Are Quadro Cards Locked (No OC)?

[Hurican7]

I have a somewhat unorthodox system (GTX 750ti running secondary monitor with a Quadro P2000 running the main monitor) and am trying to figure out how to OC the quadro. MSI Afterburner seems to work fine on the 750ti, but after I move the sliders on the Quadro settings and click "Apply," they revert back to 0, even if I bump clock speeds by only 1 MHz. I see threads where people claim to have overclocked their Quadro cards, but they don't detail how they did it. I've also heard that Quadro cards can't be OC'd using 3rd party software or even with the Nvidia Control Panel.

 

Is the card stuck at stock speeds or is there a workaround I haven't tried yet?

[Radium_Angel]

Quadros are designed for CAD level work (and the like), and certified drivers. They were never designed to be overclocked.

IIRC, you could "fake" a Quadro to use normal nVidia drivers, in which case it might be able to be overclocked...

[Crunchy Dragon]

It may be possible to OC your Quadro in the BIOS

[TurbulentWinds]

I'm not sure about your Quadro card but I know that I was able to OC a Quadro in a old laptop. I used Afterburner but I'm not sure if the settings actually stuck. Was just messing around; laptop does not need more thermal issues . . . 

[Princess Luna]

Did you DDU in safe mode when you swap cards?

[Guest]

Yes and No

http://www.overclock.net/t/854693/overclock-quadro-4000-flex-your-gamer-wisdom

[Hurican7]

It might be a limitation inherent in the current drivers that isn't in the drivers for older cards. It does make sense that Nvidia wouldn't want people to OC Quadros since they already seem to run on the toasty side. It just seems weird that you can find so many examples of OC'd quadros, granted they aren't the Pascal architecture.

 

I think I'll avoid trying to get the Quadro to use Geforce drivers since I do have to do workstation stuff that utilizes the Quadro's features.

 

I have read that you can flash a card to make it behave like its counterpart (Quadro to Geforce, Geforce to Quadro), but I'm also not going to mess with that.

 

To clarify, I'm not swapping cards - they are running simultaneously and driving different monitors.

 

@9291Sam Thanks for the link. I can control the fan curve for both cards in Afterburner (which I started doing a while ago since the Quadro tends to get warm), so I think Nvidia just doesn't want people to overclock Quadro cards.

 

It's not the end of the world that this card can't be overclocked. I'd prefer to be able to be able to change the settings for both cards all in one place anyway.

[JP FERREIRA]

i have got the same problem with my rtx 4000 . wont move the sliders