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I have an old desktop, which contains an old Nvidia GPU that I would like to use with my new laptop.
I have 1 USB 3.0 slot on my laptop, and the GPU requires a PCIE slot.
So my question is: Is there a PCIE to USB 3.0 converter I could use?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
0x22fe
Posted 2015-06-03T04:52:03.477
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There are PCIE to USB3.0 converters, but there are not USB3.0 to PCIE converters. In other words, you can plug a USB host card into a PCI-E slot, but you can't connect a PCI-E device over USB. You wouldn't want to anyhow - USB 3 is 5 GBit/s max, PCI-E 2.0 x16 is 8 GB/s. When you add in the significant lag you would get from converting the signal, it wouldn't be acceptable for graphics performance.
nhinkle
Posted 2015-06-03T04:52:03.477
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Desktop GPUs are not designed to be used in the way you want to use them. External GPUs do exist. Additionally even if there was a PCIE to USB 3.0 convert, it wouldn't power the device, USB 3.0 cannot provide enough power for most interal desktop GPUs – Ramhound – 2015-06-03T11:26:53.297