So, this card is awesome - it produces a bit north of 1 million points per day on Folding@Home, and chews down 150-200 watts DC. However, that's after a long, windy road of complicated problem-solving. The PCs I use for F@H are on the older side, 2010-2015, being used mostly to power newer GPUs (AMD 2xx-, 4xx, and 5xx's, and nVidia Kepler-era). I slapped this Maxwell-era card in there, and... "Device can't find enough free resources (code 12)". What? Turns out, despite being the same chip as the nVidia 980ti and Titan X (with fuse-on-chip differences, I believe - not able to change its identity since they 'blow fuses' to configure its identity), this card is configured to _require_ an absolutely gigantic memory space in PCIe land. So you can only make this card work if your board supports "Above 4G Decoding" - which seems to have only started to be A Thing on newer boards (none of my pre-2015-era boards - of about 6 I've looked at - have the option). Back then, a single card needing more than 4GB of address space just wasn't a thing. If you can get around that, and enable the "Above 4G Decoding" option, you can pair this with a PCIe-to-CPU 12v power adapter dongle (takes 2x PCIe 6- or 8-pin connectors, and makes 1x "EPS12v" CPU power connector), and a blower+shroud from gpu-mods, and voila. You now almost have a Titan X-class GPU. But you're not done yet. You've got to put the card in WDDM mode before Windows will put games on there to pipe the sweet, luscious graphics over to your integrated GPU for display. Search Reddit for "nvidia-smi put tesla in wddm mode" and you'll find some clues there. Haven't tested that myself - I'm happy running it with folding@home, but I'll probably be testing out its GPU capabilities soon enough. Happy with it, except for the obscure requirement for that "Above 4G decoding" feature which limits what boards it can physically work with! It was never meant for us mere mortals (at this price) anyway, so hey, can't blame them. It also needs a ton of cooling -- and due to the way it's implemented, it's gonna be loud-ish, constantly. With the market the way it is, I'm sure you'll survive.Read full review
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