Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
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Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#2Wonderful! While I hesitate to break a $1,100 video card, a little hack generates so much value.
What other awesome hardware hacks radically improve the value of your equipment, be it electronic / analog? We're talking about the 100%+ value improvements here.
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#3This is why you don't piss off your userbase. Also this should be mirrored as this will be taken down fast.
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#4This is simply amazing! And since it's an actual hardware mod, Nvidia can't fix this right? On the other hand, those cruel corporate brats and their money making schemes.
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#5I don't entirely know how I feel about this hack. I feel like this is really similar to unlocking the "Professional" version of a piece of software with a serial key generator.
Although, I understand hardware is dramatically different than software, it's using the same principal -- the same reusable bits to assemble many different products, and then just using tools to mask features unless a user pays for them.
Then again, why should software be any different? Why shouldn't we be able to unlock the hidden features of our software with hex editors, and serial key generators?
What do you guys think?
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#6I don't entirely know how I feel about this hack. I feel like this is really similar to unlocking the "Professional" version of a piece of software with a serial key generator. Although, I understand hardware is dramatically different than software, it's using the same principal -- the same reusable bits to assemble many different products, and then just using tools to mask features unless a user pays for them. Then…
I think that if I own a piece of hardware, I am the sole owner of every single chip and screw on it, including every hardware hack that it may have.
On the other side, usually you don't own the software but only a license that grants you permission to use it.
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#7I don't entirely know how I feel about this hack. I feel like this is really similar to unlocking the "Professional" version of a piece of software with a serial key generator. Although, I understand hardware is dramatically different than software, it's using the same principal -- the same reusable bits to assemble many different products, and then just using tools to mask features unless a user pays for them. Then…
You're already paying an over-inflated price, and they want you to pay an even greater inflated price. It's the manufacturer's and software developers decision to bundle another product within each other. They are already charging too much for this GPU, and they try to squeeze the most profit they can from every chip.
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#8How do people find hacks like this? Looking at the board, that resistor is one among tons of components.
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#9I don't entirely know how I feel about this hack. I feel like this is really similar to unlocking the "Professional" version of a piece of software with a serial key generator. Although, I understand hardware is dramatically different than software, it's using the same principal -- the same reusable bits to assemble many different products, and then just using tools to mask features unless a user pays for them. Then…
That hardware is hardware. if I buy hardware from you can can do what ever I want with it.
Re: Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10
#10So this is basically a change of the PCI device ID. The capabilities are essentially the same; he just changed the device signature. A cool hack nonetheless.
Edit: After looking at the screenshots closer, that seems to be the case.
The device ID 0x11BA becomes 0x118F. Vendor ID remains 0x10DE on both. Memory, CPU and other important stuff are basically the same.
Very cool!