Lenovo Advanced Dock Station- Any PCI Express Card?

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Lenovo Advanced Dock Station- Any PCI Express Card?

#1 Post by dvgeetar » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:25 pm

Hello Lenovo Community,

I'm thinking about getting the Advanced Dock Station so I can run my computer with a different graphics card via the PCI Express Card Capabilites in the Docking Station. Is the Docking Station compatible with absolutely every PCI Express Card on the market or are there limitations? If there are limitations, what are they? If you don't know about this docking station, here's a link: Lenovo Docking Station. I use Lenovo Thinkpad T500 laptop and run Windows Vista SP2.



Sidequestion: I want to be able to run the PC game Star Wars: The Old Republic on my Lenovo T500 laptop, with the docking station also. What PCI Express Cards would you reconmend to play this game?



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Dvgeetar

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Re: Lenovo Advanced Dock Station- Any PCI Express Card?

#2 Post by QWERTY Andreas » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:39 am

I had a long talk with "Wesley" about this - and we concluded that the "AMD Radeon HD 6570" was one of the best card avaible.

It has to be a "low profile" graphics card, which gives a lot of limitations.

Buying windows 7 should also give you quite a perfomance boost.

Best regards

Andreas
Thinkpad W500 (2.53 GHz P8700, 4 GB RAM, FireGL V5700, WUXGA)
Thinkpad T61F 14" (2.53 GHz QX9300, 6 GB RAM, Quadro FX570m 256 MB, SXGA). Advanced dock with AMD Radeon HD7750
Custom build ITX desktop (i5 4590, 8GB RAM, AMD R7 260X, custom watercooling)
Thinkpad 8, Fujitsu F-07C


FS: T61F

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