Making a GeForce into a Quadro.

[Basse]

Anandtech review: Nvidia Quadro DDR.

"NVIDIA's Quadro GPU ( NV10GL) is set apart from the consumer grade GeForce (aside from it?s price tag) by enabling certain features on the Quadro that were left disabled on the GeForce since the latter was not intended to be a high end solution. Among these features is enhanced support for anti-aliased points and lines, which although isn?t a commonly used feature with most users, was an extremely poor performance point for the GeForce. While these settings might conceptually be ?enabled? on the GeForce through driver tweaks/registry hacks, it is unclear exactly what methods NVIDIA went to in order to make sure that they were disabled on the GeForce, to this date no one has discovered the magic hack."

I know its a rather old article, but did anyone ever discover "The Magic Hack"?

What would be the benefits, I mean, would games run better on a Quadro than on a GeForce?

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[Svet]

It is apparently very easy to mod your GeForce 2 into a Quadro 2. There are several sites that show how to do it. Just do a search on Google and whip out you soldering iron. Maybe if I get bored I'll try it sometime.

 

[LordSandMan]

It looks like this is some pretty good info on the mod.
Somebodies Geocities site

Has anyone tried this??? Is there a big performance difference in UT or Q3?? I'll probably give it a try, but if there isn't a big performance increase I don't think I want to risk it.

 

[LordSandMan]

ok, I just did search on Anandtech. Looks like it's already been discussed here.

 

[BadMuleS]

hmmm need to get me a little quadro goodiness

 

[miniMUNCH]

Removing, shorting, the RFI filters (inductors) is a more valuable hack. There quite a bit of discussion on that mod too on threads in the Video Forum.

Makes want to borrow my friends dormant GF2 ultra and try this out, if the image quality shaped up I'll buy a GF2 utlra for $335 and do both mods.

 

[Basse]

Thanks for the input guys. Forgot about the search thing, I'll try it 1st next time.

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[SaturnX]

Mind you, by making your GF2 into a Quadro, you won't get any more FPS or performance in gaming, the Quadro is designed for professional use, meaning you will only get better performance using 3D rendering software, such as 3D Studio MAX, AutoCAD, Maya, LightWave etc.... There's no need in modding it into a Quadro unless you do Pro 3D graphics. But however, what's this other mod I hear of? Increaing vid quality?

--Mark

 

[LordSandMan]

The other mod has to do with fixing the 2d graphics so they aren't so blurry. I haven't paid much attention to it, but I think it has something to do with disabling/removing some ?capacitors? on the board. Do a search on the Video Forum.