I have some spare hardware from work and I was googling to see how much its worth and...
Why the fuck does this card cost 120 pounds? Its 512MB, it is basically shit.
Its been sitting in my draw for a year
WE HAVE A BOX OF THESE LABELED "MULTI MONITOR GPUS" theres like 20 of them are you telling me I can become rich?
Lol, DMS59, its an odd connection, but super useful if you have a low profile tower, and need a multiple monitor setup. But yea I put those in systems for basically nothing.
I need to get promoted to stock manager and then buying normal priced hardware and pocketing the difference
Evil!
Anyway those cards are usually used to provide just extra ports or to hook up a monitor.
Get rich while you still can :D
I know why they are used and why we have them but...
costs 40 dollars. 512 mb more, supports more displays... not to mention DDR5 vs DDR3...
Yeah I know. I find it weird too. But if you can sell them for 120 quids each, well then, time to buy a Lamborghini.
The thing is, while businesses buy them new by the box, I dont think anyone will buy them used.
No one is that stupid
Right...
PLEASE TELL ME NO ONE IS THAT STUPID...
Those people exists. But all jokes aside and to be honest here, I don't know how high is the request for those cards. You may get lucky to sell one or two of those cards.
I guess ill leave them in case we ever need them (I dont think we will XD)
I will never understand "enterprise grade hardware" especially Quadros. The "business" tax is sometimes like 1000 percent...
WHY DOES NO ONE DO ANYTHING ABOUT THIS
If you have so many of them you can try listing them on eBay or something. It can't hurt.
Ive already taken so much hardware outta the office I feel bad...
I mean, my boss offers me to take shit and hes happy with it but I still feel bad XD
If you weren't in UK, or if I was in UK I'd grab all the spare hardware you have.
If you pay for shipping I can pm you the contents of my spare shit drawer... I need to get rid of it before I move anyway
Depends on what you have. I didn't mean to click send damn it. PM it just for shit and giggles.
I don't understand everything myself, but workstation cards cost more than regular desktop cards just always.
With the Quadro's, from what I understand their specs are not exactly compatible to desktop cards in the way you would think, as they are designed for different advantages. Don't take my word for it, but I believe one of the things workstation cards are known for is stability / longevity under pressure. They are also the primary things used in, say, specialized scientific applications/settings. Also, nVidia gives much better support for them, especially for Linux, where in the past they might drop caring to make linux drivers / updates / features for a set of cards, the Quadro's still always got whatever it was dropped elsewhere (again, because they are used in specialized applications that mostly run linux).
The enterprise tax is generally justifiable.
If you are in an enterprise environment, then if the equipment lasts longer and does not break as often, then downtime stays low and you are not paying for more IT people.
This is a largely wrong, but business people do not know that. Soooooooo what are you gonna do.
The other thing to consider is that a lot of the tax comes from the fact that nvidia or who ever actually has special support teams for those products.
I was working at a place that was paying like 1200 bucks a piece for a shitty little desktop tower and monitor. The price never made any sense to me until I had to sit down and RMA like 30 of the damn things.
I basically spat our a bunch of serial numbers at them, and the new computers arrived the next day.
So that enterprise tax can turn out to be a really nice investment.
Only sometimes though, and I doubt this is one of those times.
This isnt a quadro, but I do kinda get the point of quadros... kinda. Its just you pay a very large premium for a very small gain.
when have you last worked in an it office? shit breaks all the time.
you see this makes sense to me for things like our laptops, which indeed if they break someone comes in and fixes them the next day, but does not make any sense to me for parts which 1. no one is ever going to bother fixing if they break 2. if they break, there is a very very small chance anyone will actually spend the time to figure out "oh its the gpu" and more likely theyll just buy a whole new tower.
enterprise grade has everything to do with blameability, can the C-level people blame someone for something? if yes then they will buy it as it wasn't their fault and since it const lots it must be good right?
The basic idea is that economically, that property means nothing to his business if he's not using it. He's sunk money into it in the past and probably got more than sufficient value out of it. They're basically kept around because people equate not being trash with being valuable.
TL;DR: DON'T FEEL BAD. IT'S FINE. TAKE ANYTHING HE WILL ALLOW.
Shit, I could sell my GT 520 for that much.....