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Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU?

Hello all,

for many months my custom bulit gaming PC from 2014 has been sitting around my appartment, not finding any use. I am working mostly on my laptop from work nowadays and I stopped playing games for the most part. The GPU is a Nvidia GTX 780.

Recently, I started using machine learning tools on my work laptop and realized I have a reasonably strong GPU sitting around - or so I thought. Looking up the requirements for pytorch I found that the GTX780's CUDA version has long since lost support and now I wonder what to do with the GPU, or even the whole system, as gaming is not important to me anymore and for an ML box it's too old apparently.

I know I could sell it, but I'm wondering if anybody might have ideas on what such old hardware could still be used for?

Cheers, - V

Edit: spelling

19 points jupiterelastica 4 years ago 23 comments

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