Comments on: External Video Cards

By: Logan

Logan — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:31:21 +0000

I wasn’t aware that any external video cards were already being sold. At least none that inhance your gaming visuals. The only ones I have seen for sale are ones that just allow you to add more monitors, not inhance or upgrade your graphics. Does anyone know the names of external video cards that would make gaming better?

By: tom

tom — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:32:28 +0000

I have been using the VT Book with my ThnkPad T60 with VERY poor results. The card seems to freeze up my system from time to time and I am forced to reboot. I have tried to email their support but they are based somewhere in Europe and their responses have been very delayed (took me 2 weeks to get a response) and the support did not resolve my issue.

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND VT BOOK. Especially not if you are using it in a mission critical environment (stock market trading).

I wish the ASUS product would be on the market…still waiting for it to appear in the retail environment!

Any thoughts?

By: david

david — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:56:10 +0000

yo is their a way to use some of your hard drive as video ram in ubuntu?

By: Jonathan Politi

Jonathan Politi — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:44:34 +0000

Hi Chris.

There are 3 external video solutions that I know of for laptops.

The VTBook fits the PC Card slot and has 32 megs of video ram, allowing a second or 3rd monitor (depending operating system, you can add 2 monitors with an adapter) in addition to the LCD and the built-in external VGA output.

Matrox puts out 2 external boxes called “DualHeadToGo” and “TripleHeadToGo” which plug directly into the vga port and then split the signal, allowing you 2 or3 monitors off of a single vga signal. It works on both laptops and desktops.