[SOLVED] Mining cards with no ports is it possable to use in a desktop as a graphics card?

[Farkle333]

OK tech question: mining cards have no ports so could there be a way to use the motherboard graphics port if it had one with a bios fix or even a new design motherboard? Another way to use one is if you had 2 pcie slots one had the mining card and another special card of coarse re-design with just the video out on it in the other pcie slot? After all CPUs come with graphics on them and laptops have built in cards seems like there could be a way to get it to work ?

 

[LolaGT]

If you search up the Linus guy over on YT they took a 1060 mining card and got it to do as you are asking. It performed reasonably well also.

 

[DSzymborski]

You'd have to source the custom firmware that Linus obtained from the seller in China and will need a CPU that has integrated graphics. You'll also have to disable some security. It's more something that's fun to do as an experiment that something good for practical use.

 

[TerryLaze]

As long as the bios isn't a problem and you have an iGPU it's just a simple windows setting.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-adds-graphics-settings-for-power-users-to-windows-10