Quadro 4 or GF4 Hack?

[dude]

Anyone have more info about the GF4 Ti hack to a Quadro? I'm kinda interested in this as I'd like to try to do some benchmarks on the hacked card to see if there is much of any improvements for workstation duties.

That, or point me to a site that has benchmarks on thsi?

 

[dude]

Oh yeah, I also heard there was a software hack? How well does this work, if it does at all?

 

[stebesplace]

Well, here are my 2 cents in the subject, mostly from personal experiance.

Lets step back in time to the good ole days of quadro. The only difference between a quadro and a geforce, was the two capacitors that enables certain graphic functions, as well work with the bios. The quadro 2, and hence, geforce 2, was the same way. The geforce 3, and quadro dcc were a little bit more different, but still the same principle.

All of the quadro, quadro 2, and suadro dcc have software 'hacks' that enabled the drivers to recognize them through the firmware of the board.

NOW, the newest quadro, quadro 4, takes on a whole new approach to the difference between a quadro and geforce. So, listen carefully. If you want, get a geforce 4, and do this

SoftQuadro4

Otherwise, get a quadro 4 and be happy with the real thing like I am.

Here is a good resource for this topic.

Forum on Highend3d.com

Hope this helps.

-Steve

 

[dude]

Cool, thank you very much. I guess I'll be doing alot of reading up on this.