2012 15" HP Pavillion DV6 (HD6620G) [A8,4C,M] + GT 1030 @ 2Gbps-mPCIe1 (EXP GDC 8.x) + Win10  

Thank you for your build.

Pls consider posting CUDA-Z bandwidth pics and some benchmark runs like 3dmark so we see how well it performs.

This is requested in the build template.

@nando4, 

Thank you for organizing my pictures with my post.

Soon as i figure out to use that  other software you link ill post it.

Here are the 3d benchmark from Valley meanwhile:  low settings  1366 x 768 resolution full screen.  I paly New world in windowed mode low settings 1028 x768 resolution for reference.

sorry for delay

I got around to finding a  cuad z i could download (your link did not work)

Here is plain text export as i was running  Game New world at 1024 x768 resolution all video setting to low:

CUDA-Z Report
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Version: 0.10.251 32 bit http://cuda-z.sf.net/
OS Version: Windows AMD64 6.2.9200
Driver Version: 497.09
Driver Dll Version: 11.50 (30.0.14.9709)
Runtime Dll Version: 6.50

Core Information
----------------
Name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
Compute Capability: 6.1
Clock Rate: 1506 MHz
PCI Location: 0:2:0
Multiprocessors: 3
Threads Per Multiproc.: 2048
Warp Size: 32
Regs Per Block: 65536
Threads Per Block: 1024
Threads Dimensions: 1024 x 1024 x 64
Grid Dimensions: 2147483647 x 65535 x 65535
Watchdog Enabled: Yes
Integrated GPU: No
Concurrent Kernels: Yes
Compute Mode: Default
Stream Priorities: Yes

Memory Information
------------------
Total Global: 2047.69 MiB
Bus Width: 64 bits
Clock Rate: 3004 MHz
Error Correction: No
L2 Cache Size: 48 KiB
Shared Per Block: 48 KiB
Pitch: 2048 MiB
Total Constant: 64 KiB
Texture Alignment: 512 B
Texture 1D Size: 131072
Texture 2D Size: 131072 x 65536
Texture 3D Size: 16384 x 16384 x 16384
GPU Overlap: Yes
Map Host Memory: Yes
Unified Addressing: No
Async Engine: No

Performance Information
-----------------------
Memory Copy
Host Pinned to Device: 122.251 MiB/s
Host Pageable to Device: 111.801 MiB/s
Device to Host Pinned: 154.578 MiB/s
Device to Host Pageable: 141.485 MiB/s
Device to Device: 18.3206 GiB/s
GPU Core Performance
Single-precision Float: 1196.54 Gflop/s
Double-precision Float: 28.7665 Gflop/s
64-bit Integer: 38.1092 Giop/s
32-bit Integer: 427.467 Giop/s
24-bit Integer: 320.958 Giop/s

Generated: Mon Jan 24 12:46:46 2022

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not sure what all this means but  at least i can play new world  relatively well.

UPDATE:

This build is no longer working.    After a few  win 10 updates  the eGPU is now  always grayed out and only seen in the show hidden option in device manager.

1)  have tried   full wipe and reinstalling from  back ups before i  install the eGPU.    Then following same steps and still will not work.

2) Hot plugging crashes the pc 

3)  AMD chip so cannot use that special program  you can donate for.

4)  I  tried multiple time  to start with  wifi card in place  then  reboot and take out wifi card and add the eGPU  no luck.

5)  I have tried to start with wifi card in place  boot into computer sit 5 min.   Shutdown take out wifi card connect the eGPU cable   only and booted in.  Connect to eGPu scan for hardware changes not detected.

6) wifi card in place   booted in  update bios  when system shutdown change to eGPU.     restart system  it crashes on start up saying problem with bios like the board battery little round one was not there.

Any suggesttion would be appriciated.

Suggest create a Ubuntu Live USB stick, boot it and see if the Nvidia eGPU is activated. Can use 'lspci -n| grep 10de' at the xterm prompt to see if it detected on the PCI BUS and so the eGPU hardware is OK.

In that way you remove Win10 updates as a possible contributor for causing the failure.

Hello all

I finally had some time to putz around with this lap top.   Borrowed one of my friends AMD based video card  Rx 6500 XT.

 Could not get the amd rx6500 xt to work.

Found problem:   

Turns out my beast mini pcie cable was not working /broken.  If i moved this cable a little the fan on the AMD card would come on,  but card still not detected.

So I opened the cable  up at the black rubber material right behind the  pcie card part.   Sure enough on of the little wires was frayed broken.   I have ordered a new dock and  cable   just to make sure will update this  post when i get new  dock and cable.

Hello everyone

Just want to report that my  sytem an eGPU  are working again.

Updating original post with newer info.

ps

I will test my friend AMD card  when i can get the  atx power cable that goes from dock to card as  i could not get it work without it( power supply 6 pin was connecte3d to card)