8800GT into Quadro

you won't be able to turn it into a quadro because it is an 8800GT and uses the G92 chip. you could flash the bios to a higher voltage and overclock it or you could do a hardware volt mod of the VGPU and overclock it to around 900/2200/1200 if you are lucky and have excellent cooling. The extra 400+mhz of shaders should help with CUDA but an 8800GT isn't going to be as efficient as a top of the line quaddro card, no enough shaders

also you stopped being able to unlock extra shaders and stuff after the 6*** o 7*** nvidia series that probably explains the nvstrap

Here these links might be helpful to you:

http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=539

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/lof...p/t134631.html

And this is where I got it from:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=17995195

I have seen this done in a past issue of Maximum PC as well so I am sure it can be done with a little modification to the drivers. Good luck!

Sorry I guess I should have read the entire post. ill dig through my past issues of MPC and see if I cant get the info on how to do it for you

you won't be able to do anything with Nvstrap, just reflash the bios

the last nvidia cards you could unlock pixel pipelines and shaders were the nvidia 6800 series, since then they stopped locking certain parts of the card with software.. i.e. you cna no longer unlock stuff with rivatuner

good luck bios flashing is generally pretty easy, from what I read this give you a little boost in how it renders CAD

LOL. I got it now. I missed the part when I was told to use -4 -5 -6 parameters when using NVFlash. Downloading the drivers now...

Rivatuner has known issues with 64 bit versions of Vista, and therefore I assume windows 7. rivatuner64.sys is classified by windows as an 'unsigned driver' therefore you must boot windows with driver signing disabled or use Rivatuner on a 32 bit version of windows to get it to work properly.

I assume rivatuner64.sys is a a driver that supports to low level hardware / nvstrap that is necessary for this mod. Sorry about the confusion before. i don't get this option in vista 64 with my 8800gt, ill install riva tuner on my dual boot xp 32bit to verify. hope this helps

edit: I can't test now actually because im converting/burning an mkv files, it'll be around an hour before I can see

not sure what to say, did you enable low level hardware monitoring and any other features required to do overclocking and system monitoring?

okay I found the issue it was CPU magazine:

http://www.computerpoweruser.com/edi...6ABC7332212DFC

But I read in the magazine that if the NVStrap is not available in Riva then your Geforce is not supported by riva or it cant be soft modded into a quadro. so I cant say for certainty but I believe the Doc was right.

I have the device strings for the G92's that can be soft modded to various quadros:
DEV_0619.1 = quadro 4700 X2
DEV_061A.1 = quadro 3700
DEV_061B.1 = quadro 200
DEV_061C.1 = quadro 3600M

so only available on the GTS it seems?

Well no It is for all types of 8800 but for the GT G92's it only consists of four versions