In times of boom kriptovalyutnogo acute shortage of NVIDIA graphics cards has prompted the company to create a special graphic accelerators for mayniga, eg, NVIDIA P106-100, is a simplified analog of GeForce GTX 1060. Now, however,, when the need for such accelerators significantly decreased, Some enthusiasts have wondered, whether you can use them as a replacement for the conventional graphics card? And as practice shows, the answer to this question - positive. But what is especially nice, this opens the way to getting enough performance graphics subsystems at a very low cost.
Recently on YouTube-channel Linus Tech Tips, who leads a well-known enthusiast Linus Sebastian (Linus Sebastian), there was a detailed video on this topic. The main problem for NVIDIA P106 accelerator as a traditional graphics card is, that it does not have any video output, and more, even display up locked in the most piercing. However, Chinese craftsmen were able to modify the software, and removed the restriction.
Of course, himself from this video on the video card does not appear. But the problem can be solved, when using integrated graphics CPU as a bridge for outputting images through video output on the motherboard. Essentially the idea is, to all the work carried out by the graphics processing accelerator NVIDIA P106, and a built-in GPU would be responsible for the withdrawal of the generated image.
For, to make everything work the way, as intended, you need to follow a few steps. To begin, you must remove the existing driver for discrete GPU using the Display Driver Uninstaller. Next, you need to install the modified "Chinese" driver for NVIDIA P106. This may require you to disable secure boot system. finally, operating system settings, select the graphics card as the default graphics accelerator for games.
To test the viability of the whole scheme of the NVIDIA graphics card P106 has been tested in the game Shadow of the Tomb Raider in Full HD resolution (1920 × 1080 points) with maximum graphics settings without Motion Blur. The resulting Linus result exceeded all expectations. The average frame rate was only 4 fps below, than the video card EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 with 6 GB memory. This is in view of the lack of acceleration and use integrated graphics as an intermediary!
But the cherry on the cake is the price of NVIDIA P106 - less $70 in China. for comparison, ordinary GeForce GTX 1060 now sold at the price of $200, that is three times more expensive.
A source: http://linustechtips.com/
