$8000 Nvidia Quadro

[Bozo Galora]

http://theinquirer.net/?article=29469

Is that a decimal point misprint?
Should it be $800?

 

[Cookie Monster]

Actually quadro cards are quite expensive. The Quadro 4500 costs around $2500?

 

[Elfear]

:Q

 

[potato28]

I actually drooled on my nice black jeans when I saw this thread :Q

 

[Sonikku]

Well, if you can't match the quality of the competition you gotta' at least out-match the quanity. But damn, it sure is expensive.

 

[Powermoloch]

enough to buy you a wife...lol jk. But damn, that's expensive :Q

 

[n7]

:shocked:

 

[Zebo]

Is'nt there a website that tells you how to make Quadros? Where'e Duvie he knows made a $1600 card out of a $250 card.

 

[Lord Banshee]

Zebo,
The 7800 series are not able to turn a geforce to a quadro.. no way! actually it seems all 110nm and better nvidia gpus have the protection.. The only cards that were the best 100% convertable are the 6800NU,6800GT,6800Ultra AGP models only!.. some PCI express ones worked and the first series of 6600GT but not anymore.

Quadros are very expensive and it is a shame Nvidia have finally made a really good protection against the gamer->Pro cards... well not for Nvidia. But then again this has come before:
GeForce1,2,3,4 were modable, FX was so so and not always, 6series at first was 100% and it was found by some trying a Dell Engineering Bios on there 6800 and it was a breakthru and this website you are talking about is www.guru3d.com and the program used is rivatuner, and the author then figure out what the bios was doing(so i think) and redid his NVStrap to make it even easier..
The author of rivatuner has said the 7 series is impossible to convert and i tend to believe him as he is one of the few that will figure out a way to do the conversion.

 

[Zebo]

Great info LB. I knew it was possible but never pursued itf because of lack of usefulness for me.

 

[Lord Banshee]

not a problem as i loved my 6800Nu as a quadro as i use my computer for work and personal fun.. But the 6800NU just got too slow in games and i wanted dual core and there wasn't a AGP board i favored.. tried the AsRock but it was too buggy for me.

but yeah no problem.

 

[Wreckage]

Quad SLI baby, oh yeah!

 

[beggerking]

Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
Zebo,
The 7800 series are not able to turn a geforce to a quadro.. no way! actually it seems all 110nm and better nvidia gpus have the protection.. The only cards that were the best 100% convertable are the 6800NU,6800GT,6800Ultra AGP models only!.. some PCI express ones worked and the first series of 6600GT but not anymore.

Quadros are very expensive and it is a shame Nvidia have finally made a really good protection against the gamer->Pro cards... well not for Nvidia. But then again this has come before:
GeForce1,2,3,4 were modable, FX was so so and not always, 6series at first was 100% and it was found by some trying a Dell Engineering Bios on there 6800 and it was a breakthru and this website you are talking about is www.guru3d.com and the program used is rivatuner, and the author then figure out what the bios was doing(so i think) and redid his NVStrap to make it even easier..
The author of rivatuner has said the 7 series is impossible to convert and i tend to believe him as he is one of the few that will figure out a way to do the conversion.

so what is so good about Quadro? any additional functions?

 

[tuteja1986]

screw that $8000

 

[Sc4freak]

Originally posted by: beggerking

Originally posted by: Lord Banshee
Zebo,
The 7800 series are not able to turn a geforce to a quadro.. no way! actually it seems all 110nm and better nvidia gpus have the protection.. The only cards that were the best 100% convertable are the 6800NU,6800GT,6800Ultra AGP models only!.. some PCI express ones worked and the first series of 6600GT but not anymore.

Quadros are very expensive and it is a shame Nvidia have finally made a really good protection against the gamer->Pro cards... well not for Nvidia. But then again this has come before:
GeForce1,2,3,4 were modable, FX was so so and not always, 6series at first was 100% and it was found by some trying a Dell Engineering Bios on there 6800 and it was a breakthru and this website you are talking about is www.guru3d.com and the program used is rivatuner, and the author then figure out what the bios was doing(so i think) and redid his NVStrap to make it even easier..
The author of rivatuner has said the 7 series is impossible to convert and i tend to believe him as he is one of the few that will figure out a way to do the conversion.

so what is so good about Quadro? any additional functions?

*shrug*. It's marked as "workstation" so they get to charge 10x the price for it.

 

[Geomagick]

Workstation parts are tailored for use by graphics professionals rather than 'consumers'. The driver support is quite different, and is very much tailored to the use of CAD and design software. Also outputs on the cards are now different from the consuner level cards. Dual dual link DVI, as well as more advanced Analog outputs in the case of this card.4500SDI

 

[Cookie Monster]

Im sure Nvidia dominates the workstation markets... But man, the cards are expensive.

 

[Janooo]

All this fits with our previous story when we announced that G71 was taped out in first weeks of January and many people know that there are three months from an original tape out to production.

Does it mean that G71 comes out in April?

 

[Lord Banshee]

HAHA you know so much... but not even close.

The biggest thing about Quadros are that Nvidia disables features on the gamer card like hardware accelerated wireframes and many other things that are used in Profressional applications for designing 3d models and visual simulations (OpenGL related).

In a benchmark as in specviewpref a quadro vs a geforce using the same GPU is a difference of up to 400%.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: George Powell
Workstation parts are tailored for use by graphics professionals rather than 'consumers'. The driver support is quite different, and is very much tailored to the use of CAD and design software. Also outputs on the cards are now different from the consuner level cards. Dual dual link DVI, as well as more advanced Analog outputs in the case of this card.4500SDI

wow thats cool....whats that bad boy thats piggy backing there?