Hi folks... (yea.. new to the forum... alas not to the hardware world)...
Anyway... Ive beein doing a little testing on my Geforce 6600 GT card... and found that I could unlock it to a Quadro FX 540 card with the RivaTuner software...
So I did... in 3D benchmark 2001 I had (before unlocking) about 12000 points in the tests (not PRO version). After I unlocked it I got 18200 points in avarage...
So far so good... I was thrilled over those results... hehehe But then I continued to read on at different sites... Then I noticed that the Geforce 6600 has higher bandwith (16gb) and the quadro 540 has (8gb)... atleast if Nvidia is telling the truth... how will this affect me??
Or is the 16gb bandwith from the 6600 card still used by the Quadro drivers and thus giving me those high scores??
Tested 3D benchmark 2003 also and got 8500 points... the 2006 version was able to run but at frames around 4-5 hehehe
Anyway... will I be better off using 6600 drivers or should I use the Quadro ?? I tell myself that the image quality and detail levels in games are much better with quadro drivers... but I am known to fool myself... hahaha
I can run Hitman Blood Money at 1024x768 with max settings on everything without lag... Oblivion at 800x600 max settings without lag... if I go higher on those games it starts to lag...
Call of Duty 2 I can play at 1280x1024 maxed out with no lag whatsoever... I just love that... hehehe
All with quadro drivers...
Well... If you guys have any experiance on this let me know...
Also... will I be able to increase performance even more by tweaking and if so how??
Anyway... Ive beein doing a little testing on my Geforce 6600 GT card... and found that I could unlock it to a Quadro FX 540 card with the RivaTuner software...
So I did... in 3D benchmark 2001 I had (before unlocking) about 12000 points in the tests (not PRO version). After I unlocked it I got 18200 points in avarage...
So far so good... I was thrilled over those results... hehehe But then I continued to read on at different sites... Then I noticed that the Geforce 6600 has higher bandwith (16gb) and the quadro 540 has (8gb)... atleast if Nvidia is telling the truth... how will this affect me??
Or is the 16gb bandwith from the 6600 card still used by the Quadro drivers and thus giving me those high scores??
Tested 3D benchmark 2003 also and got 8500 points... the 2006 version was able to run but at frames around 4-5 hehehe
Anyway... will I be better off using 6600 drivers or should I use the Quadro ?? I tell myself that the image quality and detail levels in games are much better with quadro drivers... but I am known to fool myself... hahaha
I can run Hitman Blood Money at 1024x768 with max settings on everything without lag... Oblivion at 800x600 max settings without lag... if I go higher on those games it starts to lag...
Call of Duty 2 I can play at 1280x1024 maxed out with no lag whatsoever... I just love that... hehehe
All with quadro drivers...
Well... If you guys have any experiance on this let me know...
Also... will I be able to increase performance even more by tweaking and if so how??