Genius or wishful thinking?

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tsol2388

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I have a low-end Toshiba laptop and am trying to get around buying a new computer to make it gaming-capable. After some thinking I thought about docking stations. Is there any way to have a docking station with an "external" graphics card? Any help is appreciated
 
There are no generic docking stations for any laptop. What Toshiba made for your model or series is all you can get. So, unless they have one with extra ports, you won't be able to... I have seen some older docking stations for Dell's that had PCI slots in them, but I don't hear much about docking stations anymore.

There was word on an external box for PCI-Express video cards, but I don't know if it was ever produced...
 
The Express-Card slot GPU isn't publicly available, however it will be bottlenecked to the lower bus speed of Express-Card slots and has to be played through an external monitor (well that was a loose detail when there was alot of rumors out and about).
Yeah Dell D-Docks support a PCI card (the higher end dock itleast) however all new cards are PCI-E , or at the least: AGP.
My best advice is to hope that the external GPU thing turns out well. Or to build a desktop. (unless you think you can sell your laptop without loosing to much and buy something better)
 
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