junk What to do with old graphics card?

[CookieSmash]

I have recovered one of the few working parts of an old pc I used, this was in it and it still Works, but it's totally potato level junk so the question is:

Can Linus Tech Tips come up with a purpose that ISN'T throwing it away or recovering the gold off of the connector?

[littlelegsone]

drinks coaster like how logan off of the tek uses one

[swordsman247]

Put in somebody's  old pc so they can stream Netflix?

[CookieSmash]

3 minutes ago, swordsman247 said:

Put in somebody's  old pc so they can stream Netflix?

That's actually something I could do thanks

But I meant something more silly, stupid or something straight up dangerous for the card?

[Chewique]

Use it as a desk decoration.

[UKWaffes]

I tend to keep cards I have owned, just in case my current one dies. Mainly because my mobo has no onboard video.

 

I did make one dead one I had into a coster. 

[CookieSmash]

2 minutes ago, UKWaffes said:

I tend to keep cards I have owned, just in case my current one dies. Mainly because my mobo has no onboard video.

 

I did make one dead one I had into a coster. 

what do you mean by coster?

[kirby99_2016]

cover it in liquor set it on fire then ask the nice attack helicopter to use its 30mm hack cannon

[swordsman247]

8 minutes ago, CookieSmash said:

That's actually something I could do thanks

But I meant something more silly, stupid or something straight up dangerous for the card?

hmm, make it into a lamp then lol

[TheRandomness]

3 minutes ago, CookieSmash said:

what do you mean by coster?

[CookieSmash]

1 minute ago, swordsman247 said:

hmm, make it into a lamp then lol

THAT could work...

[ShadowCaptain]

24 minutes ago, CookieSmash said:

That's actually something I could do thanks

But I meant something more silly, stupid or something straight up dangerous for the card?

Frisbee it off a bridge

 

 

and film it

[TheRandomness]

24 minutes ago, Chewique said:

Use it as a desk decoration.

Or rip the GPU itself off the card and use that as a keyring.. c:

[imreloadin]

18 minutes ago, CookieSmash said:

THAT could work...

Make it into a necklace and wear it a la Flava Flav style

[brighttail]

If your city has a place where they recycle computer parts, like Linus has shown in Vancouver you can take it there. I usually will take mine to the local school district.  They use them to teach kids how to build computers or they use them in the ones the kids use.

[CostcoSamples]

Use a router to cut a hole in your desk the size of the gpu (but not all the way through the desk), put the gpu in it, and fill it with clear epoxy flush with the top of the desk.  your old gpu is now immortalized in your desk forever!

[Gerr]

1.  Build a server with a Xeon CPU that doesn't have a dedicated GPU and just put this old one in so you have something that a monitor can plug into, even if it's just to do the initial config.

 

2.  If you know it's working, keep it a bench card that you use to troubleshoot systems with as you have a known good card.

[CookieSmash]

On ‎09‎/‎06‎/‎2016 at 6:59 PM, Abyssal Radon said:

Flush it down the toilet and film it? *Sploosshhhhhhhhhh*

I would If the hole was bigger *badum tsssss*

On ‎09‎/‎06‎/‎2016 at 5:20 PM, CostcoSamples said:

Use a router to cut a hole in your desk the size of the gpu (but not all the way through the desk), put the gpu in it, and fill it with clear epoxy flush with the top of the desk.  your old gpu is now immortalized in your desk forever!

That's a surpirsingly good idea, and the profile of the card is small enougth that I could actually get it into the table, but then again I might buy a new table instead of using my old one. I think I'll be buying some epoxy son, now If nly  wasn't so broke atm

On ‎09‎/‎06‎/‎2016 at 5:19 PM, imreloadin said:

Make it into a necklace and wear it a la Flava Flav style

I could wear a part of it as some geeky accessory, that's a pretty good idea.

[SteveGrabowski0]

On 6/9/2016 at 10:01 AM, TheRandomness said:

Shit must be great for keeping your coffee hot.