Troubleshoot Can I connect a tower to a laptop for more processing power?

[maxoray]

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I would like to connect my very old tower (a Gateway SX2370-UB30P) to my laptop (Microsoft Surface Laptop). I want to do this so I can have an extra monitor, and have my laptop handle the stress of streaming and my desktop handle the stress of gaming. Is this possible? If so how would I set it up?

 

[vtqhtr413]

Interesting question, looking forward to hearing from a member with this knowledge.

 

[AlanOstaszewski]

I would like to connect my very old tower (a Gateway SX2370-UB30P) to my laptop (Microsoft Surface Laptop). I want to do this so I can have an extra monitor, and have my laptop handle the stress of streaming and my desktop handle the stress of gaming. Is this possible? If so how would I set it up?

Eh. No. You can attach an eGPU (an extra graphics card) to laptops, but your laptop doesn't have Thunderbold. External Graphics Enclosure - Razer Core V2
I've never seen how you can connect two PCs together.

 

[Local Host]

You can get a capture card for streaming, you won't be able to connect both PCs the way you want.

 

[Digerati]

Nope. You would need a 3rd computer to act as a server handing off tasks to the two connected computers - sort of a distributed computing project. But this type project would not improve your gaming experience.

If you want two monitors, your Gateway PC supports two as is. Or you could add a graphics card to it for better graphics processing. It looks like it came with 4GB of RAM and 64-bit Windows so you could probably double the RAM easily too, for more power.

However, to support the added demands of a better graphics card, you likely will need to upgrade the power supply too since according to these specs, it only came with a 220W supply.