Add A Graphics Card To Your Laptop Or Mini PC With This M.2 GPU Dock!

n this video I show you how to easily add an external Graphics Card “GPU” to your Laptop or mini PC using this awesome M.2 Graphics card dock from ADT-Link!
I test out a Radeon 5700XT on a cheaper 3500U powered laptop and I also test out an RTX 3060 on the new MINSforum H40 powered by the Ryzen 4500U
This dock supports boot delay and the DA-2 USff DELL 12V/18A/220W power supply, or a standard ATX power supply so it makes it super easy to power your eGPU.

Equipment I Use:

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[JeffGeerling]

Two M.2 slots, such luxury! And x4, so much bandwidth!

[EpicTyphlosionTV]

Alternate title: "Turn your laptop into a desktop"

[jonmcentire]

Pro tip with the laptop setup, they make HDMI dummy plugs (google it, you will find a bunch) that you can plug into the external GPU. It will trick the GPU into thinking it has a working monitor plugged in. With that set up, you go into display settings and set the GPU to have the same resolution as the laptop display then set the the laptop and GPU to duplicate each other with the GPU set as the primary display adapter. This way a game that loads wont even look at the integrated graphics and load on the correct GPU, but since the laptop display is duplicating whatever is showing on the external GPU you will see the game/desktop as though it was running on the internal GPU. Now you don't need the external monitor.

[makbar]

I think an interesting test would be to run benchmark tests on a normal PC between connecting a GPU through the PCIe slot and an M.2 X4 slot.
That would really tell us what the performance drop off of this setup is.

[Gunbomber]

Pretty impressive! I bought a mini PC as backup after crashing my main computer, now I can make a side project to transform it into a decent gaming backup.

[JefferyMiller]

Thank you for this! I was actually thinking about how this could be accomplished this very morning!

[quantamatrix]

Man you're a life saver. I was worried when I saw that my newly purchased VivoBook flip didn't have a thunderbolt 3 type c.

[ClayWheeler]

MOOOORE

WE NEED MORE SUCH VIDEO.
M.2 NVMe eGPU is the future of Cheap External GPU solution

[jameswalker]

So many forums say things like it's impossible to use an external GPU on a laptop or mini-PC because there's no interface or because PCIe x2 isn't enough. It's great to see this setup!

[plutoniumshore]

I was trying to do this with a Dell AIO a few years back. They had some kind of lock on the M.2 slot to only allow certain devices. While there were a LOT of customized firmwares out there to unlock various M.2's on lots of machines, they didn't have one for my particular machine. So the whole project was a "no-go". I did pick up an alienware graphics accelerator for ridiculously cheap that I wanted to gut out (just needed the shell since most are prohibitively expensive) to stick the adapter into...has been sitting in a box of forgotten projects ever since.

[Grumpy-J]

Great vid. Concise, too the point and an easy how to explanation.👍

[ccricers]

This makes me think of possible enclosures to fit this build into. A sandwich style SFF case like Ghost S1, but smaller than mini ITX only tall enough for these NUC-style boards. Like the NUC extreme but more custom.

[rustyshakkleford]

Really impressed with the mini PC performance. I have a 3060 and in most of the GPU heavy games and benchmarks you are getting the 85%+ of the cards performance. For instance a graphics score of 10, 000 in Timespy would be an amazing result for that card, so a 9070 is pretty damn impressive with that setup.

[tdata]

I wondered this, glad to see it's finally here. Also waiting for a USB 4 adapter for the M.2 slot.

[christiansilvermoon]

This... kinda makes me question why we don't see computers with external M.2 slots... that could be insanely useful.

[shadowrd]

Very educational, & informative as well. You sir have a new subscriber. Keep up the great work..

[xxNerv]

Literally thought of my motile laptop when I saw this then noticed you was using one lol dope

[herbmegurch]

I'm glad you mentioned to limit power to the GPU manually. You would have to do this with most new cards with a small 200W PSU.

[grantuk]

This could be the answer to my laptop gaming needs. It looks so simple to do even me who’s not very tech savvy could do it

[ezg]

Great video! The Golden standard would be a DIY homemade thunderbolt solution but this is still awesome and has greater compatibility.