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Post Date: 2014-10-30
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    Posted: 30 Oct 2014 at 6:50am
I am considering purchasing a Digital Storm Krypton laptop, to use as my new Desktop at home.  I would like to use a docking station/Port Emulator.  What would you guys recommend using with the DS laptops?

Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
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Are you looking for something with tons of USB 3.0 ports, ethernet, audio, etc?
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I haven't actually needed a docking station yet with my Krypton.  It has quite a few ports as it is: HDMI, DisplayPort, DisplayPort Mini for video, 4 USB ports (most or all of them 3.0), Firewire, and several audio ports for multi-channel speaker setups.

Right now I have my old CoolerMaster SF-19 laptop cooler hooked up to one of the USB ports, and that gives me 4 more USB 3.0 ports and I'm not even using the cooling fans, just the ports.  And I have my monitor plugged into DisplayPort on the laptop with the capability of plugging in another through HDMI, I think.

So as Nav asked, what kind of ports do your need?  Not everyone's going to be the same, so my kind of setup may definitely not work for you.
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Thank you both for responding to me. 

I am a little bit of a nub... so bear with me.  I wasn't really looking at the docking station to expand the number of ports I need, it was for convenience.  I'll be taking the laptop to work with me each day, and I would rather  not have to unplug a bunch of peripherals and the monitors.  I'd rather just be able to go from bag to desk; plugging in 1 cable to have everything hooked back up. 

I just wanted something that I could use with my dual monitor display, that wouldn't affect my FPS.  Pure Convenience at this point.

Thanks for any help or suggestions you guys have.
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