FireGL mod for Radeon HD 2900XT

[koc]

Workstation graphics on the cheap

A Chinese website has posted a modded version of AMD's drivers that will turn an ATI Radeon HD 2900XT into a FireGL V8600.

This might not be all that useful to most owners of a Radeon 2900XT, but if you're into OpenGL 3D rendering and need a fast card for the previews, then a Radeon HD 2900XT will be a lot cheaper than a FireGL V8600 card.

Considering that the FireGL V8600 will set you back US$1899, while you can pick up a 1GB Radeon HD 2900XT for as little as US$499.99, you can save quite a bit of money this way.

You can download the modded drivers here and it's about a 70MB download.

http://www.newdisk.cn/?wesley8

Is this possible ?

[SafeFire]

Very nice, thanks for the info! I know some people who'll find this trick very very useful.

[AliG]

I think this could be especially useful if diamond gets that 2gb card working, it's called the 2900xt pro edition (since they no longer can call it firegl) and that should be a nice deal for people that could actually use the memory

[wittekakker]

GeForce 4 titanium had about the same modification, I never tried it but in theorie it should have been working quit good if I remember that right. The Titianium series didn't offer same performance as the Quadro series, but didn't fall back that much after the modification.

[koc]

So. can some one try and tell us the result :)

[ibby]

So. can some one try and tell us the result :)

this worked on the 9700 pro firegl eqivilent
they are hacked drivers to force windows to use a diffrent hardware id.

[Kain665]

It worked on the nv40 fine. I remember i had one of those.

[gelatinousfury]

Modded driver results in this thread:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=157780&highlight=v8600

(start at post #19)