Go to ebay

You wouldn't be able to fit a full size video card on one of those things, I doubt it even has the port for it.

>E3-1240
Wow it's shit, good job bottlenecking your GPU.

It has 2 pcie3 x16 slots and takes full size cards apparently

i should've posted the video first, this guy did it with an RTX2060
youtu.be/oj_FeJf0a5k

Yeah it's stronger than an xbonex that's not hard to do. But it's still bottlenecking that GPU and you'd both get better performance by upgrading to a better CPU. No point in pairing it with a card like the 1660 or 2060.

I did this a couple of years ago by buying a Dell T3500 from a goodwill for just $70 and slipping a used R9 Fury into it. It came with a six core Xeon which was pretty cool, but I did need to get a better power supply. Full height and length graphics cards do fit, but you'll have to remove most of the plastic spacers and some of the drive cages they put in those.

Upgrade to a 2650 and it'll be decent.
Unfortunately there's no way to push more single thread performance out of it.

not sure if an old xeon is a good idea, they suck power like crazy. I guess if it comes with enough RAM (at least 16GB) it may be worth it.
A 1660ti is a retarded buy tho, get a 1070 or a vega56.

Some studio warehouse ran out of business but for some reason they installed 1060s in all their computers and I managed to get one for pretty cheap. I was able to Frankenstein it with my older rig and it's a pretty good gaming rig

i meant the regular 1660, its 220 and perform better than the stock 1070
1070TI is a better buy for 1440p

Why not go all out and buy a mined 1070

>they installed 1060s in all their computers
maybe that's why they went out of business

For a real plan now
>buy crap but with somewhat up to date specs cheap PC on ebay
>make a twitch account and shill it for a few days
>make a "DESTROYING MY PC LIVE BECAUSE OF CYBER BULLYING AND HATE SPEECH ON SOCIAL MEDIA"
>receive thousands of dollars in donations
>buy a good PC with it

Most dell's and lenovos under 200 (ebay tiger direct Newegg all have some for 150) don't have power supplies that can handle the 1660 so you need to buy a psu for at least like 35$

i'd rather get a 1070Ti pre owned, not a mined card, those ones can die on you at any given moment

>die on you at any given moment
This applies to all electronics
I'm using a mined card myself, maybe I'm lucky.

Based shopgoodwill.com poster

Damn this is really convincing me to go this route and just put the money saved over toward a nice 1440p monitor

Oh no, this was a physical goodwill in my town. Turned out some small business was upgrading around here, and they dumped like 20 of those T3500s on that goodwill over a couple of months.

maybe you're lucky if you got the card from a guy who bought it only to mine for a very few months before crypto mining went to shit but most of the market is filled with card that were under heavy mining load, its better to just get a regular pre owned one that somebody was using for gaming instead

Mine was mined to shit for 6 months.
I can't find any real proof of mining making cards die earlier, except the fans. Maybe the VRMs if the card is shitty.
In my country there's been a surge of people having issues with cards, however IMO it's far more likely to come from the huge surge of people buying used cards.

Wtf lol? 1240 v2 isn't shit. Thing is pretty much a 4790S.

Fans are cheap to replace. A nice quiet fan would be an upgrade over what cards come with honestly.

Going to put this meme to rest. Cards used for mining, especially those used in larger operations, were typically undervolted significantly, and ran at lower core clocks in order to maximize efficiency. And in moderate to larger scale operations, these cards were typically also run on open air racks.
The only thing to worry about with used mining cards are the fans and like said, it's usually better to just go ahead and replace them anyway.

Warning, those Precisions don't have enough clearance to fit a consumer graphics card in them, you have to take off the side panel or cut a hole in it.

My roommate 3d printed an extension so he could make a part of the case that bulges out and then put a plastic sheet in it so it actually has space to hold a card while still having the side panel on.

I don't have any pics but be prepared for a graphics card to not actually fit inside.

Seems like a generic replacement case would be a good investment.

I rock a dual-socket server with 96 GB RAM and more hard drive bays than the number of hard drives I have. Slapped a 980ti in there and it runs literally everything maxed out at 96fps or more, graphics settings don't exist to me now. Also looks better than any gayming shit with LEDs that actually mean something instead of a gay glowing disco ball.
tl;dr go for it