External graphics cards with laptops

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McTavish

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Hi. I've recently been trying out various difference VR displays and experiences. I was thinking about buying the OSVR open-source hmd, but the graphics card on the laptop i have now is an Intel HD3000, which might work for some low quality games (which is really all I would need to play anyway, i don't need it to work with high-end games), but it still seems risky to buy it without knowing for sure if it would work.
My laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad t420, which, as I understand so far, you cannot replace the graphics card on it. So i was thinking about using an external graphics card. But I don't even really know if it's possible and i'm not finding much help on the web. So do any of you guys know if this would be possible?
 
And, also, I have one of those little Google Cardboards, and using my Samsung Galaxy S3 in it, it's suprisingly a lot of fun. In fact I would use it a lot if it weren't so flimsy and uncomfortable. But as long as the Intel HD3000 graphics in my lenovo thinkpad t420 would run a little better than that, I would be totally fine with it.
 
You can get a better graphics card by looking up "external GPU for laptop". Alienware make a setup for their laptops, but you typically have to have a free PCI port within it and then leave it cracked open for the cord.

Worth just building a PC in my opinion since some enclosures are $100-200 not including the price of a GPU
 
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