Interested in installing an external GPU to my Laptop

[maxence822]

Hello!
I am interested in installing an external graphics card to my laptop as a DIY project.
I have the Asus X550LA laptop with 2 GB RAM. I upgraded to 4GB of RAM recently.
Could anyone help me in going about this? I have never done that before and am not entirely certain how to proceed.
Thank you!
Maxence

 

[XxMongermaniacxX]

you need to buy a pci adapter, which will go into your network card slot, then you will need a power supply to power that card. Unfortunately, if you do not have an extra pci slot, you will not be able to play online games, unless you have a usb wifi adapter

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello...1) Have you Googled or Youtube'd a project like this?
2) Do you have a example of a success story with your laptop?
3) Do you have a product in mind that will do this?

 

[maxence822]

I've googled it the only stuff I could find was for early 2010's and earlier, nothing very recent

 

[maxence822]

This one seems good enough: http/www.banggood.com/EXP-GDC-Laptop-External-PCI-E-Graphics-Card-p-934367.html

 

[getochkn]

Most solutions need either a mini pcie slot in your laptop, which yours doesn't seem to have from what i could see looking at the manual, or a thunderbolt port, which again yours doesn't have.

 

[maxence822]

I have a Mini-PCIe port if I take out the Wifi card and use a USB wifi adapter