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
    161·
    1 年前

    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 年前

      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
        3·
        1 年前

        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.