NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod

babyshiori writes "The NVIDIA Quadro family of professional graphics cards are very, very expensive. But many people know that Quadro and GeForce graphics cards are virtually identical in hardware. Obviously, you cannot just use Quadro drivers with your GeForce graphics cards. However, there is an easy way to soft-mod an NVIDIA GeForce desktop graphics card into an NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics card. Tech ARP shows us just how to do it. '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.'"

Comments

Re:Cool, but will pros use it?

[Reasonable Radical]

I doubt anyone outside a few hardcore individual users will use it. The idea of ANY business letting its employees physically modify their hardware is kinda ludicrous, and very few others will both hear about it and have a reason to do it. Hate to do this to my own post, but since I didn't RTFA, I only deserve it... Disregard that, I suck cocks. *blush*

Re:Just Pencil-in the Broken Trace

[Anonymous Coward]

as opposed to the .. back page?