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Transporting a GPU?

Ksanti

Ksanti

Ksanti

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Is there any viable way to transport a GPU? I'm off to uni come October and I'm thinking of building another desktop to take with me so I have a decently powerful computer up there (rather than making do with a laptop or lugging my entire rig up and down each term. I'll likely go with something like a 7950 or higher end if there's a particularly good deal, I just can't really decide if I'd put the 5870 from my current desktop in there and give the big rig at home a little graphics boost, or if I'd leave the 5870 in the desktop and put a 680 or something in the newer one.

Thing is, if I can, I'd probably like to just use one i.e. take the new gpu up to uni with me and then take it back with me on holidays, but I don't know if the cars are really designed or able to be transported and basically run in two separate systems? Will it muck up drivers etc. to be all but hotswapping the card from one system to another?
 
I did it for a while I used the original box. one option might be to bubble wrap it up and attach some cardboard above and below perhaps a bit ghetto but will do the job (and be lower profile!)Drivers wise should be fine could always reinstall on each transfer (what I did)
 
Yeah box I'm not too worried about the physical transporting, it's really more the drivers that I'm not sure about because I don't want to be spending an entire day every time I get back from or go to uni getting the damn things working again.
 
Ksanti said:
Yeah box I'm not too worried about the physical transporting, it's really more the drivers that I'm not sure about because I don't want to be spending an entire day every time I get back from or go to uni getting the damn things working again.
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Lol, how do your computer's know that you removed and then put back in the graphics card while it was off ;)
 
I wasn't sure if there was any driver stuff that the GPU would pick up e.g. information on the motherboard/cpu/other specs which may affect how it works, so more the GPU not being able to work in two systems rather than the system not being able to use a GPU from another PC. Sorry if it was a stupid question.

So the drivers are OS side rather than anything being stored on the card itself?
 
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