There have been all sorts of external devices both for laptops and for desktop computers, starting from external hard drives to DVD burners. However, has there ever been an external graphics card? We thought that the idea of external graphic card had been canceled out but MSI is first to present us the first external graphic card for laptops.
Laptops are great portable solutions for almost everything, but as you know despite their hardware power, they cannot handle complex multimedia such as latest games. Most of the laptops have integrated low-end graphic card that won’t be used for gaming while gaming laptops are quite expensive. Therefore, if you want to turn your standard laptop into a gaming solution you’ll need GUS also known as MSI’s Graphics Upgrade Solution.
In order to use this GUS you’ll have to connect it to you laptop via ExpressCard slot. Inside the box there’s a MSI Radeon HD 5670 1GB graphic card waiting to be used. You can put any other graphic card inside it but due to the power limitations, Radeon HD 5670 is the most that this device can use. Unlike other ExpressCard devices, this one uses more bandwidth than the other ones. MSI has announced that he will continue to produce external graphic cards and that they will be using USB 3.0 in future.
This is a great external graphic card made by MSI and if you want to try it on your laptop you can purchase it for $169 to $229.
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