A friend of mine has an HP Envy x360 m6 (with the AMD CPU) and he wants to play games on it, but they run pretty poorly (especially graphics-intensive online games). I was wondering if any of you know if he could connect a GPU externally to run games. I tried to do my own research, but it was pretty inconclusive.
There is a possibility. He could use one of those adapters that split the PCI connector used by the WI-FI card into a 16x electrical slot in wich is possible to seat a desktop GPU. But looks like your friend should take apart the whole back of the PC to use this trick and I won't personally do that.
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Ah, well, thanks for your response. I'll let him know, unless someone says something that contradicts what you've said.
Cheers
according to the manual that laptop should have a mpci-e slot for it's wifi card but it's under the keyboard so not easy access.
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04341936
HP is also known to whitelist wifi card slots so you may need to hack your bios to get the egpu to work.
if you plan to try it I'd reccomend this adapter.
http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4C%20V3.0.html
it's better quality then the exp gdc adapter that can buy on ali express.also keep in mind these adapters have very few capacitors so the slightest voltage drop from the wall will cause your gpu to crash.
if your lights dim when you run a vacuum cleaner then a external gpu is not the solution for you at-least not with-out a smart line interactive UPS to protect it.
I think the FX-9800p may allow for some sort of option through the USB-C port, but I am not actually sure.
I know one thing that helped for me was to make sure that the setting is on "High Performance", and making sure that there is plenty of ventilation both going in and out. I also replaced the thermal compound with some Prolimatech PK-3, which shaved 10-15C off the temperatures.