I've been given a box full of AMD FirePro 2270 GPUs (low profile). They are low-end and passive cooled, but otherwise is there anything useful to do with these GPUs? Are they energy efficient enough to be useful for some purpose?
What to do with a pile of low profile AMD FirePro 2270 GPUs?
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If it's a PCIe x1 card, you could keep 1 or 2 for spares.
While back I used one on a X9DRD-7LN4F server MB with broken IPMI & on board VGA. IIRC, those boards don't have x16 slot. Most graphics cards are x16.
Otherwise I don't see a point. You are in S. CA even to use them as space heaters.
While back I used one on a X9DRD-7LN4F server MB with broken IPMI & on board VGA. IIRC, those boards don't have x16 slot. Most graphics cards are x16.
Otherwise I don't see a point. You are in S. CA even to use them as space heaters.
@nthu9280 yeah, they are not 1x, but 16x. one can always cut the end of the PCI-E slot open as an option... but I was thinking whether these might have some value perhaps as compute GPU on a per watt basis? (obviously not for raw compute power) or as VM GPU? idk... i don't even see these on eBay so not sure what they are worth on eBay.
yeah, i thought about that too. @nthu9280 example above is perfect case for that. only thing is, not sure if it is easy to get a full height bracket for this card; i'd need both half and full height brackets to make it a useful "backup GPU" for those occasions.
maybe? idk... a few friends of mine know I can usually "recycle" computer hardware and find new uses for them so they just give me boxes of stuff occasionally. i think i'm just going to see if I can get something for them on ebay...
Promote them as low cost, low wattage cards for retro gaming? Or shrill them to t620 Plus/t730 buyers who might want those extra 2 LCD outs?