So I have a few of these "mining GPUs" that are no longer effective for mining. Now they're collecting dust at my bookshelf. ASUS' official stance seems to be that the video card has no video output, yet ASUS have decided to hide display port + HDMI outputs behind the PCI bracket. According to an extensive multimeter & PCB analysis, those video ports seem to be functional and emitting electricity. Yet the GPU is "headless", meaning display output has been killed in BIOS.

ASUS is the only manufacturer with those I/O ports on the PCB and I don't think anyone can deny the amount of waste they're creating by simply disabling the display engines in BIOS.

Is there any chance / plans to have a BIOS version with the display engines turned back on? This seems to be a simple software problem yet due to the nature of encrypted BIOS in Pascal series it seems to be an impossible task for an average user.

Regards,
Otto