Is there any point to keeping a 9800GT that no longer outputs red?

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Dark4ng3l

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My 9800GT got killed by the card killing driver. It still kind of works but it ouputs no red and nothing that I tried could fix that so it's pretty much useless as a video card.

Right now I use a 5770 and I plan on upgrading to crossfire 5770s soon after I get my new system together. Is it worth buying a 3 PCIE slot MB to have the card in my system as a compute board or something? I know you can hack the drivers for physx but thats not really interesting to me. Can the board still do CUDA and be useful at all or should I just try and sell it to someone looking for a physx card/ folding farm card.
 
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Dark4ng3l

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It came in a dell system that my dad bought me almost 2 years ago. The whole system has 1 year warranty so thats that. If it was a retail card it would be a different story I guess. I was going to build myself s system but I was away from home in college and he surprised me with that thing and I wasn't going to complain.
 
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Fox5

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You could use two 9800gts in sli and maybe the other card will be able to output red.
Or you could keep it as a physx card.
 
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Someone could use it as a PhysX card. Otherwise, if someone had another 9800GT and wanted to run SLI they could probably use that as the secondary card just fine.

Don't junk it, I'm sure someone would buy it.
 
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aka1nas

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GotNoRice said:
Someone could use it as a PhysX card. Otherwise, if someone had another 9800GT and wanted to run SLI they could probably use that as the secondary card just fine.

Don't junk it, I'm sure someone would buy it.
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You can't be sure that it performs calculations correctly, it might be just as defective for PhysX or SLI.

I guess you could run an artifact tester on if first to see if it's stable.
 
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Dark4ng3l

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Maybe it reached its red output quota when it was glowing red hot for a couple of days from the fan not spinning because of the drivers...
 
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nosfe

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Well, you could always sell it to somebody with color blindness, they probably won't mind :p
 
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3DVagabond

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Hyperlite said:
An nV card no longer outputs red? the irony is strong with this one :D
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Creig

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Hyperlite said:
An nV card no longer outputs red? the irony is strong with this one :D
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Wow, and I thought it was bad enough that Nvidia was locking out PhysX and Batman:AA. But now even the color red, too? Jen-Hsun must really hate ATi.
 
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jiffylube1024

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Hmm, as others speculate, I wonder if it would still work in SLI. If you can get your hands on another 9800GT as a loaner to use as the primary card in SLI, that would be an interesting experiment.
 
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Dark4ng3l

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Well no sli MB for me and I already have a 5770 so I guess I won't be trying that. I might be able to get some used pars though to use it in a spare gaming rig for my sister or something. Sounds like an interesting project hmmm gona have to take a look at FS/FT.
 
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OCGuy

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That card isnt broken. It seems you have gotten the Australian version by mistake. They don't want you to be able to see something that even resembles blood.
 
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nitromullet

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You might try contacting Dell anyway. Even though the card isn't under warranty, your card died because of a known (publicized by NVIDIA) defect in the driver. This situation is similar to the whole NV laptop chipset issue, and all the major OEMs are replacing/fixing laptops outside of the original warranty period because it is a known issue with the chip.
 
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Rich3077

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I heard dogs and cats are colorblind.. doesn't fluffy deserve a video card upgrade?
 
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