Turn Nvidia GeForce Vid Card Into Quadro

[Rob Perry]

I Just tried this.. I Have a GeForce 7300 and Now My Computer thinks I Have A Quadro FX 350..

And It Works... So far I see a definite improvement in Performance..

Here's the link http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx ... 539&pgno=0

Its only a software Mod.. No Soldering ..

I'm Stoked ....

[DanEpps]

I hate to break your bubble Rob, but all that does is change the internal "label" so that a GeForce reports itself to the operating system as a Quadro. The two cards have similar features and the GeForce uses a "features-disabled" version of the Quadro GPU. Those mods do not enable any disabled features.

There are lots of architectural differences between the two cards other than just the GPU itself.

I would NOT recommend that anyone follow this advice as it will void your warranty on the video card.

[Rob Perry]

Well say what you may But I Definetly see a improvment in the rendering speed..
and ANY Improvement is a welcome one...

Also when I select the render button when I'm in room layout it switches to render mode instantly...

Before the mod it would delay 5 or 6 seconds before the render screen would load.

I also notice the Nvidia control panel allows many more settings as well.

My card if off warranty anyway..

Being only a soft mod it can be switched back to normal easy..

[Rick Palechuk]

Tried it last night with a 8600 GT, lost the Wire-frame function in Custom Layout. Tried Deans Tweak, no better.

[Rob Perry]

Now that I've just done a complete project with the mod last nite this is what I notice..

Rendering speed is faster...

Saving a jpg of the render is faster...

The Scroll works faster as well...

However one thing I did notice was in the render mode ( Before rendering ) the D/W had a slightly funny look ( A couple funny angles sticking out )
But when I rendered it looked fine...

The Wireframe seems to work normal..

These differences were not dramatic but were definatly noticible.

The time it took me to save 8 renders on the project was noticibly less than before..

I'm hoping in time I will not find anything negetive about doing this..

[Kerry Fullington]

Rick,

I think Dean's Tweak will only work with the Quadro Cards.

[Rick Palechuk]

Thank you Kerry, the soft-mod changes the characteristics of the card so that it is recognized as a Quadro FX 1700. The Tweak took, it just didn't make any difference. I use the Tweak on my Workstation.(HP 8710w).

[Nick M Singer]

Hi Rob
I am keen to try this and have downloaded the relevant software from Techarp, but it does not look like the one on the site and there does not appear to be a tab to softmod the the card

[Gary Puckett]

Will this work with any nvidia? I have the Gforce 9800GT. Also is it safe? if there is any harm done, would it be reversible?

Thanks
Gary