2012 15" HP Envy DV6 (GT630M) [3rd,4C,Q] + RX 580 @ 4Gbps-mPCIe2 (EXP GDC 8.4) + Win10 [Golden Ratio]  

Hi Dude,

I finally got someone with the same kind of my laptop. I need your help for building egpu for me.

Jahir.

Hi, I'm using an Asus Gaming laptop with i7-6700HQ and i wanna set up eGPU with RX 580. My system has:

• i7-6700HQ

• GTX 965M

• 16 GB 2133 MHz DDR4 RAM

• 128 GB M.2 (PCIE) SSD

• 1 TB 7.2K RPM HDD

• Intel® HM170 Chipset

• A PCIE 3.0 Port that the Wi-Fi adapter is plugged

  Thebottlenecker site says me that my cpu will work fine with RX 580 so I wanna know can I use AMD graphics cards with internal monitor. And did you even try using RX 580 with internal monitor?

Hello Fruko,

i tested both eGPU's only on the external display at that time. In the meantime i sold my AMD RX 580 and bought a used AMD RX 480. Both cards are based on the same chip generation (Polaris), so from the performance point of view, this makes no noticeable difference here, because the bottleneck limits the performance of the graphics card.

So i repeated the benchmark test with Battlefield from the first post (of course with deactived dGPU). But this time with Battlefield 5 Testrange and Multiplayer (Conquest with 64 players) on low settings on both displays. Unfortunately i only had a smaller external display with lower screen resolution for testing.

eGPU hardware

• EXP GDC 8.4d, mounted in a simple metal enclosure
• Dell DA-2 220 Watt PSU
• PowerColor Red Dragon Radeon RX 480, 8 GB (eGPU) @x1 2.0 mPCIe2
• Samsung Syncmaster 740BF 17", 1280 x 1024 screen

Hardware pictures

Device Manager for Setup with RX 480 (eGPU)

AIDA64 GPGPU Benchmark with RX 480 (eGPU)

Benchmarks

To keep it short, i could drag the running game (see screenshots) from the external to the internal display. For the screenshots i had to run the game in window mode.

As far as the performance is concerned, the refresh rate drop by more than half on Battlefield 5 Testrange (75>30) and Multiplayer (54>22) when moving the window to the internal screen, which is understandable, because now only half of the original bandwidth is available for transmission for each directions. Btw. i have limited the FPS in Battlefield 5 with v-sync to 75 hz.

Battlefield 5 Test Range with RX 480 on external display	Battlefield 5 Test Range with RX 480 on internal display
Battlefield 5 Multiplayer (Conquest with 64 Players) with RX 480 on external display	Battlefield 5 Multiplayer (Conquest with 64 Players) with RX 480 on internal display

So from a technical point of view you should be able to use an AMD card on the internal display, at least in my case, it worked. As you can see from my test, this is really not recommended due to the huge performance drop.

Very nice and tidy built.

Did you connect it through the Wi-Fi slot?

Thank you very much.
Yes, exactly, via the interface on the underside of the notebook. But I had to tape the cable to the case, because the interior of the case didn't offer enough space to lay the cable internally.

@golden-ratio

Hi! 

Will this EXP GDC work on my HP Dv 7014nr? It's the same chasis than the HP Envy you've showed. I've asked many youtubers but there's no answer to my question.

Thanks in advance.

Hi autococker01,

I could imagine, however, that this would also work for you, since our devices only differ insignificantly from each other. You will probably have no choice but to test it. good luck with it. 🙂 

In case you want to control the exp gdc via the mini pci express interface of your wireless card, it depends on whether your bios allows other wireless cards (whitelist).

@golden-ratio

Thanks! 

By the way, there are some specs i want to show:

Model: HP DV6 7014 NR

Product number: A5F76AV

Serial number: 2CE3014BPS

BIOS (configuration): F.2E - 09/07/2016 (latest)

Thanks in advance!

Well, we have at least the same bios, Insyde F.2E (Revision A). at that time nobody could tell me if it would work on my notebook. So i just tried it out. Like I said, I can't tell you if it works with your notebook. I would just give it a try, since the exp gdc interface is not so expensive. For me it has been worth it, even if you have to make certain cuts in the graphics when gaming, it brings a significant gain compared to the dedicated graphics card.

@golden-ratio

HelloI want to set up E-GPU on my Laptop but I learned that I need to disable my old graphics card from the BIOS. For do this,I guess I need to access Advanced Tab on my BIOS. I looked my BIOS settings but I can't see "Advanced Tab" or "UMA Only" or any option. I think I need a cracked BIOS or E-GPU Setup software without using BIOS options or something.  Could you tell me what should I do about BIOS settings?

My Laptop's features;
Laptop Brand and Model : HP Pavilion DV7 Notebook PC 
CPU : Intel® Core™ I7-3610QM @2.30GHz (8CPUs), ~2.3GHz
RAM : 8GB(8192MB) DDR3
BIOS : Insyde H20 F.2E
DirectX version : DirectX 12
Integrated GPU : Intel® HD Graphics 4000 2GB(1792MB)
External GPU : NVIDIA GeForce GT-630M 2GB 128Bit

@diamond_dog

my advice to you: if you cannot deactivate the dedicated graphics card in bios, which is not really necessary from my point of view, then you only have the option to do it via the device manager in windows. As shown in my screenshot below. You could then use displaydriveruninstaller to completely uninstall the driver of your 630M. But then you have to make sure that windows does not reinstall the driver via windows update after restarting. Therefore I would simply disable the dGPU in the device manager. This works flawlessly.

@golden-ratio

Thanks for your information. I'll try your advices,hope it work successfully. The only thing that worries me is the "WiFi card slot" inside the computer,I think I can find it with a little effort. Now I'm waiting Power Supply and E-GPU tool. I'm gonna try all this after the two get here.

With my DV6-7200 series, the Wifi slot is on the underside, you only have to remove an L-shaped plastic cover, which is fixed by a small screw. If HP hasn't changed the case design, then this should also be the case with your notebook.

I am looking forward to your experience report. To make it clear once again at this point, it is sufficient, to my knowledge, to deactivate the dGPU in the device manager. I can easily play games, watch videos etc. this way.

@golden-ratio

I opened the bottom cover of the computer and see WiFi Slot. So,you're right HP hasn't change the case design 🙂 . I'll try to tear down WiFi Card and attach the EGPU tool. (Power Supply and EGPU tool hasn't arrive to me yet) I'il write the result here 🙂