So we’ve been waiting for this… Yesterday I watched Tech Yes City’s vid in Akihabara where he says that the shop folks tell him the miner dumps are here.

Now I’m seeing K80’s and K40’s on Ebay for $80. This would make a workstation beast. It’s a dual die card from 28nm era with 2x 12GB GDDR5 and 2x 4 TFLOPs. K80 on Ebay

Clearly coming from scalers but maybe they are scared.

If you go ahead and get a server GPU like that like I likely will then go ahead and forward the frames over PCIe. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1340083-guide-using-an-nvidia-tesla-k80-for-gaming-on-windows/

Edit: oops I didn’t give the seemingly good K80 link

  • holdengreenOP
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    2 years ago

    Gaming On An Old Tesla GPU: 980ti Performance for $100?! - Level1Techs

    He’s using a K40 and forcing Windows to treat it as companion laptop GPU that sends frames over PCIe into the integrated graphics framebuffer.

    I use Linux and I don’t have integrated graphics so it would need to go into the framebuffer of another GPU that has a display port… Apparently you need this 4G decoding/resizable bar. I got a cheapo X99 dual socket. zx-du99d4x8 Supposedly that’s in the BIOS??? And the chipset looks to be under a big heatsink so I can’t know for sure where that comes from or what it is…

    • holdengreenOP
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      2 years ago

      $180 for a Gaming GPU Today??? Gaming on an nVidia Tesla K80! - Craft Computing

      In the comments:

      Great Video! I just bought a K40 because of your prior video and I was wondering so bad if a K80 would work in a similar way. There’s only one thing I have to correct you on: you can actually use a dGPU instead of the integrated graphics. I’m running mine through a 960, because I don’t have an iGPU and it works just fine. You have to change the value for EnableMsHybrid to 2 on the dGPU to make it work.

      Are you able to confirm if this works in any variety of Linux? I just might make my next streaming/rendering PC with an old Xeon v4 and one of these! I just don’t run Windows.