Hey, this might sound kinda dumb, but let's skip that for now. If I have a graphics card that's connected to the motherboard and it has power, but my monitor is using the built in vga connection on the motherboard, can I still use that video card for something else? Or do I have to be using it for video output?
I'm installing Cuda and at the moment I'm not using the card. Would I still be able to leverage the power of the card?
Pretty sure, yeah. For example passthrough often uses a secondary GPU for supplying graphics acceleration to the VM. There are solutions such as PRIME that appear to supply this functionality for compute
@KAutumnrain also, that was mostly done on my laptops. This is on a desktop.