Rob Beschizza
Gear

What's Inside Asustek's External Gaming Graphics Box?

Remember that magical moment, many years ago, when you first opened an external hard drive and realized it amounted to an IDE-to-USB adapter and a power supply? Same’s true of Asus’s XG Station external GPU, which turns out to be an ExpressCard-to-PCIe adapter board and a power supply, with an Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS stuffed […]

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Remember that magical moment, many years ago, when you first opened an external hard drive and realized it amounted to an IDE-to-USB adapter and a power supply? Same's true of Asus's XG Station external GPU, which turns out to be an ExpressCard-to-PCIe adapter board and a power supply, with an Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS stuffed in by default.

This, in principle, makes it upgradeable to the max, since ExpressCard itself is PCIe-derived, offering 2.5 Gbits of bandwidth: wider than AGP 8x and about a third the pipe that PCIe-16x provides.

So, how's about a barebones version, Asus?

4Gamer.net [4Gamer via The Inquirer]