Quadro4 500 GoGL vs. Geforce4 440 Go (hacked)

[dejacky]

I'm leaning towards getting a laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) but would like to know if it's possible to hardware hack a Geforce4 440 Go to a Quadro4 500 GoGL. The laptop would need to run CAD applications like Solid Works, ProEngineer, etc fast. Comments on www.deja.com said that the software hack wasn't working because Nvidia put some kind of harware device to prevent this? Can someone please clarify or help me? Thanks.

-dejacky

p.s. I'm planning on selling my beautiful athlonXP system ($1500), so if anyone is interested lmk via pm.

 

[dejacky]

bump

someone here HAS to know?

 

[dejacky]

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[Mingon]

In all honesty its not worth the hassle. The 440go is based around a pumped up geforce 2 mx (addditional hsr suport+advanced memory controller and the increased clock speeds) but the actual difference between it and the quadro is likely to be very little. Save you warranty and just get more ram, that will make the most improvement (also consider a 5400rpm harddrive if yours is the slower 4200rpm version). Either way unless your doing big assemblies you should get very good performance.

 

[dejacky]

Well someone with a dell lattitude c840 has recently hacked his Geforce4 440 into the Quadro via software. He said that it enables back buffering which eliminated the "slow downs" in Solid Works when huge assemblies were being done. Btw, I do plan on getting a 5400rpm dell notebook with 512MB ddr ram (P4 1.7Ghz). Possibly the LAttitude used a different motherboard than Inspiron series? Thanks for the input Mingon!

-dejacky