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?

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