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A comment on Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU?.

Re:Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU? by khoobid_shoma on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:00AM (#30661789)
What happens to the next GPUs you buy?

I have wasted a lot of money buying nVidia GPUs. They used to be quickly outdated for different reasons (e.g. unsupported by the next versions of CUDA). I decided to stop buying new ones until I really really need a modern GPU. Now, that's around 7 years, I am happily away from nVidia GPUs. If needed, I would get a GPU instance on cloud. The same issue is with Apple iPads (my iPad One still looks new but software upgrade is not supported anymore).

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Re:Ask HN: What to Do with an Old GPU? by jupiterelastica on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:39AM (#30662196)
It is the first and only GPU I ever bought. Since it is the most expensive part in a PC, I have also kept to the "do I really really need it?"-mantra and have never upgraded it.

With this PC I will not be doing anything anymore, I believe. I just don't have a use for it. So I guess I will follow the advice of most comments here and just sell it after all :)

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