Found two GPU card lying around

[Jaw3bmasters]

1. ATI Mobility Radeon X300 (ATI RADEON X300 128MB Card DVI VGA TV Out PCI-E Graphics Video Card 109-A33400-00 Dell p/n F3988)http://www.ati.com/products/mobilityradeonx300/index.html






2. NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6200(EVGA Geforce 6200 NV62AD28-LF Rev 2.0)http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce6200_agp.html





Where to point these old-school badboys?

[phillyj]

to the trash? or ebay?

[mufa23]

to the trash? or ebay?

this

[Jaw3bmasters]

Ok, seriously guys. There must some alt-coin who'd love em, what ya think.....

[mufa23]

Ok, seriously guys. There must some alt-coin who'd love em, what ya think.....

Nope. But if you sell them off, you can use that money to buy a little CPU that could be useful.

[dooferorg]

Where to point these old-school badboys?

LOL.. 'bad boys'.. more like 'old guys'. As others have said, they're unusable for anything cryptography

[Jaw3bmasters]

You know, somehow I refused to believe that.

[CrazyGuy]

Going to do some eBay guessing here. $8.50 for the first one and $14 for the second.

[Quix]

You know, somehow I refused to believe that.

Just remember that anything before the 5000 series isn't worth bothering.

[Bitweasil]

You know, somehow I refused to believe that.

Neither of them is supported under the current runtime environments.

The 8000 series cards were the first nVidia cards to support CUDA, and the 4000 series AMD cards were the first to support OpenCL (and they're very bad at it).

Neither of those cards can be programmed with the current environment, which means to do any sort of work on them, you'd have to muck around with the pre-CUDA/OpenCL compute languages, and even then I'm not sure those cards have any programmable hardware on them - they're old enough that they're likely fixed function.

But, hey, go ahead & prove us wrong.

[dobatron81]

yup, or even craigsList them for a sandwich with an install included.  you can get decent hashing power off used cards on ebay for under $100 USD like i got two 5770's for 150 or so.  they need to be from the last few years and have like 1GB memory and 1000mhz to even hash .0001 coin a day.  Every dog has it's day and gpu's are soon to be as such... :-/

[Jaw3bmasters]

Thanks for the reply guys. Saved me from hacking this thing to pieces

So what can these things do? Surely, there must be something salvageable on those old-timers.

[ssateneth]

Thanks for the reply guys. Saved me from hacking this thing to pieces

So what can these things do? Surely, there must be something salvageable on those old-timers.

... They can output a screen to a computer monitor, and do "ok"/meh 3d rendering.

It is pretty much impossible to do anything related to cryptography with them.

eBay them or trash them/give them away.

[Jaw3bmasters]

The truth finally sinks in.  and I'm out of coffee.

I'll keep em. I always do.