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http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=539
It's a well known 'secret' that the uber-expensive Quadro cards made by Nvidia are exactly the same as the consumer or Gaming glass cards that sell for a fraction of the price. Now somebody's gone and made a way to allow you to install Quadro drivers for your Geforce and reap the benefits in MAX, Maya and CAD.
Nvidia can't be happy about this 
THOMAS SHANNON
SENIOR DESIGN VISUALIZATION SPECIALIST
PB Project Visualization
http://www.pbprojectviz.com/
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| Those tricks have been around for years. I've tried this on most of my nVidia cards over the years, as well as ATI cards (I had a Radeon9800 soft modded into a FireGL without much trouble) The only difference nowadays between the cards tends to be a few driver extensions turned on or off. It's just too expensive to fab a different die for different lines of cards. I did softmod my 8800GTS a while back to see if it would perform similarly to the comprable quadro card. In OpenGL it was about 80-90% the performance in SpecGLPerf, the difference probably being made up in the memory difference (my card had 320MB, I think the same Quadro had 512 or 768). But in the end, that's 90% the performance for 15% of the price. In Direct3D, there was almost no difference up or down (if anything, a bit down in things like 3DMark), and was in fact already benchmarking about the same as the Quadro. Since just about everything I do used D3D (Max viewport, games, etc) there wasn't much advantage to a soft mod, so in the end I just left it as a GeForce. SJ
Steve JohnsonPBProject Visualization Technical Resource CenterE-Mail: johnsonste@pbworld.com...................................................................................................
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