TL;DR: Is there any use for a still running old Graphics Card like the GTX 9800 (not 980, 9800) ...

[G+_John Mink]

TL;DR:

Is there any use for a still running old Graphics Card like the GTX 9800 (not 980, 9800) apart from using it for scrap?

 

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I'm a bit behind on KH episodes (should I have started with "forgive me father for I have sinned"?) but I'm curious to know what you recommend for old graphics cards

 

I mean, I've built a PFSense router, a NAS4FREE box (still working on #2), and a Linux "server", mostly out of spare CPU/RAM/MoBos.

 

But I still have my old 9800 GTX Black Edition. It's working fine, but I just don't think it's worth the power it takes to run that card at this point!

 

The only thought I had was to tear the card apart, maybe use the heatsink & such for a project? Just wanted to see if there's any benefit to keeping an old card like that intact before I start breaking ot down....

 

Thanks in advance?

[G+_Reed Hanson]

Here is a list of where most GPUs, fit in the grand scheme of things.

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

 

The 9800GTX still has some life to it, faster then some of the new integrated processors still.

[G+_Eddie Foy]

Hashcat!

 

Can even run it on your PFSense box.  When deligated to use just the GPU the CPU is barely used.

[G+_John Mink]

Eddie Foy? two things:

1) "hashcat" ^_^

 

2) How would a PFSense box even use a GPU? I'd be curious if you could expand on that a bit. Plus I don't think of PFSense as being, well, ANYTHING intensive....

[G+_Eddie Foy]

John Mink PFSense wouldn't utilize the GPU, thats why stick it in there so hashcat can.

PFSense running DPI would be rather intensive.

[G+_John Mink]

Oh, I gotcha. Hashcat + PFSense in one box! That did not click when I read your comment earlier