What to do with old cards?

Jennings · December 23, 2014

I've got a MSI GTX 770, still worth around £170 and I've got no idea what to do with it since I upgraded to a 970.

Anyone got any ideas on places to sell it or anyone interested in buying it?

HeathCliff · December 23, 2014

Gumtree, Ebay or save it for another system when the time comes.

jam1234 · December 23, 2014

Personally I would save it as a back-up or for a second PC

small2cats · December 23, 2014

Gift me the card for Christmas

Imakuni · December 23, 2014

My best advice is to put it inside a free PCI-e slot (even if it doesn't run at 16x) and use it for Folding@home or Boinc. Make use of such good piece of hardware in favor of the world. Provided your PSU can support it, that is.

If the above fails, try to upgrade an older PC in the house (if their PSU supports it as well). Then you get the old GPU and put it inside your machine, to do the above.

If that also fails, you can try selling it online or to a friend.

Or you can keep it as a backup card. You could use it if your card dies, or use it to check for problems in other parts of your PCs, in case something starts to error for unknown reasons.

(Last, you can try Jayz suggestion of smashing a zombie with it, to measure it's endurance, but I really don't recommend that)