Got one GT 610 (520 rebrand) and all I get is black screen trying to install the latest G drivers on W10. WU drivers work fine though. What gives?
Reading this
thread, not much love Fermi has gotten so far.
Might as well put on ebay, this outdated junk. Kepler still works fine for HTPC purposes, though. Luckily
I had a spare 620, brand new that I bought for a good price many years ago. The intention was to use it for dual-monitors (dual DVI) and as a backup during those times when I resell my GPUs. Then I realized any new monitor I buy will have either HDMI or DisplayPort or both anyway so I don't need Dual Dual Link DVI. I also realized I want a back up card for a while so I didn't want to deal with Windows 10 driver issues over the next 5 years. Then I thought hmmm, the market for low end Dual Dual Link DVI cards is low and someone using Windows 7/8/8.1 would appreciate this card. At the same time it would be easy to sell since 610/620 sounds way newer than GT420/430/440/530, etc. even though they are the same outdated tech:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5845/nvidia-launches-fermi-based-geforce-gt-610-gt-620-gt-630-into-retail
I sold the 620 for $25 and got a 750 as a backup for $50. Solved all the headaches. Then I realized, it's even better to sell the 750 and buy AMD cards to mine currency so no point in even having $50 tied up in a backup card that sits new in a box waiting for a rainy day. By the time it may be used, the 950 could be $50-60.
Long rant moral of the story is that sooner or later that GT610 will be useless anyway -- driver support will go away completely, it has no modern codecs for accelerating 4K, VP9, H.265, etc.; it has no HDMI 2.0a, cannot drive HDR displays, etc.
That means if you want a spare card to use for 5-10 years under Windows 10, it's probably not a good fit. Sell it now for $15-20 and just use that towards a deal on a GTX750/950, etc.
I took an even more proactive route. I sold my budget 750 spare too and bought a spare team red card that now makes $ mining. This way I am going to get a far more powerful spare or sell it once it's paid off and get a modern GPU later that will have 5-8 years of driver support.
In 2016, Fermi will become 3 architectures behind for NV, and by 2018, 4 behind. That means if you can pull $15-20 out of it now, soon that will be $0.
750Ti EVGA B-stock is already just $80. Once Pascal launches, I predict B-stock 950 for $80 and 750-750Ti will drop to $40-50.
http://www.evga.com/Products/ProductList.aspx?type=8