Radeon 9500 to 9700 - Anyone Tried this?

Hi ho all - found several links to sites that claim to have enabled the
extra 4-pixel pipelines on the Radeon 9500, turning it into a Radeon 9700,
as well as doubling the memory bandwidth - anyone actually tried this?

If so - the Soft9700 script included in the RivaTuner will be the way i do
it - no voiding the warranty with the BIOS flash and the Resistor Change.

And yes, the board i'll be using is the Red one with the 'L' shaped memory -
128mb version

Cheers

Kai

I've been using one successfully for about two years now. I used the
soft-mod to make sure the extra pipelines would work without artifacts and
checkerboards, then tested the overclocking capabilities of the card.

After that I did the hard-mod with a drop of conductive paint from a
rear-window defogger repair kit from an auto parts store. At that point I
did a bios flash to identify the card as a 9700 and make the overclock
permanent.

If you search for Radeon 9500 mod at <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.xbitlabs.com" target="_blank">www.xbitlabs.com</a> and in the tweaking
forum at <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.rage3d.com" target="_blank">www.rage3d.com</a> you'll find plenty of info on how to do it right and
what you can expect.

"Kai Robinson" <kai_robinsonspam RemoveThis @tiscali.fr> wrote in message
news:4023ac02$0$28671$626a14ce@news.free.fr...
 > Hi ho all - found several links to sites that claim to have enabled the
 > extra 4-pixel pipelines on the Radeon 9500, turning it into a Radeon 9700,
 > as well as doubling the memory bandwidth - anyone actually tried this?
 >
 > If so - the Soft9700 script included in the RivaTuner will be the way i do
 > it - no voiding the warranty with the BIOS flash and the Resistor Change.
 >
 > And yes, the board i'll be using is the Red one with the 'L' shaped
memory -
 > 128mb version
 >
 > Cheers
 >
 > Kai
 >
 >
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