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Let's say Bitcoin (and all alts) goes to zero because Nakamoto was wrong :). What could I do with 50 GPUs besides selling them, have fun with my kids (and the whole school) or replace my home heater with them?

Any ideas that have been implemented? Like starting a "gaming center" or process proteins...

Crack some WPA passwords...  Mine litecoin...  sell them on eBay.  Let them age in your closet until you dispose of them.

Erm, I think ASICs are going to make your GPUs worthless before something happens to Bitcoin.

You can use them for Folding@Home - protein simulation to try and find cures for diseases.

But if I were you I'd sell the cards, all of them except for maybe 2 or three to have an awesome gaming machine with.

Look for ET.

http://www.space.com/4545-scientists-understand-universe.html

Don't worry your 50 GPUs will definitely die or obsolete before Bitcoin dies if possible

You can use GPUs for factoring very large numbers.

bitcoin is already in stage critical, honestly Id have started unloading the gpu's while the stragglers are still willing to pay 2x retail for old gpu's on ebay...

btc mining has become an elitist sport...

Sell NOW before the new gpus come out and reduce the value on your gpus.

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Mine alt-coins...

http://www.coinwarz.com/
http://www.coinchoose.com/
http://dustcoin.com/mining
http://www.wheretomine.com/

Open up a Computer Cafe for gaming

Offer guantanamo style services to the US govt (arrange all 50 GPUs in a small room with a prisoner, running BTC, the noise and heat after a number of weeks should be enough to break any man).

Sell them quick enough before the market is flooded with newer and better GPUS that ultimately put yours into no purpose

My estimated time of Bitcoins dieing (lets say?) the year: 2020. Don't ask why I think the year 2020. I'm just speculating.
(I hope that doesn't happen) but your GPUS will be no good in 2020.

join 50 monitors to them, and play some big @ss WoW games :)

You can use your graphics cards for ... Oh I don't know...


GAMES?!

or sell them?

or make some furniture

More than you could do with  ASICS

This is the option thay I like the most. Are there any good ideas out there around this? I was thinking of some private "Gaming bunker" with 30 high-end gaming computers and lots of noice coming from Counter Strike's guns :)

Like it?

With ~50 GPUs running 24/7, you could also rent your space for housing reptiles ...

I have a similar problem - I've several old computers too and a cathode ray tv. I even own vinyl records and a few VHS video cassettes. My gameboy is getting rusty.
The past is a terrible and frightening place.

There's this thing called Litecoin...

sell them @ ebay.

So im assuming theres not a clear way out for gpus. Just  try to sell it.

LOL - you still could mine PiPiCoin

own altcoin mining

i like the furniture idea

or turning them into a giant robot

sell as many now while the price of GPU's is still up. Very shortly here the price is going to go down on GPU's with more and more ASIC's hitting users hands everyday and the rising difficultly

mine litecoins

Grow white hair and do shit like doc in Back to the Future

Provide a NSA-like cloud-service for deciphering encryption...

Move to Greenland and see how quickly you can melt a glacier with them.

Only if you put the fans on autofan, otherwise he might just turn the sound into background noise.

Dont sell them, Open up a cool shop where kids can go and play for reasonable prices and make a cafe so people can buy overpriced food and drinks while they play.That should use up about 49 gpus , so i guess ill take the last one as a gift if I have to :)

Put them in a bath tub to bathe in.  :-\ Sell, keep 2 and make a decent gaming rig.

Boinc!

BOINC
X2

Opening net cafe may be a better option as You may have collected the needed to operate one.

Bitcoin and Litecoin cant die they are like Freddy and Jason

You can put them down but THEY KEEP COMING BACK!!!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7k3xzcWuds/Uat2q8DXLWI/AAAAAAAAAd0/k1Ndhq0b0eY/s1600/JasonVoorhees.jpg

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what about ppl with big asic rigs? ??? 8)

think to them, they will have less options then u i guess

GPU are also useful for 3D visualization in real-time, for example Lumion or the Unreal Development Kit. My advice would be to contact some high end architecture firms and tell them you have a load of GPU they could use/rent/buy. They could use them to present real-time presentations to clients. It is not just architecture, medicine, engineering all have potential uses for large amounts of raw computing power. With the amount of GPU you have you could rent to lots of different firms at once. If you were to set up a professional looking website I expect you could attract some top end clients, just make sure you clearly demonstrate the advantages of real time rendering and I bet this would be a good niche. The more I think about this the more I think I should have kept this idea secret lol.

Potential Youtube Research...
Twinmotion
Lumion
UDK Architecture
Owen Prescott ;)

I like the gaming cafe idea - make a deal with starbucks or costa - even better...

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sometimes people makes me sick and want to puke :(

Best ideea :))
+1

Sell some of them while they are still worth something.

Host a server for a game that has a high-demand of computing power on the server side. Or put them to work doing protein-folding or whatever other project BOINC et al offer.

What are the fees for hosting games?

You might want to try your hand at cracking hashes for Bitcoin over at HashBounty (http://www.hashbounty.net/bounties (http://www.hashbounty.net/bounties)) using ocl-Hachcat plus (http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/ (http://hashcat.net/oclhashcat-plus/)).

If you use something like VirtualCL (http://www.mosix.org/txt_vcl.html (http://www.mosix.org/txt_vcl.html)), you could distribute the work to multiple computers, allowing you to fully utilize all of your GPUs.

we must understand how get profit from heat of mining gpus...  ;)

Amazing the problems we now have.. that a few years ago we didn't have.. Were changing the world!  ;D

I think the real good alternative is to sell them for money.

Couldnt you use them as servers for gamers etc..  or get with a server based company maybe they could help you out.  set them up as game servers to host online games or something like that im guessing what else could you do keep mining.  Web servers or game servers maybe thats still a lot of power that can be used why throw them out but a big waste of energy.  Still think they might be useful though.  Can upgrade mobo and still use them somehow or sell them on ebay easiest thing to liquidate without future headaches.

You should be mining Litecoin or another Scrypt altcoin long ago.

For my peace of mind, I'll just put into ignore anyone who falls into this...

Depending on how powerful they are I bet you could set up a render farm with them, I think you'd need full computers to go with them for that though.

Sell them. Or mine lite coin..
Haha I joke ;-)
Amazing how many people don't actually read the posts properly!
Make an awesome virtual reality center! My old uni had one. Was awesome :-)

What is a virtual reality center?

Do you have some additional data regarding render farms? Im talkng about 7950 sapphire gpus.

Mining Litecoin or other alt

another one bites the dust.

and it's 7 people in this thread that can't fucking read.

Point the cards to the MilkyWay@HOME project, or one of the other BOINC projects that support GPU. They often require double bit precision cards though. To find out if your card supports double bit precision or just single bit, refer to the ATI/AMD GPU list on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units

Of course though its donating cycles, electricity and operating costs to charity and for science, so you won't see any money from it. Sometimes there are prizes for competitions on some projects but to my knowledge none of them provide reimbursement for the work done (at least none that would approach break-even).

If bitcoin (and all alt coins) go to zero, then sell off some of your GPUs, keep the best, use the money to buy 6 kick-ass monitors, and go crazy with Eyefinity playing games. :)
 
That's what *I'd* do, anyway.