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.
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eBay, Craigslist, Goodwill, Facebook marketplace, or whatever your local equivalent is. Most basic graphics cards don’t need additional power.
There exist USB graphics adapters, too. But they can be janky and may not show the boot process.
The nVidia GT series are cheap, the 710 series are the cheapest new cards that I have found.
This is exactly the route I decided to go down. Should be arriving this evening :D Thank you
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…
