T420 eGPU on ubuntu?
disclaimer: i am not particularly tech-savvy i dont know a lot neither about linux nor laptop tinkering so please bear with me in your explanations and try to put it in the most crayon-eating terms possible
hey everyone,
i recently brought my old Thinkpad T420 back to life with ubuntu and now i am thinking about upgrading this thing a bit maybe getting a new cpu (i currently have core i5-2520m) but i think the main problem is probably the gpu so i read a bit about egpu's and now i have several questions:
- is it difficult to get the driver's for the egpu going on linux? knowing that some programs just dont work the same on linux like they do on windows i just wanna make sure that i dont end up wasting money on hardware that i can't use
2.which egpu would you recommend? which are compatible with the the T420? i know that the whole thing works via express card docking station but are there certain egpu's which aren't compatible with the whole express card docking?
3.should i stick to intel? given that my cpu is intel and my current gpu(Graphics 3000) is also intel or does this not matter?
do i need anything else or just the express card docking station and the egpu?
do you think i should upgrade my cpu first and then think about getting egpu?