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Repurposing former mining rigs for remote gaming — practical limitations?

Hi everyone,

I’m interested in the practical hardware changes involved, especially with RTX 30-series or newer cards:

  • Did you need to replace the mining motherboard or move away from PCIe x1 risers?
  • How much did the CPU, RAM and SSD need upgrading?
  • Did you build separate PCs from the GPUs, or find a practical way to use several cards in one system?
  • What problems did you encounter with drivers, cooling or streaming latency?

I’m mainly looking for firsthand experiences: what worked, what needed replacing, and whether the conversion was worth the effort compared with selling the equipment.