>Cousin bought a Nvidia 1080 to use as an external GPU for his Macbook that has a 2.8 i7 cpu
Was this a good idea?
>>54770222
Trips wasted on 9gag meme post
Fuck off
>>54770222
Yes.
>>54770222
sure, CPUs don't make much of difference anyway.
>>54770222
>only 4 pcie lanes
If it's thunderbolt 2 or 3, the bottleneck will be little but if it's thunderbolt 1, then the card will get severely bottlenecked.
>>54770222
How do you even connect that to macbook? He has a razer box tihng?
>>54770257
Dumb meme-spouting faggot. Gaymes are a lot more CPU-intensive these days.
>>54770222
>Was this a good idea?
no, a dual-core cpu will bottleneck the shit out of a card like that
>>54770460
oh really then why can i play far cry 4 with an external gpu on laptop from 2009?
>>54770469
If it's the 15 inch version, it has a dual core
>>54770601
I mean quad core
>>54770469
>>54770601
His is quad core
With how gimped the 1080 will be with an egpu setup, it will be fine with that processor.
>>54770591
>oh really then why can i play far cry 4 with an external gpu on laptop from 2009?
you can play it just fine, but CPU load will be 100% all the time and GPU load maybe 60%
aka literally the definition of bottleneck
>>54770775
yet I can still play it. whereas without the egpu I couldn't have.
>>54770775
The bottleneck with egpus is the bandwidth of the egpu connector, neither the cpu or gpu will break a sweat.
>>54770222
>>54771247
what did he mean by this?
>>54771270
>gaymen on a macbook ever
Cmon, this has to be bait. R-right? Guys?
>>54771542
do you get your memes from 2007, anon?
>>54771811
2002
>>54770222
>shitty ass dual core cpu
>1080
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
Nvidiafags everybody
>>54776464
quad core
>>54776464
Literally illiterate.
AMD Cucks Everybody
>>54777394
He's saying that a retard that would think an external card for a MacBook is a good buy is likely to buy Nvidia. You are the one that is illiterate. Keep on sucking that big green dick.
>No actual explanation of why this is bad
AMD shills
Sounds good to me. I wouldn't use a laptop, much less a Macbook for gaming, but if that's your thing, that's your thing. It'll work well enough for most current games.
