Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU?

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Post by guard0g » Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 10:07 AM UTC

angrais wrote: post #15

guard0g wrote: post #9

Use it for a multi-monitor setup? I've got 8 monitors connected to my desktop thru two old GPUs.

What do you use 8 monitors for?

Monitors: 1 - slack, teams, discord 2 - email, zoom 3 - markets monitor 4,5,6 - streaming news, tv 7, 8 - coding/work

I have the monitors mounted, stacked 2x2 on each side and tilted forming a semi-circle.

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU?

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Post by technobabbler » Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 11:26 AM UTC

krnlpnc wrote: post #16

angrais wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you use 8 monitors for?

To look at 8 HN submissions at the same time

7 max, and a dashboard on the 8th to tell you what you're looking at on the other 7

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU?

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Post by epirogov » Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

fancyfredbot wrote: post #4

I'd suggest installing an old version of CUDA and pytorch using it for machine learning anyway? It's still possible to learn the principles with an older GPU like this, although you'll get less than half the performance of a bottom of the range Ampere.

Every time I tried this way, because of no budget, I got obsolete apis and libs include old glibc, old linux versions to return to GPU age, hours of compiling from the sources to run on new hardware and kernel. As a reward you will get a lot of internal knowledge but rare chanse to see CUDA and pytorch works as expected.

Re: Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU?

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Post by kimown » Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 8:51 AM UTC

Hackintosh GTX780