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[Gpuhackr] chose his username to explain exactly how he spends his time. For instance, here he's using an STM32 Discovery board to drive an AMD Radeon HD 2400 graphics card. The ARM microcontroller isn't actually using the PCIe interface on the card. Instead, [Gpuhackr] has patched into the debugging interface built into the card itself. This isn't quite as straight forward as it sounds, but if … [Read more...]
Upgrading a desktop with a diamond cutting wheel [Michail] needed a new graphics card. The only problem was his motherboard didn't have any free PCI-E x16 slots available. Unable to find a PCI-E x1 card, he did what any of us would do and broke out the Dremel. Yes, he got it working, but don't do this unless you know what you're doing. It's recycling! [Steve] recently got a Galaxy S3 and was … [Read more...]
Even though NVidia and ATI have been open-source friendly for a while now, there still isn't a true open-source graphics card. [Anton] and [Per] are trying to fix that by building his own graphics card around an FPGA. The project is called ORSoC, and it's available on opencores.com. The guys are building the ORSoC graphics card around a Digilent Atlys FPGA dev board. So far, he can draw lines, … [Read more...]
[Taylor] popped a new graphics card into his computer, but before he could settle in for a round of gaming, his card started to overheat. He eventually tracked the problem down to an undersized power supply, but the prospect of cooking his new GPU to death made him think twice about how he was monitoring his system’s health. To continually keep tabs on his video card’s temperature going … [Read more...]
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