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ColdFlo · Nov 21, 2012, 10:51 AM

In the 70s computer hardware was very cheap do you think something called a chip really costs that much per unit? its all somewhat fraudulent. Do you really think that hermes bags or louis vuitton really cost 1000 dollars a piece when textiles cost pennies per square foot? Nvidia has always made money with drivers and simple hardware features like id resistors or laser cutting larger die cores to make gimped versions to sell for less so you cant just buy the cheaper card and enable full functionality... the drivers always played a key role in this. Do you think they make a whole different chip for the quadro line of business graphics cards? No this would cost too much money do you really think there is a physical difference between a 2000 dollar quadro card and a 500 dollar geforce card. Usually very little maybe the quadro might have double the ram but often on the top of the line card that adds up to little performance the only difference is the driver installed and if the card is recognized by that driver. So nvidia decided to get a little greedy what 6 7 years back with SLI and started charging the motherboard companies for SLI bios license registration so they could take some more money out of motherboard sales and get the consumer to buy multiple graphics cards in order to compete with each other to get double the frames or more to kill each other in computer games. Thats why motherboards jumped up to 300 dollars and SLI became more common just a scam to extort more money from the customer. Think of all those fools that bought quadros and paid 2000 for a card that the avg kid is buying for 500 or that the card itself doesnt cost anywhere near that much to make its all just inflated greed prices. I converted my 6800 ultra back in the day to the quadro equivalent installed the quadro driver and it ran the CAD programs with much more precision but the gaming performance was slower. All companies control hardware with drivers. I installed those 301.10 680 only drivers after modifying the INF file in the driver install folder after I extracted the installer exe using winrar so that it would install on my 8800gtx SLI. The drawing of the maps looked bolder and more bullish as if more polygons were being rendered. So your old card is set up to render the only way they keep that consistent in the driver and the newer cards have different parameters that the drivers tell it to render in more detail.

Nov 21, 2012, 10:51 AM	#1454
ColdFlo Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 19 (0.04/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	In the 70s computer hardware was very cheap do you think something called a chip really costs that much per unit? its all somewhat fraudulent. Do you really think that hermes bags or louis vuitton really cost 1000 dollars a piece when textiles cost pennies per square foot? Nvidia has always made money with drivers and simple hardware features like id resistors or laser cutting larger die cores to make gimped versions to sell for less so you cant just buy the cheaper card and enable full functionality... the drivers always played a key role in this. Do you think they make a whole different chip for the quadro line of business graphics cards? No this would cost too much money do you really think there is a physical difference between a 2000 dollar quadro card and a 500 dollar geforce card. Usually very little maybe the quadro might have double the ram but often on the top of the line card that adds up to little performance the only difference is the driver installed and if the card is recognized by that driver. So nvidia decided to get a little greedy what 6 7 years back with SLI and started charging the motherboard companies for SLI bios license registration so they could take some more money out of motherboard sales and get the consumer to buy multiple graphics cards in order to compete with each other to get double the frames or more to kill each other in computer games. Thats why motherboards jumped up to 300 dollars and SLI became more common just a scam to extort more money from the customer. Think of all those fools that bought quadros and paid 2000 for a card that the avg kid is buying for 500 or that the card itself doesnt cost anywhere near that much to make its all just inflated greed prices. I converted my 6800 ultra back in the day to the quadro equivalent installed the quadro driver and it ran the CAD programs with much more precision but the gaming performance was slower. All companies control hardware with drivers. I installed those 301.10 680 only drivers after modifying the INF file in the driver install folder after I extracted the installer exe using winrar so that it would install on my 8800gtx SLI. The drawing of the maps looked bolder and more bullish as if more polygons were being rendered. So your old card is set up to render the only way they keep that consistent in the driver and the newer cards have different parameters that the drivers tell it to render in more detail.