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Norogo Sep 5, 2016 @ 5:56pm
External GPU's For PC
My dad is interested in gaming on his PC, however his pc is a Dell Inspiron 2350. (One of those touchscreen Dell's with everything built into the monitor). It has 8 gigs of ram and a i5-4200m. So it would be capable of gaming if if had a graphics card. You can't physically add a GPU into the system though, so I was wondering if there are any external GPU docks that are compatible with a PC. Thank-you.

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Air Sep 5, 2016 @ 6:01pm 
It's not possible to do with that PC.
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Norogo Sep 5, 2016 @ 6:04pm 
Originally posted by Air:
It's not possible to do with that PC.
Ok thank you
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Master0fBlunt Sep 5, 2016 @ 6:15pm 
Originally posted by Air:
It's not possible to do with that PC.

You can do it on anything that has a Thunderbolt port...
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Snapjak Sep 5, 2016 @ 6:16pm 
Originally posted by Master0fBlunt:
Originally posted by Air:
It's not possible to do with ------>>>that<<<------ PC.

You can do it on anything that has a Thunderbolt port...
See what Air said?
Last edited by Snapjak; Sep 5, 2016 @ 6:16pm
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Master0fBlunt Sep 5, 2016 @ 6:21pm 
Just had surgery, can't think straight, my bad..
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_I_ Sep 5, 2016 @ 8:32pm 
odds are the aio will not have a tb port
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Master0fBlunt Sep 5, 2016 @ 8:33pm 
Originally posted by _I_:
odds are the aio will not have a tb port

That's wher my money is. Just wanted to clarify on the thunderbolt.
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Bad 💀 Motha Sep 5, 2016 @ 10:24pm 
AIO PC you can't really do anything with. Just like having a cheap Laptop really is basically what those are. Mobile Parts inside an LCD Screen....

Buy or build a decent PC if you want to run Games (or run them better)
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md.zamri71 Nov 3, 2020 @ 8:15am 
My reply may be 4 years too late but just for the fun of it... I too have the same Dell Inspiron 2350 AIO PC. Went with eGPU route and able to breath some gaming capability to this otherwise still properly functioning old PC. Items 1)EXP GDC Beast eGPU dock bought at Banggood. 2) Proper 1UFlex PSU 400watt (depends on the power usage of the external GPU since i used a Rx580 yeah 400watt is more than enough, BTW a proper PCU and dont skimp on an el-cheapo one otherwise lots of BSODs. 3) An external Wifi USB Dongle since the eGPU dock cable need to use the internal PCIe x1 slot. I need to disable the internal AMD 8600 discrete internal GPU to free up some windows 10 resource. Downside, each time AMD Adrenaline driver updates, i need to not use eGPU, re-enable the internal discrete HD8600 GPU, update, restart, disable internal HD8600 back, restart with eGPU... a small price to pay for me 4) A discrete GPU. I used a used AMD Rx580.
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Username Nov 3, 2020 @ 9:27am 
Just for the case, here the currently best Price/performance pc you can buy in germany
https://geizhals.de/?cat=WL-1779884
based on this (selfmade) table
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTmcZ8xGXyhq4lbwmoE4x4iQl5kNPGj8xDoNIiJLK8EQTLTEmFUs8u5JlrVhg469P1NouUKiAWtIx6h/pubhtml

Its a Budget PC, not really strong
Last edited by Username; Nov 3, 2020 @ 9:28am
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