Extremely Wierd Tech Question. - Hardware & Software

As the title says, this question is extremely wierd. I have a laptop and a desktop. One is using ATI GPU and the other Intel. Both GPUs are shite. Just wondering, is it possible to link these 2 GPUs together without opening up both computers at all? Such as using a cable to link both computers together. I'm hoping to link both GPUs together to improve my graphics capability without prying apart both computers. Thanks.

nope

Haha what?

That's not how graphics processing works

One could think of cloud processing. But no you can't do that.

Must be a console player :lol:

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[QUOTE=iamtroll;30225425]As the title says, this question is extremely wierd. I have a laptop and a desktop. One is using ATI GPU and the other Intel. Both GPUs are shite. Just wondering, is it possible to link these 2 GPUs together without opening up both computers at all? Such as using a cable to link both computers together. I'm hoping to link both GPUs together to improve my graphics capability without prying apart both computers. Thanks.[/QUOTE] Yeah, you just have to solder (or electrical tape) a wire from the PSU (+5 or +12v only!) to the GPU on one PC. This will supply the electricity for the piggy backing of the graphics chipsets. Then take another wire, solder it to the powered GPU and bring it over to the other GPU. This will combine the processing power of both graphics cards. Remember to power down both machines before you start to work on the power supply.

Alternatively, you can take out your hard drive from the laptop and rub a magnet on it, creating a small wireless area where the GPU's can telepathically link without having to use messy wires, as that's confusing work for your typical 9 year old.

No, computers don't exactly work like that.

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Not for games, no. Computers just do not work like that. In fact, there's several things that prevent it from working. To name the biggest two: 1) There is no consumer-level inter-computer connection that is fast enough for that. The connection between the CPU and the video card is a high-bandwidth, high-speed, low-latency bus. Usually 16x PCI Express. Sometimes just 8x, or even the older AGP. However, these are purely internal interfaces - max length for PCIe is about a foot. Theoretically, you could make a set-up that's fast enough if you had InfiniBand or maybe 100G Ethernet, but both of those are probably more expensive than both of your computers combined. 2) Different manufacturers. While graphics cards can be connected together within a single computer, it only works with ones from the same manufacturer. ATI and nVidia and Intel cards do not work together. Same company, sure (ATI and nVidia, at least - NO Intel cards can work together), but not different ones. I'm sure others can point out a million other reasons it won't work, but there's the big two.

Way to kill the fun

I suppose if you wanted to improve your graphical quality but you really didn't wanna open it up, you could always get an external graphics card

[QUOTE=Elspin;30231554]I suppose if you wanted to improve your graphical quality but you really didn't wanna open it up, you could always get an external graphics card[/QUOTE] external graphics cards are a joke

[QUOTE=koeniginator;30231914]external graphics cards are a joke[/QUOTE] Yep. Only one's I've ever seen are those crappy USB ones (that are worse than Intel GMA), or those nVidia rack-mountable ones that cost about $10,000.

I know this is unconventional, but both computers are manufactured such that the components are packed tightly and its almost possible to open them.

It's too bad it won't work. If you were to pair the mighty power of Intel graphics with a low end laptop ATI graphic chipset you'd be able to boost your average framerate from 5fps to 7fps!

Ummm no.

Hey, you could always write a new graphics driver that'll make them work together, each rendering half the screen and using an ethernet cable for intercommunication. Good luck with that!