Decklink in a laptop's expresscard slot?
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:05 am
Hi everyone,
I recently learned about the magical things one can achieve with a laptop's expresscard slot; mainly the "ghetto" eGPU configurations using one of these babies:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0725 ... 6d8a130a8d
I've been wanting to turn my Lenovo P50 into a more editing/grading capable machine while still keeping it as portable as possible. Mine has Quadro M2000M, which is quite amazing for video work, but I've come to the conclusion that it won't do the job with HEVC/h.265; I'm battling with green video in viewports. Nvidia's Pascal GPUs promise excellent HEVC hardware encoding, so I'd like to attach one of those to my laptop.
While contemplating the idea of building one of these expresscard eGPU monstrosities, it occurred to me: could it be used for my Decklink Studio 4K instead?
Why? Well, I'd want to avoid buying two Akitio TB3 Nodes, cause that, while cool, would utterly defeat the purpose of a laptop -- well not utterly since it's still a powerful computer on the go. But I'd like to be able to do HEVC and basic monitoring without carrying hardware worth a small desktop computer.
What I'm not so sure of is whether a Decklink would still require external power supply using the expresscard slot (I know it doesn't inside a desktop). Anyone have a definite answer to this? Because in that case, two daisy chained Akitio Nodes with their own power supplies would make more sense, of course.
Thanks for reading and any advice!
I recently learned about the magical things one can achieve with a laptop's expresscard slot; mainly the "ghetto" eGPU configurations using one of these babies:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0725 ... 6d8a130a8d
I've been wanting to turn my Lenovo P50 into a more editing/grading capable machine while still keeping it as portable as possible. Mine has Quadro M2000M, which is quite amazing for video work, but I've come to the conclusion that it won't do the job with HEVC/h.265; I'm battling with green video in viewports. Nvidia's Pascal GPUs promise excellent HEVC hardware encoding, so I'd like to attach one of those to my laptop.
While contemplating the idea of building one of these expresscard eGPU monstrosities, it occurred to me: could it be used for my Decklink Studio 4K instead?
Why? Well, I'd want to avoid buying two Akitio TB3 Nodes, cause that, while cool, would utterly defeat the purpose of a laptop -- well not utterly since it's still a powerful computer on the go. But I'd like to be able to do HEVC and basic monitoring without carrying hardware worth a small desktop computer.
What I'm not so sure of is whether a Decklink would still require external power supply using the expresscard slot (I know it doesn't inside a desktop). Anyone have a definite answer to this? Because in that case, two daisy chained Akitio Nodes with their own power supplies would make more sense, of course.
Thanks for reading and any advice!