NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Soft-Mod

[Shocker003]

For those that need the expensive quadro but can´t afford it, today is your lucky day!!

The NVIDIA Quadro family of professional graphics cards are very, very expensive. They are generally 2-5X more expensive than their gaming counterparts, the NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards. But everyone knows that Quadro and GeForce graphics cards are virtually identical in hardware.

Yes, you read that right. Even with the unbelievable price tag, the NVIDIA Quadro is really no different from their desktop GeForce counterparts. So why is NVIDIA charging you so much for a Quadro?

It all revolves around the driver support for professional 3D applications like 3ds Max or Maya. Quadro drivers allow the Quadro to be used to accelerate the rendering operations of such professional 3D applications while GeForce drivers do not. This is the basis for the premium prices NVIDIA (and ATI) charge for their professional-grade graphics cards.

Obviously, you cannot just use Quadro drivers with your GeForce graphics cards. After all, it represents the thin red line between a really, really fat profit margin and just a "normal" profit margin. NVIDIA Quadro drivers are designed to detect the presence of an NVIDIA Quadro graphics card. It will not install if a GeForce card is detected instead.

However, there is an easy way to soft-mod (modify in software) a NVIDIA GeForce desktop graphics card into a NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics card. We will show you just how to do it in this guide.

I didn´t try it out so i can´t say for sure if it really works..

Link to mod:-
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.a...tno=539&pgno=0

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Wow their still writing guides for this stuff which is born in the gf6800 era??

[Neuuubeh]

Didnt know they came up with a mod for 8800gts . Wouldve bought one of those . Last i checked the tweak was ok for 7900gt .
I had a series 5 geforce modded to quadro 3000, was sweet
Hopefully I get to mod my 9800gtx to some quadro

It all revolves around the driver support for professional 3D applications like 3ds Max

Actually a Quadro brings close to no advantages in 3ds max, unless you use the Maxtreme drivers which nvidia developed for it. Reason being, Quadros have optimization
for Opengl overlays, thats the main point of them. However MAX is currently Direct 3d .

[zanzabar]

this isnt a good idea the gou may bee the same but the frame buffer and bios interface arnt the same on the quatro, it may work for the lower end but the higher end cards will fail quality tests

and they changed the soft ID not the drivers, there wont be improvements with that

[Genius_pt]

Very, very interesting

[STEvil]

been known and done for years.

Quadro drivers dedicated 16mb of framebuffer to specific things iirc as well.