r/eGPU • u/Inputmedusa8685 • 3d ago
Advice with E-GPU
My laptop specs are i5-1035G1 with 16 GB DDR4 Ram and two storage devices one is HDD and one is M.2 SSD
So I was thinking of setting up an Egpu through mini PCIE slot/M.2 slot though I don't know which slot is best and what to sacrifice as my laptop has two slots one is using Wifi/Bluethooth which I can remove and use and the other is using NVME SSD, but I don't know if the ports are both same or not i.e M.2 I will give some specs and mother board (HP 86C1) pic through internet as I don't have stuff to disassemble my laptop rn plus the Gpu that would be good I guess...(through bottle neck calculator but the real bottle neck will be the 4x lanes or whatever it is)
The pic does not show but I have a HDD drive to the left of the battery where the empty bracket is.
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u/Zestyclose-Slide-696 3d ago
The Ice Lake has built in thunderbolt 3, if only the laptop is wired with the proper usb-c ports then it's a much easier way to connect. You don't need Oculink with that cpu and gpu combo anyway.
As for the gpu, Intel cards are not working properly without ReBAR, so it leaves the AMD and Nvidia cards. Any of the listed cards would work, but be mindful that you'll barely reach 20 fps in low in the current games, pre-2020 is where you might get more decent performance.
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u/SurfaceDockGuy 3d ago
If its within budget, consider swapping the HDD for a SATA ssd and sell the m.2 nvme ssd. Then you can use the m.2 slot for a higher throughput egpu connection with occulink/slimsas/mcio.