GeForce2 Quadro2 Pro Announced

can I make my geforce sdr into a quadro?

and where do I read on how to do it.

BTW I can't read chinese.

I'm good with soldiering made my athlon 700 into an 850 with zero problems and it's a C not an A.

please udate me on this

Seems I was right to send this little conspiracy in.

Nvidia becoming MS? Stifling the press and crushing companies who would compete? (note that they are actually selling the Quadro cards this time).

oh BLAH
my 1 meg trident OWNES

I'm an nvidia fanboy so don't get me wrong but how is this product different from 3DFX voodoo 6? 3DFX doesn't look as stupid now...

$75 I think it also has an LCD out (never seen one before -and I work with computers... Embarassing)

Any takes?

ya got a good deal #25

I couldn't find anyone with a DDR for sale then so I went with next best thing.

:)

going rate on a sdr is $85-$100 used
$100-$135 with TV-OUT

$150 for DDR

I bought my SDR 3 months ago (upgraded from TnT-2 Ultra) for $100

anyone interested in buying a GeForce SDR w tv/out?

i love my geforce 2.
and if i open my case and put a fan right into it, i can overclock it until it's a quadro 2.

Uhhh, no I'm not.

I totally agree it is hypocritical of NVIDIA about the 5ns RAM. I said that fairly clearly I thought.

I DO NOT agree that they are ripping people off for the pro graphics features due to the fact that you can solder a GF2 GTS to a GF2 Pro (or Geforce 256 to Quadro).

Totally seperate arguements. I'm really saying exactly what I said.

I really could care less about the Quadro 2. I have a GTS overclocked like mad, so it's not a BFD.



Now, the NV20. There's some shit... I'm all over that card once it's out the gate.



I am down with the fact that I can post @ work now. FreshView beware, your monster posting record is in trouble! or not...



-Rev.

NVIDIA invested engineering time to create the workstation features of the Geforce. They have to regain that investment somehow. How can they BEST do that? Making two separate chips, one consumer, one professional would cost too much and negate the premium they could charge ESPECIALLY given the volume for the pro card is very low. So they build the features into a single chip and disable those features on the consumer marketed unit. It's NOT ripping people off. It's just the realities of manufacturing. Get over it. You're lucky to be able to solder a consumer card to a pro one. How do YOU suggest they go about doing this?

Same deal with Promise and their controller and RAID cards. Also often the same deal as Intel or AMD speed binning their CPU's, marking 900mhz capable CPU's as a 600, rather than truely make 600mhz CPUs that are less capable than the 900mhz models. It would be ridiculous to run two separate manufacturing lines to make two only slightly different products when you can just build a single chip and castrate it.

I don't know of many people overclocking their Geforce 2's to 250/400. 230/366 might be common but 250/400 is a bit more rare. And who says you can't overclock the Pro from 250/400 to 275/475? Maybe NVIDIA has been saving some high yield chips for the Pro?

Yes, very hypocritical of NVIDIA to suddenly pull 5ns 200mhz DDR RAM out of their ass while they say Gainward can't get any. Maybe Elsa and NVIDIA have been giving Infineon handjobs or something. But of course this card isn't released yet. I guess no one is allowed to beat NVIDIA to the punch, eh?

maybe i could get a quaddro2 MXR so i can have fast graphics and dual displays.

I didn't notice much performance from the regular geforce and the quadro.

@least in opengl

the press release says the card is using the same core as the geforce2, so hmmmm

i imagine nvidia did something else with the design though, they couldnt be the full of shit. heh

well, i still think they didnt want that super geforce 2 to be cloecked as high as it was just because they new it would compete with this new product of theres. god damnit, how come no matter what company is on top, there always assholes and full of shit.?

So Nvidia says that they don't reccomend another company's overclocked card, because they are afraid it is a better solution than the overclocked and overpriced card that they are going to sell now?

The Quadro2?