transform your GTX 690 in a quadro

[firejuggler]

might be of interest for some.
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/project...-counterparts/

[henryzz]

Originally Posted by firejuggler

might be of interest for some.
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/project...-counterparts/

Would this unlock the reduced dp speed?

[Chuck]

Waaaaay too scary for me — I'll leave this to the young bucks.

[firejuggler]

quoting the OP

For those that are just spewing trash on HaD comments without doing a little research... the parts are identical, changing the Device ID just makes the binary blob advertise the additional features to the system, and enables them. It does NOT affect the clock speeds, and will not make the card faster for general day to day work unless you are using the specialised software that takes advantage of these 'professional' features. Changing the ID does not affect the clock speeds as they are configured by the BIOS which we are not touching.

And stock, the GTX690 is clocked FASTER then the K5000 and the Tesla K10, so you are getting a faster card in comparison, not making the GTX690 faster.

I repeat, this does NOT make your GTX 6XX card faster, nor does it make it slower.

His objective was to enable the triple display under linux.
Beyond that, I have no idea.

[henryzz]

Originally Posted by firejuggler

quoting the OP

For those that are just spewing trash on HaD comments without doing a little research... the parts are identical, changing the Device ID just makes the binary blob advertise the additional features to the system, and enables them. It does NOT affect the clock speeds, and will not make the card faster for general day to day work unless you are using the specialised software that takes advantage of these 'professional' features. Changing the ID does not affect the clock speeds as they are configured by the BIOS which we are not touching.
 
And stock, the GTX690 is clocked FASTER then the K5000 and the Tesla K10, so you are getting a faster card in comparison, not making the GTX690 faster.
 
I repeat, this does NOT make your GTX 6XX card faster, nor does it make it slower.

His objective was to enable the triple display under linux.
Beyond that, I have no idea.

I realize. I read through the thread and found no mention.

[ET_]

No difference in speed.

Firejuggler, you also on LinkedIn? :-)

Luigi

[firejuggler]

I wander everywhere on the interweb, but not on LinkedIn.
got the link from http://korben.info/
its a french IT info site.

[ixfd64]

That's an interesting find! It's almost certainly a warranty-voiding move, though.

[kracker]

Originally Posted by ixfd64

That's an interesting find! It's almost certainly a warranty-voiding move, though.

It is.

[tServo]

Last year, on a similar blog sit that catered to 3D graphics designers and
animators, I found a post by a guy who worked in a shop that had a
large number of high-end Quadros, a few Teslas, and some of the
fastest GeForce boards. They were all Fermi boards and they used Cuda
for a lot of their intensive crunching. He was their support guy and, for
fun, he took the bios from a Tesla and burned a Quadro and a GeForce
board with it to see what Tesla features he could activate. Surprisingly,
he got some nice results, more so with the Quadro board than the GeForce.
Of course, he didn't get ECC memory since that's a hardware feature but
got almost everything else. This says to me that the Quadros are
more Tesla than GeForce in heritage. In fact, I believe they share the
same drivers. He got a nice performance boost mainly due to the
better memory copy between host and device.
I wish I had saved the link.
But, as has been pointed out, this is waaaaaayyy too scary for me.

[kracker]

Originally Posted by tServo

Last year, on a similar blog sit that catered to 3D graphics designers and
animators, I found a post by a guy who worked in a shop that had a
large number of high-end Quadros, a few Teslas, and some of the
fastest GeForce boards. They were all Fermi boards and they used Cuda
for a lot of their intensive crunching. He was their support guy and, for
fun, he took the bios from a Tesla and burned a Quadro and a GeForce
board with it to see what Tesla features he could activate. Surprisingly,
he got some nice results, more so with the Quadro board than the GeForce.
Of course, he didn't get ECC memory since that's a hardware feature but
got almost everything else. This says to me that the Quadros are
more Tesla than GeForce in heritage. In fact, I believe they share the
same drivers. He got a nice performance boost mainly due to the
better memory copy between host and device.
I wish I had saved the link.
But, as has been pointed out, this is waaaaaayyy too scary for me.

unless you have around maybe $10000 with nothing else to do you could expiriment :p