tbone4690
06-10-2007, 04:19 PM
MSI's Luxium external graphics solution spotted
Posted Jun 10th 2007 3:11AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Gaming, Laptops, Peripherals
Although external graphics on a laptop were once a pipe dream, things are starting to come together for those yearning for desktop-style graphics processing on a mobile machine. MSI's first shot at the solution is apparently dubbed Luxium, and our Chinese brethren were able to steal a few shots from the display kiosk at Computex. Details are a bit scant at the moment, but the device will apparently provide a PCI-e to ExpressCard interface to get your desktop GPU interfacing with your lappie, several USB ports, a "USB to LAN" connector, S/PDIF in / out, optical audio input, and 7.1-channel Dolby Digital support. Yeah, we can't wait to see the benchmarks on this one either, but for now you'll have to be content with tapping the read link and taking a good first look at this promising product.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/10/msis-luxium-external-graphics-solution-spotted/
This seems interesting, I hope they can pull it off. Some good maybe more powerful graphics cards could come out of this. If graphics companies were abel to have a gpu run outside and on power from an outlet then they could make some powerful cards.
Posted Jun 10th 2007 3:11AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: Gaming, Laptops, Peripherals
Although external graphics on a laptop were once a pipe dream, things are starting to come together for those yearning for desktop-style graphics processing on a mobile machine. MSI's first shot at the solution is apparently dubbed Luxium, and our Chinese brethren were able to steal a few shots from the display kiosk at Computex. Details are a bit scant at the moment, but the device will apparently provide a PCI-e to ExpressCard interface to get your desktop GPU interfacing with your lappie, several USB ports, a "USB to LAN" connector, S/PDIF in / out, optical audio input, and 7.1-channel Dolby Digital support. Yeah, we can't wait to see the benchmarks on this one either, but for now you'll have to be content with tapping the read link and taking a good first look at this promising product.
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/10/msis-luxium-external-graphics-solution-spotted/
This seems interesting, I hope they can pull it off. Some good maybe more powerful graphics cards could come out of this. If graphics companies were abel to have a gpu run outside and on power from an outlet then they could make some powerful cards.