Ati Xgp

[Zephik]

Does any compatible products even exist? I've never seen them. I was just looking at this netbook a few minutes ago...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115685

And noticed the weird XGP port. Apparently it's for an external graphics solution? So an external graphics card, I think, is what that means? But like I said, I've never seen any XGP graphics cards.

Kind of a neat idea, though. You could technically bring the power of desktop graphics processing power to your portable machine this way. Allowing you to go smaller in portable device size, without sacrificing that area of power.

That's a pretty cool netbook, too. I just hate two things about it. The Ferrari logo and the more than half the rated battery life compared to other netbooks in the $350+ range. But hell, if I could buy a sweet graphics card for it... it still wouldn't be no dream machine because of the pathetically weak dual core processor, but it'd beat the hell out of my current setup. lol (iPod Touch. Lmao)

[knowledgegranted]

There are solutions of XGP cards, I have seen on other forums people having them.

Not sure where to get them now though.


http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/ati-xgp/Pages/ati-xgp.aspx

[x88x]

Interesting, I've never seen an actual product with that. Nice! Like I'm sure you've figured out, it's basically an external PCIe extension. Because it's just an extension of the bus, you can theoretically pair any PCIe card with it, but unfortunately not many have been released by any manufacturers, and the ones I've seen are normally either previous generation or low-end.


Kind of a neat idea, though. You could technically bring the power of desktop graphics processing power to your portable machine this way. Allowing you to go smaller in portable device size, without sacrificing that area of power.

That's the general idea. :D



That's a pretty cool netbook, too. I just hate two things about it. The Ferrari logo and the more than half the rated battery life compared to other netbooks in the $350+ range. But hell, if I could buy a sweet graphics card for it... it still wouldn't be no dream machine because of the pathetically weak dual core processor, but it'd beat the hell out of my current setup. lol (iPod Touch. Lmao)

It would beat the hell out of any netbook too. That Athlon 64 X2 is a pretty capable CPU, more than enough to crush an Atom, anyways. Unfortunately, that also means that it pulls more power, thus the reason for the lower battery life.

What I would love to see is some subnotebooks with powerful CPUs and XGP ports. :D

[BuzzKillington]

Which is a shame because if they made more XGP's I'd jump on it. Instead I've accepted the fact that the 2.26GHz CPU and 9800GTS is getting old and wont be able to play with the new kids so I've migrated over to the 360 for the new games.

[Zephik]

So odd. Some people have them. They've even been tested by review sites. But they are nowhere to be found.

A new and more powerful solution was even mentioned in 2010 CES, but it was nothing more than that. Vaporware, basically.

They even have laptops and XGP solutions that were designed TOGETHER. Where the hell is all of this stuff? It's like it existed for an extremely short period of time, then disappeared completely. Yet apparently Acer is all like, durrr, let's make a netbook with an XGP port for no reason at all.

Sometimes I hate technology. lol It's so frustrating. And it usually something to do with company stupidity. Like not pushing a great product.

I would have probably thought about buying that Ferrari, but definitely not now. Too expensive with no real benefit. A bit more power where it's not needed is not what I need.

[mtekk]

A new and more powerful solution was even mentioned in 2010 CES, but it was nothing more than that. Vaporware, basically.

AMD basically pulled it a while back. Supposedly, they have a more "open" solution coming "soon" (possibly USB3.0 based (it has the bandwidth) or using the standard PCIe external connectors).