like to know if anyone can assist me, by somehow utilising one of the spare ports available on the motherboard(internal/External) to somehow convert to PCI-E 16X, which the External Graphics Card (that I already own) will be connected to via a PCI-E 16X adapter.
It is a real challenge
Thank you to all that got down to the end of this request.
Note: Finally be advised this is not the only forum that I am sending this to, so if you are a member of others you might come across the same request.
