Turn the RTX 750 Ti into a work of art after its end of service? Not a bad idea at all!
A few things are as certain as that You Died
in Dark Souls: Discord downloads dozens of updates when it starts, the next Anno title year has a sum of nine and old hardware has to be replaced at some point.
But what do you do with the old components? Depending on the model and situation, there are a few classic answers that we also recommend in our guide: Give as a gift to relatives or friends, resell on third-party platforms, reuse as a media or retro PC, donate the hardware…
Reddit user Tvilantini found a rather unusual but even nicer option and shared it with the community. He turned his old Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti into a piece of wall art:
Link to Reddit content
What can be seen on the wall art?
On the base we can see the individual parts of the graphics card, starting at the top and clockwise:
- Board with GPU, memory chips, PCIe connectors, display connectors such as HDMI and DVI.
- The two 80mm fans
- Heat pipe as a heat sink
- I/O bracket with cutouts for display connections
In addition, the user lists a number of key dataincluding the release date of the card (February 18, 2014), the built-in GPU chip (GM107-400-A2) or the power consumption of the GPU (TDP = thermal design parameters, still a cute 60 watts at the time).
According to Tvilantini, the entire base on which the individual graphics card components rest was created in Adobe InDesign. He also shares a template in the comments that you can use to transform your graphics card into a similar work of art.
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On the document you will find some English-language reviews of the map from well-known voices:
- Hilbert Hagedoorn, editor-in-chief of 3DGuru, attested to the card’s excellent performance-to-watt ratio.
- Peter Paul from The PC Enthusiast even mentioned the cooling performance of the Windforce 2X coolers
exaggerated
– which also left a lot of room for overclocking.
What makes the graphics card special: The RTX 750 Ti, the first graphics card based on Nvidia’s new Maxwell architecture, was released in 2013. In terms of pure performance, it wasn’t such a big leap compared to its predecessor. On the other hand, the card was able to impress in terms of efficiency over its entire length, as our test over a decade ago confirmed.
The project is expected to be well received by the community. Many share their memories of the card, which for some people was their introduction to their own PC hardware.
Tvilantini was still using the card until a few months ago. He won’t have it himself until April 19, 2023 decommissioned
and replaced by an RTX 4070 Ti. For the last two years she was mostly only used for Geforce Now.
Why we find wall art exciting: Of course, anyone who regularly replaces the thermal paste on their graphics card or carries out minor repairs themselves with the soldering kit has seen it all before.
However, players who are not into DIY are often not aware that a graphics card consists of several components and not just one monolithic block. Tvilantini’s wall art manages to show this in a beautiful and educational way.
The fact that the graphics card, which may also have an emotional value, finds a second home is the cherry on the cake.
