After seeing Wendells GPD Win Max 2, and already being in the market for a new laptop I decided to order one for myself.
Placed order Dec22, and was delivered Dec 31st. Since then I ordered a 4tb SSD to replace the 1tb that the model I ordered came with (Now its an external SSD)
The plane is to have a TB dock that has all my IO cables for my desk (Trying to score a deal on a TB 10gbe nic) and the oculink GPU for when I am using it as a desktop.
Once the Oculink dock is built I plan to test it against my Ryzen 7 5800 desktop and see what if any performance loss there is.
Dell WD19TB is the temp Thunderbolt dock I had on hand already.
Ordered Gekry-H3AB-07 powered usb 3.0 hub for $29.20. I think I might need 1 more hub but enough to start with.
SSD upgrade video to give idea on how hard it is to work on
Note the laptop only supports single sided SSDs, thats what lead me ot the Lexar NM790 as best perf / $ compared to 990 pro (other top tier option at time I purchased SSD)
Still has 1 more m.2 slot probably will end up with a 2tb in there at some point.
This seems awesome, look forward to your project updates! I am planning on replacing my gaming laptop with a handheld when it dies, so this is particularly interesting!
Was going to get higher refresh rate and only 1080p but honestly its travel set up so rather have the 1440p for smaller text for if I need to do any work.
Also just took the GPU from my desktop and didnt get the A770 working, but have a ton of other tasks on my plate so maybe one day.
I retrofitted an old thunderbolt eGPU enclosure, drilled some holes and swapped out the thunderbolt board with a cablecc sff-8612 4x to pci-e host board. I also spliced in a variable voltage fan temperature speed governor to drive the case fan (since the oculink board, unlike the old thunderbolt board, doesn’t have any fan headers).
I popped in a 7800xt, and it works amazingly well with my mini pc (8845hs chip).
I ordered a gpd win max 2, and it just showed up. Right now, I’m a little disappointed that I’m not getting nearly the performance of the mini pc with the oculink gpu (tried on both Windows and Nobara Linux). Trying to troubleshoot, but kinda stumped. My only thought is that gpd programmed a very low tdp onto these machines. I’ve only had the laptop a little over a day, so maybe a few more days of searching will yield a solution.
A little more significant for me. Using the same cable, host card, and gpu, I was able to get around 80fps on baldur’s gate 3 (4K, high settings) using the 8845 mini-pc over oculink, and more like 50fps with the win max 2.
A little hunting points me to the vram memory clock being very low. I think it’s a driver bug.
Have you been experiencing phantom stylus clicks resulting in “paste” command or any other touchscreen related issues when running your GPD Win Max 2 with the lid closed?
