Anyone tried to hardmod a Geforce FX5800 to QFX2000?

lleoneye

Anyone here hardmoded a "Geforce FX5800" to get a Quadro FX 2000? (R1 resistor from A-B to B-C)

I have a few questions:

Do i still need Softquadro on a hardmoded one ?
Does newer 5x.xx drivers works with a hardmoded fx5800 version ?
Anyone tried to hardmod it and patch it with a real QFX2000 Bios to see if 5.x.xx driver works?

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lleoneye

loop29 · 01-14-2004, 22:21 | posts: 704 | Location: Nürnberg, Germany

I thought about trying it but my budget doesn´t allow it right now. But the suggestions you made I would second. And no there wouldn´t be a softquadro needed and I assume it should work on 5x.xx drivers, but you will never know what bricks and stones put in the way by nvidia and I´m pretty sure that they were aware of that possibility.
On the other hand I don´t think that it would improve much on my system being an Athlon XP 1800+, I just thought about the nifty effects that I could have in DCC applications and Unwinder said that in his eyes the NV30 is to weak to be considered a good solution for whatever, the problem with the not proper working pixel shader units can´t be overcome with software solutions I think. But I can´t really comment, I can do all the stuff with my SQ´ed Geforce 4 Ti4400 and that´s just fine, so sorry I couldn´t gave you a real information, just my 2 cents.

regards

lleoneye · 01-14-2004, 23:00 | posts: 22 | Location: GERMANY

you know if i should sold it with a such solder ?
http://www.aaroncake.net/electronics/solder.htm

or do i need a special one ?

matty429 · 01-15-2004, 09:06 | posts: 29

Where are you getting this hardmod info?
Can you only do it with a 5800?

lleoneye · 01-15-2004, 11:02 | posts: 22 | Location: GERMANY

here: http://guru3d.com/comments.php?id=1289&category=1

yes you can hardmod other cards but its the same using softquadro!
but noone know if it works with a 5800 because that card have something diferent that allow it to get high results on ugs and pro-e spec benchmarks.
maybe all features from quadro are on board and that card can become a real 100% working quadro by just moving that R1 resistor.

matty429 · 01-16-2004, 00:03 | posts: 29

Word...Ill try it on my 5700 ultra...I don't care for this card much...

lleoneye · 01-16-2004, 10:13 | posts: 22 | Location: GERMANY

dont work for a 5700!

matty429 · 01-17-2004, 06:28 | posts: 29

Yeah...I popped the heatsink off...it looks nothing like the others
but I took the opportunity to put thermal paste on the ram and the Gpu