NVIDIA Tesla P4 8GB GDDR5 Low-Profile GPU (Silent Active Cooling)
Looking to upgrade your home server, TrueNAS, Unraid, or Plex build without breaking the bank or waking up the house?
This is an NVIDIA Tesla P4 8GB GDDR5 workstation/AI accelerator card, professionally modified with a custom 4-wire PWM silent fan cooling shroud. Unlike the stock enterprise version, which requires a loud, high-airflow server chassis to keep cool, this card is plug-and-play for standard desktop PCs, custom NAS builds, and compact low-profile setups. The 4-wire PWM fan plugs directly into your motherboard's fan header, allowing your system to automatically control the speed and keep it completely silent under light loads!
Why the Tesla P4 is the Ultimate Home Lab GPU:
- Perfect for Plex / Jellyfin: Features NVENC (Pascal generation) hardware encoding. It easily handles multiple simultaneous 4K HDR-to-1080p transcodes without breaking a sweat, freeing up your CPU entirely.
- Low Profile & Efficient: True single-slot, half-height card that draws a maximum of only 75W. It runs entirely off the PCIe slot powerno 6-pin or 8-pin power cables required!
- AI & Deep Learning: Ideal for budget-conscious DIYers getting into local LLMs, Stable Diffusion, Ollama, Home Assistant AI, or Frigate NVR object detection.
- Budget Cloud Gaming: Want to host a custom headless cloud gaming server (via Moonlight/Sunshine)?
- The P4 supports vGPU and standard GeForce/GRID drivers for virtualization and retro/indie gaming streams.
- GTX 1660-Class Gaming Performance: Don't let the "datacenter" label fool you. When paired with standard GeForce or GRID drivers, the P4 delivers gaming performance similar to a GTX 1660 / GTX 1060 6GB. It is an incredible budget choice for hosting a headless cloud-gaming server (via Moonlight/Sunshine) to stream 1080p eSports, retro, or indie games to your phone, tablet, or TV.
Key Specifications:
- GPU Architecture: Pascal (GP104)
- Video Memory: 8GB GDDR5
- Form Factor: Low Profile (Half-Height, Single Slot)
- Power Consumption: 75W Max (Bus-Powered)
- Cooling: Custom Shroud with a Silent 4-Wire PWM Fan (Standard motherboard header connection)
- Display Outputs: Headless (No physical video portsdesigned for background processing, virtualization, transcoding, and compute).
Condition Note
💡 Seller Note: The GPU is in excellent, 100% working condition. The custom cooling shroud and PWM fan are brand new, keeping temperatures impressively low compared to passive cooling.
Important Gaming Note: This is a headless compute/datacenter card with no physical display outputs. To use it for standard Windows desktop gaming or cloud streaming, you must configure it as a render-only device. In Windows, this is easily done by routing the display rendering through your CPU's integrated graphics or a secondary low-power graphics card via Windows Graphics Settings.
