I have an Asus RTX 2070 Dual OC in original packaging sitting here as well. Was a warranty exchange, so has about 2 hours on the meter ?
How do you have stuff like that just laying around?? ![Shocked :o](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/xshocked.gif.pagespeed.ic.CrwtrNUjLO.png)
Cuz I tend to test what I build. Also I can write any test gear off my taxes.
I submit some ideas for improvement from time to time, and my employer gives me an appropriate bonus if those ideas materialize. I tend to test those ideas at home, build up my knowledge, and people have a hard time smart assing me on my job.
For this I use some adequate test gear which I can get at a reasonable price, which I resell after my tests are complete and if I don't use it anymore.
Which also means that I have several RTX cards sitting here; they would make a good mining rig if not for the electricity bill.
Since my next project will involve machine learning and speech to text plus OCR I will need some of those cards, but not all of them. I'll probably try to do one training in CUDA and one in OpenCL, pythonize it, try to move it to a Pynq and get it to work on one of those autonomous Zynq Ultrascale boards. If that works out I will not need all those RTX cards any more.
Some of them are populating those PCs that I have sitting here idling around.
The original Asus blew in one of my tests, probably because of a fan failure. Asus swapped it out within 3 days, but by that time I had another replacement.