pau164
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Other than selling them, are there any cool projects that can be done with an old graphics card? Hopefully, I'll soon be able to upgrade from my 980 (04G-P4-2983-KR) to a 3080. I was thinking of maybe doing an HTPC build with the 980. I also remember reading an article where someone used an old graphics card to handle physx exclusively. It actually resulted in worse performance :P But I think stuff like that is really interesting.
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javelina1
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/10/05 14:57:09
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I do a lot of hand me downs. My prior gaming rig, has a 970 and pushes the Rift CV1. My grand kids come over and enjoy playing the virtual roller coaster and such.
Once I get my new G2 and 3080, I'll push my 1080SC and Rift S over to the hand me down rig. Then I'll need to figure out what to do with the CV1 and 970 GPU....
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/10/07 19:27:55
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Like javelina1, I pass my rigs or cards down to my kids. I used to add my old cards to my FAH folding farm.
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/10/11 17:15:17
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perman088
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/10/13 21:56:27
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pplshero54
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/10/21 12:15:27
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I would keep an old card around to troubleshoot if my video card dies. Once it happened to me and I had to borrow a video card from a friend to swap in and verify that was the problem before ordering a new card. Would have saved me a week if I had a spare.
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dottjonez
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I run them in as high of SLI as possible, lol.
2020/10/21 22:34:52
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I run them in SLI and see if it crashes the system or if it will even post. You should try it if you have more than one.
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/11/17 21:01:29
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They upgrade the others family PC's
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/11/18 16:16:00
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I used to be very generous with all of my extra/old tech, until the day I actually needed like four VGA to DVI adapters (go figure). So now, I usually keep all of my old components and turn them into little servers for various tasks - you never know when you're going to need to use another computer to debug driver level code.
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/11/25 20:00:08
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I’ve got 4 spare fans ile trade ya
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/11/26 19:16:50
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Use them when my graphic cards broken
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/11/28 01:33:35
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It's always good to keep your spare card just in case your main one dies.
Nowadays hardware is very fragile.
I know from value source that those never series of Nvidia cards are much less failure-free than old series of cards (not sure about series 3000 yet though).
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/11/28 10:23:29
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I have an old 7950GX2 that is currently a shelf display, but I want to mount it in a shadow box and make it wall art.
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/12/03 00:10:59
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just building second desktop?
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/12/11 08:57:13
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I keep them. The oldest i currently have are two 9800 GTX+ cards that someday im going to try and make a Windows XP SLI build with.
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/12/11 15:37:41
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Retired my last card to a living room home theater media streaming pc. Much faster than a amazon fire stick and more versatile paired with VLC player and watching travel and wedding videos
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/12/12 02:57:00
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perman088
Sell them on ebay.
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/12/17 19:06:49
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I've been having the thought of learning to overclock. As it's my only GPU I'm hoping I can buy or win one of these new ones to learn to overclock. It's pretty cool, like tuning an engine.
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/12/18 11:30:43
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Always keep a spare on hand
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Re: What do you do with your old graphics cards?
2020/12/19 02:28:28
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I don't have a lot of old cards... the one I'm still using most of you guys probably already replaced in the 4th generation. So if I ever get a new one, I'll just keep the old one in case the new one breaks. I wouldn't really get any money for it anyway.
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