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I've been waiting for someone to tell me what I can profitably do with the 120,000+ 470/480/580's that I have sitting around doing nothing. It sounds like you h
by latchkey 3y ago
I've been waiting for someone to tell me what I can profitably do with the 120,000+ 470/480/580's that I have sitting around doing nothing. It sounds like you have an idea?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoCrack passwords, also there was this craze a few years ago, where people were using their GPUS to crunch numbers and earn money, I forgot what it was called ... something with mines.
- latchkey 3y agoRight... any legal ideas you have?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoCracking passwords is legal if you obtained the hashes legally as part of your pentest conttract. So is shitcoin mining. But you seem dead set that there are no uses for ROCm so I'll leave you there.
- latchkey 3y agoIf the best you can do is 'password cracking' as your answer, you're obviously not very well versed in things. Plus, you don't need ROCm to crack passwords.
- quickthrower2 3y agoGood luck trying to make enough money to pay for power let alone capex
- rizky05 3y ago[dead]
- Arelius 3y agoI mean, I'm using ROCm for VFX rendering. But regardless i'm not sure that cards as old as your 470's can really be super competitive power usage wise to make them very profitable.
- latchkey 3y agoCorrect, not profitable.
- Arelius 3y agoBut just because you have old GPUs, doesn't imply there is a problem with ROCm. You'd have the same problem of economics with old Nvidia GPUs.
- latchkey 3y agoROCm doesn't support old GPUs. That said, people are finding hacks... https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/15t0lsm/i_turned_a_95_amd_apu_into_a_16gb_vram_gpu_and_it/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/15t0lsm/i_turned_a_95_...
- jrflowers 3y agoYou could sell them or give them away to hobbyists, but that could eat into the lucrative “shoehorning old crypto mining into unrelated conversations” business
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI was talking about hobbyists. Who said anything about businesses? CUDA also works on consumer NVidia cards, not just business ones.
- jrflowers 3y agoI did not know that you meant “hobby profitable” (more brain cells, bigger Ideas) not “business profitable” (money) when you asked people how to use your old mining hardware profitably.