Make use of old graphics card (AMD 6450)

[tomcatoggo]

Good Day,

 

after now searching for quite a while and not finding an answer, I dare to open my first thread here. Hopefully, I got it in the right topic.

 

I have set up a simple server with my old hardware, running an old Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E7400 with 4 GB of DDR2 in a very nice silent tower. And despite it being a quite low-powered system, I am actually very happy with the performance so far. All the things that I have tried so far worked (4K streaming via Plex as main purpose). Step by step I want to use the server for more things and the concrete next one I am looking at is setting up a very basic surveillance station using AgentDVR with an IP camera.

 

Here I get to the question:

I still have an old PCIe card (AMD 6450) lying around that I used back then in that system when it was a simple media PC. While this card surely can't do transcoding of videos, but could it still be useful for let's say decoding (or generally handling) videos from an IP camera?

And if not, could there still be any use for such an (outdated) graphics card in a server?

Btw: the integrated GPU of the mainboard is a Nvidia GeForce GT 120.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

As I am hoping for some additional (any) answers, I also posted this question into the German subforum:

I hope this is ok.

Edited July 7 by tomcatoggo