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These cards retail for alot and they are described as application cards. I was wondering if anybody knew how well they'd run games like half life 2 & doom 3.
The last Quadro I played with wasn't a good gamer. It could handle 3DSMax, but wasn't exemplary at 3DMark2001 (which was the de facto benchmark at the time.)
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they're designed for rendering etc not palying games...my bro has one, not the greatest 3dmark score but its renders 3ds max like no one's business...
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The cards themselves are basically identical to the consumer graphics cards they're based on. The difference is they have a different bios or something that enables the pukka Open GL features in the drivers (and presumably they have higher quality control on the cards?). You can turn most Geforce Cards into an equivalent Quadro using RivaTuner, but there's not much point unless you're using a rendering program that can actually use the power. I know sod all about graphics programs I'm afraid.
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As luck would have it, a Quadro FX 4000 is sitting pretty in my AGP test rig, ready for eval. I'm trying to snag Quadro FX 3000 or 3400 for comparison. Andrzej, if ATI wanted to loan me a FireGL, I'd be more than happy to pair them up...
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it actually a mod to the hardware to turn the lowly geforce into a quadro...requires a bit of soldering so the card changes pipeline directions and hence becomes a better renderer and not so good at games anymore...Originally Posted by Rave
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Nonsense- 'changes pipeline directions' indeedThe hardware mod is required if you want to get a card which actually appears to the computer as a Quadro, but all the mod does is change a 4-bit (or maybe 8-bit) identifier code that the drivers use to determine whether the card is a Quadro or not. Rivatuner effectively hacks the NVidia drivers to persuade them that the identifier is a Quadro one and hence it persuades them to use the core's full open GL capability.
It is possible that a Quadro will perform slower in games and benchmarks than an equivalent GeForce, but if so that would be a driver issue not a hardware one.
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