Quadro FX540 (PCI-E 6600GT?), and FX700/FX1100 (AGP 5900/5700U?) on sale until 3-31

[Creig]

Found the following:

PNY Graphics Cards
For a limited time, Videotex Systems, Inc. is offering an exclusive promotion featuring big discounts on the NVIDIA QuadroFX graphics card products. See here for product details

3DS Max and Maya and Adobe users can enhance efficiency and productivity with NVIDIA QuadroFX workstation graphics solutions. The FX line also has CG technology with real time and programmable shaders. This is an excellent opportunity for 3DS Max and Maya users to obtain the highest levels of performance and speed.

Check out these awesome prices! Call Videotex Systems at 972-231-9200 ext 120 to order!!! Offer expires March 31 2005.



Quadro FX700 AGP x 8

Regular Price
$ 699.00

Sale Price
$ 399.00

Savings
$ 300.00


Quadro FX1100 AGP x 8

Regular Price
$ 995.00

Sale Price
$ 549.00

Savings
$ 446.00


Quadro FX540 PCI Express

Regular Price
$ 299.00

Sale Price
$ 199.00

Savings
$ 100.00

Website Link

http://www.videotexsystems.com/SoftwareAnimation.aspx#PNY

PNY Link

http://www.pny.com/products/quadro/


I believe the FX540 is a GeForce 6600GT, the FX700 is a GeForce FX5900 and the FX1100 is a GeForce FX5700U (but don't quote me on that).

 

[uOpt]

Do these have dual-link DVI?

 

[2Xtreme21]

Not intended to thread crap, but by using RivaTuner, one can softmod any NV40 (quite possibly more... not sure about other cores though) card to a Quadro 4000 and back again with the check of a box.

Edit: Here's a small database in regards to which Geforce cards can be softmodded to which Quadro card. http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72188

 

[Dubb]

yeah, but you can't soft-mod dual link DVI. It also doesn't work for PCI-e cards yet (that I know of)

Not sure if the 540 has dvi-DL, but the 1100 and the 700 do IIRC.

 

[jpeyton]

The 540 is probably not a 6600GT, but rather a regular 6600. The RAM is GDDR, not GDDR3.

 

[PG]

The Rivatuner hack used to work, but not so much anymore. Nvidia has a new core revision on the 6600 series that won't mod at all. I unfortunately got stuck with one on my 6600GT I bought a few weeks ago, so these new cores are common.
So people know the new 6600 core is the NV43 Rev. A4. All A2 and A1's that I've read about seem to be moddable. You can use Rivatuner to see which NV43 you have.

The NV40 seems to be the same way, some of them mod but the later ones won't. Unwinder over at the guru3d forums has a new NVstrap he's working on and released to a few people, but it's not widely available yet.

If a person needs the pro capabilities, these are good deals. Too bad the 540 isn't made in AGP or I might jump on it.

 

[saechaka]

Originally posted by: PG
The Rivatuner hack used to work, but not so much anymore. Nvidia has a new core revision on the 6600 series that won't mod at all. I unfortunately got stuck with one on my 6600GT I bought a few weeks ago, so these new cores are common.
So people know the new 6600 core is the NV43 Rev. A4. All A2 and A1's that I've read about seem to be moddable. You can use Rivatuner to see which NV43 you have.

The NV40 seems to be the same way, some of them mod but the later ones won't. Unwinder over at the guru3d forums has a new NVstrap he's working on and released to a few people, but it's not widely available yet.

If a person needs the pro capabilities, these are good deals. Too bad the 540 isn't made in AGP or I might jump on it.

i have this "Graphics core : NV43 revision A2 (8x1,3vp)" can someone point me to where i can read up on this softmod or how to do it. thanks

 

[PG]

Sure, the information is in this forum in general:

http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.p...a7b971cee65eee874d2d3a3d7ce&forumid=18

but the info is in many threads...

This one is good, but refers to a 6800. The same thing is done for a 6600 excpet for changing the PCI device ID to a quadro 540.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php...3482d98bc35f9b3370c479&threadid=122413

One thing to remember is that this hurts gaming performance. Unless you use certain apps it won't do you any good at all. But if you do use those pro apps the performance sometimes is doubled or more. I've even seen UG benchmarks go up by a factor of 6X.

There are some benchs in the forums in places too.

 

[Samus]

Softmod or Not...these are HOT prices for professionals that don't want a ghettorig solution like softmodding.

 

[feelingshorter]

good price