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GPD G1 Review: Compact AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU gives your PC a graphics boost - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
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[–] Alphane_Moon 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While on the surface this seems like a solid offering with many features, the compatibility problems are rather worrying. You don't want to spend $600 and then play the lottery to see if it works with your laptop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

For $600, you might as well build a PC with an RX 7600 XT.

[–] Alphane_Moon 1 points 2 months ago

I don't get the point of using this with one of those ultra compact mini-PC, but I can see a use cases for occasionally gaming on an ultra-light laptop (maybe for your home desk setup with a monitor).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, pro-sumer TB/Oculink gear tends to put a big premium on density and flexible deployment, which results in pricing that seems ridiculous to anyone who isn’t required to teardown, haul, and setup equipment regularly.

I considered getting one of these at a higher price point just to try shucking it for use as an enclosure because it’s so unusually compact. Pretty sure it’s small enough to fit in a pocket of a backpack when most of my enclosures are the size of SFF towers — to accommodate internal PSU, larger cards, etc — so the density would reduce what I have to haul separately by 1.

[–] Alphane_Moon 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

shucking it for use as an enclosure

You mean replacing the 7600M with something else?

My frame of reference for shucking is taking a portable HDD device and extracting the actual HDD for price savings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

lol yeah, I couldn’t think of the right word so borrowed that one. But I suppose we don’t usually shuck oysters and keep just the shells lol. I only meant opening / replacing some of its guts. But I didn’t explore it. It would be wasted effort if, for example, the controllers and interface were all on the same board as the gpu, because then you would still have to get at least a PCIe oculink riser in there, even if you could use original heatsinks.