NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday May 9, 2008 @09:21PM from the you-bought-it-might-as-well-use-the-whole-thing dept.

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.'"

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Re:Only it doesn't work by WilyCoder · 2008-05-10 02:02 · Score: 1, Redundant

"Softmodding only works up to the Geforce 6x00 series."

Wrong. Here are instructions for softmodding a Geforce 8800 GTS:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33898714

Also, the main thing you are paying for with a quadro card is support. You are given access to the driver development team. If you find a bug they will fix it in short time.