Rent Out Your Gaming PC's GPU When You're Not Playing

A gaming GPU is one of the most capable pieces of compute most people own, and it spends most of the day doing nothing. While you're at work, at school or asleep, the same card that runs your games could be running someone's AI training job.

The reason most gamers don't rent theirs out is simple: they don't want to find it busy when they sit down to play. A spot node on ParalonCloud is built around exactly that. You rent the GPU out while you're away and take it back whenever you want, with one button.

What you need

• An NVIDIA GPU with up-to-date drivers. The card has to be supported by current NVIDIA drivers; most RTX cards from the 30 series on are a good fit. See Hardware Requirements.
• Windows 10 or 11 with Docker Desktop on WSL2. That's how the ParalonCloud agent runs on Windows: in a container, not as a program on your desktop. It can't see your files or your games.
• A stable connection of at least 50 Mbps. No port forwarding and no public IP: the agent connects out through a secure tunnel, which needs outbound port 7844 open (it usually is).

The Prerequisites page walks through installing Docker Desktop with GPU support.

Connect your PC as a spot node

1. Sign in and open the Dashboard, then Add node.
2. Give it a name, choose GPU and Windows (WSL).
3. Open Advanced options and tick Spot. Leave Available ticked if you're happy for it to start working as soon as it's verified.
4. Copy the install command and run it in PowerShell or a terminal on the PC.

The node shows up in your dashboard within a minute. ParalonCloud then verifies the GPU (a short hardware check and benchmark) and prepares it for rentals. Full details: Add a Node.

Your daily routine

On the node's card there's a Pause / Resume button.

• Leaving the house, going to bed: Resume it. The network can rent it out or run inference on it.
• Sitting down to play: set it Paused. If someone is renting it, they get two minutes' notice and the rental stops. If it's running inference, it finishes the requests in hand (within two minutes) and stops. Then the GPU is yours.

You can also leave it Paused by default and only switch it on when you know you won't be using the PC for a while.

Things worth knowing

• Don't game on it while it's Available. The GPU's memory and compute are being used by the rental or the inference worker; a game would fight it for both. Pause first.
• Pausing never hurts your reputation. Spot rentals aren't counted toward your node's score, so taking the machine back is never held against you.
• Renters know the deal. Your PC is listed as spot, cheaper than an on-demand machine and clearly marked as reclaimable, so nobody rents it expecting it to stay up for a week.
• Windows updates and sleep. If Windows restarts or the PC goes to sleep while it's Available, a running rental is cut off. Set Windows Update active hours, and turn off sleep while the PC is plugged in, if you plan to leave it Available for long stretches.
• What it earns depends on your card and your electricity price. Faster, higher-memory cards rent for more; check what your GPU rents for on the Pricing page and weigh it against what your PC draws.

Spot or regular?

If the PC is effectively a dedicated machine you rarely use, make it a regular node instead: it rents at the full price, and a long record of clean rentals builds the reputation that brings more of them. Spot is for the machine you also want for yourself.

Next

• Spot Nodes — the full reference.
• Rewards & Earnings — how earnings are credited and paid out.
• Spot Nodes: the announcement — what spot is and who it's for.