Nvidia Said We Couldn't Game On This...

[Brennan Price]

Reckon you could make a Parsec Machine with one? For example, use a hypervisor or set up a VM, ya could have a gaming machine to remote into easily from any location using one of these GPU's. 

[Mainewha]

According to the video, this is the original forum post that you want if you are looking to find the drivers:
 

 

[z31drifter]

Cant you just boot into diagnostic mode and disable driver signatures rather than powershelling it?

[ajoy39]

These cards could easily be repurposed as external Thunderbolt 3 GPUs for laptops. Most laptops that allow external graphics at all already support using them to run the internal display through what I have to assume is a similar method to what you guys are using here since it doesn't use any of the display outputs on the card. 

[mariushm]

Why would you do this, when you can buy regular or mining RX 570 cards (with at least a DVI port) on eBay for as low as 90$ ?

 

You can probably solder a DVI connector from an older card, but most likely the card lacks some surface mount capacitors and resistors around the connector, so you could probably get it working by comparing the values with a reference card, or another card... but it's a lot of effort.

Then you'd probably have to flash the card with another bios, to get the output working.

 

Also, look at the heatsink, doesn't look good to me... seems like a cheaper extruded aluminum one with maybe a couple of heatpipes... not sure how such a card will work running games for loads of hours continuously... mining generally doesn't load the gpu as much as video games, it's more of a memory intensive thing (for some coins).

 

[Brennan Price]

6 minutes ago, ajoy39 said:

These cards could easily be repurposed as external Thunderbolt 3 GPUs for laptops. Most laptops that allow external graphics at all already support using them to run the internal display through what I have to assume is a similar method to what you guys are using here since it doesn't use any of the display outputs on the card. 

I'm pretty sure this still won't be a way around it as you'll still have to install the GPU drivers from the external dock in most situations, therefore the same process would have to be used as in the video. 

[FissionChip]

What about having the card installed just to a VM? Windows 10 is supposed to have the VM "mode" now, I wonder if you could just install the drivers and restart the VM whenever you want to play a game? Not really great for a daily driver, I'm just curious if it'd work and prevent all keylogging or other problems.

[Brennan Price]

5 minutes ago, FissionChip said:

What about having the card installed just to a VM? Windows 10 is supposed to have the VM "mode" now, I wonder if you could just install the drivers and restart the VM whenever you want to play a game? Not really great for a daily driver, I'm just curious if it'd work and prevent all keylogging or other problems.

It might work better if you used it for something like Parsec where you can remote into the machine and get almost native performance as well as a little delay in response time compared to most other methods. Imagine it for LAN gaming though, wouldn't notice a difference to using a full machine really. 

[brandishwar]

Don't completely discount it's use as a compute card, especially for distributed computing via Folding@Home and BOINC. I'll have to keep an eye out for some of these down the line.

[z31drifter]

3 minutes ago, brandishwar said:

Don't completely discount it's use as a compute card, especially for distributed computing via Folding@Home and BOINC. I'll have to keep an eye out for some of these down the line.

I really like the idea of using these cards for F@H. 

[FissionChip]

I can't imagine any modern virus without also considering networking capability. I was thinking about Steam Linking into the PC with the GPU, but it doesn't protect you from whatever awfulness is in the drivers. In the early 2000s I remember everyone getting the same worm virus, and it sucked. That's why I was thinking VM, since it's more isolated, there's literally no network to infect.

[Guest]

Thats actually such a nice video. Can't say how many times I've tried to install a driver and come up with, "Windows has determined better driver is installed" etc. 

[xyameax]

2 hours ago, Sauron said:

Hmm... can we have 16:9? I don't think there's anything to be gained by cutting the top and bottom of the image... or were these recorded at whatever aspect ratio this is?

This is done for mobile watchers are more phones are switching to an 18:9 resolution. It looks wonderful on a Note 9 or iPhone X or most phones they reviewed in the last year. They are only adapting to their viewer base.

[Xyro]

Could you use an old graphics card for display output if your cpu does not have an igpu?

[Exarkun631]

1 hour ago, Alfonso Garcia said:

I got a question. Can i use it with my Alienware Graphis Amplifier and use de laptop display instead?

And what about SLI?  If SWIM already has a GTX 1060 and would like to SLI the Chinese card, would it evn werk bruh?

[Lathlaer]

8 minutes ago, Exarkun631 said:

And what about SLI?  If SWIM already has a GTX 1060 and would like to SLI the Chinese card, would it evn werk bruh?

A normal 1060 doesn't support SLI so why would this one?

[Wh0_Am_1]

1 hour ago, Xyro said:

Could you use an old graphics card for display output if your cpu does not have an igpu?

Probably, people did it RX 580s and free sync.

[ajoy39]

1 hour ago, Brennan_Price said:

I'm pretty sure this still won't be a way around it as you'll still have to install the GPU drivers from the external dock in most situations, therefore the same process would have to be used as in the video. 

Yeah, I just mean that if Nvidia allowed it on the driver end then the leftover stock of these could be sold that way.

[ssersergio]

15 minutes ago, Wh0_Am_1 said:

Probably, people did it RX 580s and free sync.

Do you have something like a guide or something like that? because it could be worth the try to take some random Amd and this gtx to test it, do you think it will work with two nvidia?

[williamcll]

You know what other driver I need to disable driver signing as well?
Steelseries Zboard keyboards.

[Snotrap]

You can't get past the sign up page to actually purchase the card. Well in my case to review shipping costs.

[williamcll]

3 hours ago, NoHrt said:

Ya i found the thread mentioned in the video for the driver.
 

Going to try and get this to work for my P104 cards.

Considering the sell also sells COLORFUL P104s I think it should work.
Here's a link for the P104: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=2013.1.0.0.65373a2fD43p5X&id=566805664726&scm=1007.12144.95220.42296_0&pvid=ac26e2a7-2952-46f4-9ef1-fd87696dbcf7&utparam={"x_hestia_source"%3A"42296"%2C"x_object_type"%3A"item"%2C"x_mt"%3A0%2C"x_src"%3A"42296"%2C"x_pos"%3A3%2C"x_pvid"%3A"ac26e2a7-2952-46f4-9ef1-fd87696dbcf7"%2C"x_object_id"%3A566805664726}
 

Also if you want a MSI P106 here is a link too:it is the same price https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=2013.1.0.0.65373a2fD43p5X&id=567632331354&scm=1007.12144.95220.42296_0&pvid=ac26e2a7-2952-46f4-9ef1-fd87696dbcf7&utparam={"x_hestia_source"%3A"42296"%2C"x_object_type"%3A"item"%2C"x_mt"%3A0%2C"x_src"%3A"42296"%2C"x_pos"%3A1%2C"x_pvid"%3A"ac26e2a7-2952-46f4-9ef1-fd87696dbcf7"%2C"x_object_id"%3A567632331354}

Also don't worry about running out of stock, as seen with the seller's photo of his GPU collection:

[Exarkun631]

1 hour ago, Lathlaer said:

A normal 1060 doesn't support SLI so why would this one?

Oh derp, I meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen 1070s  lololololoz

[Dillinger]

Would this work on a GIGABYTE Z87X-D3H MOBO?

[D-Flexz]

Never knew you could run a card like this. Everyday we learn more.