X1900 XTX reflashing options?

[Jono]

Herro Hans Brix! I'm so ronery...

but anyway...

I have an ati x1900 xtx, which is as I'm sure you're well aware PCI-e and I really feel the need to have a FireGL card.

I understand that you could get something like an AGP 9800 pro and flash it to a FireGL card of sorts. I found a guide how to do that, something to do with a FireGl bios, some hacked drivers and rivatuner...

Quite an old guide. Is there anything similar that can be done with my current card.. I don't seem to have any AGP slots on my motherboard (asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe) funnily enough.

So anyway, can't afford £2000 for a nice FireGL card or Quadro FX - but is there anything that can be done to either a recentish PCI-e nVidia/Ati card to make it into its workstation equivalent?

I just read another thread here that said the PCI-e versions didn't seem to be flashable... boo. Suggestions?

 

[FreeStream]

What does it change? :/

In terms of a XTX...

 

[Jono]

I really don't know, other than Maya is certified to work (properly) with quadro fx and firegl cards, and if you use anything else you get much worse performance and/or display/corruption issues (i get unrefreshing viewports if i use maya on my primary display output)

oh and with a firegl/quadro fx the performance for the type of rendering 3d software does is blisteringly fast... i don't really understand the whys/hows.