I’ve been fighting with some issues on my unraid server recently and I’m at a point where I need a graphics card to see the actual video out as the machine boots. The psu in the chassis has no additional connectors that I could use for additional power to a graphics card.

Can someone point me in the direction of a super cheap graphics card that will be used for console only and not 3d graphics or gaming.

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Get a used SFF office PC low profile card off Ebay. They often have chipset wattages around 25 or so and easily run on slot power only

    Something like this: https://www.ebay.com/p/1958445856 (idea only, not endorsing this seller).

    Anything of a semi modern format with a pcie interface thata not an outright scam card will be fine for VGA no-driver video output. IME older AMD/ATI cards seem to boot better than oder NVidia cards…

    • CitizenStile@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I’d love to have gone that route, but was looking for a quick solution which ended up being the Nvidia GT 710

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        If it works, it works. Really any old cheap pcie card will work, if you just need video out of any kind the card type need not be specific. Glad you got it to work.