When XG Station, the world's first external graphics for notebooks from ASUS made their first appearance over at CES back in January, it has stirred up huge interests from the media and consumers.
ASUS plans to bundle and sell the EN7900GS graphics card together with XG1 to avoid any compatibility issues.
Since XG1 is linked up to the labtop through the ExpressCard slot, therefore the graphics card slotted into the PCIe x16 slot inside the XG1 has a reduced bandwidth from full x16 (4GB/s in each direction) to just x1 (250MB/s in each direction).
Regarding the facts above, will the performance of the PCI-E graphic card reduces significantly compare to mating the mentioned PCI-E graphic card with desktop board? Also is that worth for us to consider it since it required external display panel where the LCD screen on labtop cannot be connect via this device?

First external sound card, now this. Things are looking up laptop owners with $ to burn..


Its produces both video and audio output supporting Dolby..
more detailed pics here

http://www.engadget.com/photos/hands-on-wi...n-external-gpu/

cheack out the connector..

This post has been edited by CarlVlad: Mar 5 2007, 09:08 PM


Attached thumbnail(s)

erm.... someone has alr posted this up.. old news dude.

Repost.

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=393974&hl=

not repost laa

i posted last month is jus unveiling..this new news is preview..coming out real soon

Oh dude! Thx 4 ur explanation here, if not here got a lot of SMF blame me for spamming. Since there r still no actual figure on benchmarking, so i assume d performance of this device sure go downward. Heard that Asus also in process of planning for next generation of XG Station which offer full x16 bandwidth. Maybe more worth for us wait for the next solution.

This post has been edited by jcliew: Mar 7 2007, 09:39 AM

looking forward for this... hopefully the price won't be too pricy...

there is no other thing like this one...myb the price really expensive

Anyone have any idea when is this thing exactually gonna be in our market?
Herm.. Wonder how long summore we need to wait..

imagine external 8800GTX............

Are XG station available in market yet?

Asus is good in introducing mew stuff and no follow up! im still waiting for news regarding EEE pc. both XG station and EEE px are quite new and big but they just left it as it is

Though it's a repost, this is the first time I come across this

No need to see benchmark...

Just click on the link... see the results under PCI-E x1

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/27/pci...aling_analysis/

So is this thing coming out anytime soon? It's going to be a major factor in my decision on whether to include a dedicated GPU in my purchasing decision tomorrow.

Nah, get an integrated 8600 GT M or Mobility 2600XT (if that's out now; I think so)

x1 interchange through Expresscard = lower performance compared to current midrange!