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Spare GFX Card - What to do?

Megan
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So I have a spare Nvidia GFX card ( I can't recall what it is right now ) but I'm wondering what to do with it?

 

I could use it as a Phys X card but very few games I play support it so it seems pointless to do that.

 

One idea I have is to use it as my "main" gfx card and use my other 960's for other things such as Hashcat

 

But does anyone else have any suggestions?

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So I have a spare Nvidia GFX card ( I can't recall what it is right now ) but I'm wondering what to do with it?

 

I could use it as a Phys X card but very few games I play support it so it seems pointless to do that.

 

One idea I have is to use it as my "main" gfx card and use my other 960's for other things such as Hashcat

 

But does anyone else have any suggestions?

Or use it for Folding@home or Boinc.

BOINC Setup:
i5 7200U @ Stock

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i3 2330M @ Stock

i5 3210M @ Stock

 

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sell it maybe?

Using a dedicated Physicsx card is useless nowadays BTW

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sell it maybe?

Using a dedicated Physicsx card is useless nowadays BTW

 

Yeah I agree it is useless, especially with how little supported it is too.

 

Or use it for Folding@home or Boinc.

 

Could do. 

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Yeah I agree it is useless, especially with how little supported it is too.

 

 

Could do. 

At least it would be for something useful ^^

BOINC Setup:
i5 7200U @ Stock

Core2Duo T6600 @ Stock

i3 2330M @ Stock

i5 3210M @ Stock

 

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Yeah I agree it is useless, especially with how little supported it is too.

 

It depends on what you might have going on in the near future, if you plan on building another system in the near future, it might be a good idea to just keep it, but if its just going to collect dust for the next couple of years or more, I would just sell it.

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Biuld a cheap pc and put it in it and bitcoin mine

Not worth it anymore

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i5 3210M @ Stock

 

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Run all the monitors.

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keep as spare .. never know when the the a card might go boom ... 

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Yeah I agree it is useless, especially with how little supported it is too.

 

*cough* it isn't supported because Nvidia unlike AMD makes everything closed-source *cough*

 

Biuld a cheap pc and put it in it and bitcoin mine

You would lose money on the power bill.

Don't care about power and you still want to do it? Well too bad. Mining with GPUs aren't a good option anymore. Why? Because of ASIC hardware.

ASIC pretty much JUST mines. Doesn't run an operating system like windows 7 (as far as I know) or anything else(like those hundreds of background processes). This allows it to mine with full power AND the hardware is optimized for bitcoin mining.

@Megan what card is it? It would be more helpful if you told us, so we would know approximately how powerful/weak it is.

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Use thermite on it. ^-^

 

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either sell it ( if worth anything ) or fold on it.

 

Dedicated physx is useless right now .

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