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    QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    There's more to the modern GPU than just Fortnite.
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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    I tried using my GPU for video transcoding with Handbrake. The speed was nice but eh file sizes were much larger, so I stopped.

    I've also used my GPU intermittently for Folding@home for a couple of years now.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Not the present 1070ti but, if I were daft enough to invest in a 3090, I'm sure it would keep our office nicely warm through the winter, with the central heating radiator turned off.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Used to do folding@home years ago, as well as graphics work.

    Now? Nope, games and for reading stuff online.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    DxO uses the GPU for RAW conversion.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Rendering in Blender
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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Space heater in winter? FE and rendering, some of my software does use CUDA and GPU compute stuff that I'd be lying if I said I understood in any detail, but certain cards do help certain packages. Open GL is more important than CUDA IIRC.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    Space heater in winter?
    Damn it, you beat me to it

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    I could be pedantic and say everything I do on a PC is at least displayed by the GPU, but no, apart from being able to watch high res video and play games, it serves not much other purpose for me

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Use Lightroom a lot. Don't know if it helps or not

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    MPC-BE hardware acceleration, and if I'm feeling really crazy I even enable it in Firefox.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Quote Originally Posted by Fogoldgaming View Post
    Use Lightroom a lot. Don't know if it helps or not
    adobe say it can do. But my laptop runs it with just iris graphics so not sure how much it actually matters.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Yes!, a heater! it heats my front room up great! couple of hours Prime + FurMark, nice an toasty!

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    Back in 2010, I wrote a proggie in college that used CUDA to accelerate the workflow. But that was for a class, and CUDA wasn't one of the technologies I kept using after college.

    Nowadays, the only thing would be video acceleration, which happens in the background, and considering that my Matrox Millenia is fast enough to play DVDs, I don't need a modern dGPU for that.

    I did run some GPU-based WCG and f@h for awhile. I still run WCG, but it hasn't had a GPU-accelerated project in years. For f@h, I used to have issues on my late-2000's nVIDIA GPU where it would use so much GPU that moving the mouse was laggy, so I stopped. With my more recent AMD GPUs, f@h always recorded the minimal credit even if I finished early, so I lost confidence that the results were completing properly, and went back to just running WCG on my CPU.

    I have my web browsers set to not use GPU acceleration, as I find I have fewer visual artifacts with that disabled.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    I use mine for anything but gaming. Mostly photo editing.

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    Re: QOTW: Do you use your GPU for anything other than gaming?

    I've used it for some Photoshop and Sony Vegas acceleration in the past but I've no idea how much it helped me. Aside from that, sod all.

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