Can a 9800 Sapphire non pro be soft modded to a 9800 pro? I read a few
articals about bios flashing but I dont feel brave enough or qualified
enough to risk frying the card. I have heard about "soft modded" drivers
from Omega, converting 9500's into 9700's and 9800se's into 9800's etc...
but I haven't seen any to convert 9800>9800pro.
Is there such a driver?
I have the Infineon ram, not the Samsung. My card can be overclocked to
380x670 but no further, just under pro speeds. Artifacts appear all over if
I push it any further.
Just curious.
Cheers
Milo

"Milo Malhame" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<GYmTb.367189$JQ1.68763@pd7tw1no>...
> Can a 9800 Sapphire non pro be soft modded to a 9800 pro? I read a few
> articals about bios flashing but I dont feel brave enough or qualified
> enough to risk frying the card. I have heard about "soft modded" drivers
> from Omega, converting 9500's into 9700's and 9800se's into 9800's etc...
> but I haven't seen any to convert 9800>9800pro.
> Is there such a driver?
> I have the Infineon ram, not the Samsung. My card can be overclocked to
> 380x670 but no further, just under pro speeds. Artifacts appear all over if
> I push it any further.
> Just curious.
> Cheers
> Milo

The difference between an 9800 Non Pro and the 9800 Pro is the speeds!
If you can run the card at 9800 Pro speeds, you have an 9800 Pro
overclock ?;-;z0vp

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:26:30 GMT, "Milo Malhame" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Can a 9800 Sapphire non pro be soft modded to a 9800 pro? I read a few
>articals about bios flashing but I dont feel brave enough or qualified
>enough to risk frying the card. I have heard about "soft modded" drivers
>from Omega, converting 9500's into 9700's and 9800se's into 9800's etc...

Yes these either enable 256bit on 256bit cards or enable the 4 unused
pipelines on 8 pipeline cards.

Since the 9800 just had lower clock speeds, you can't softmod it into
a 9800Pro. You can overclock it to a 9800 Pro if your card can handle
it. Of course, a 9800 Pro can probably handle higher speed so it will
never really bve a 9800 Pro.

BTW, bios flashing is unlikely to fry your card. If you modify the
bios for example, change clock speeds, enable disabled features or if
you simply use the wrong bios you might end up with an unusable card.
In which case, you will need to flash it back. Provided you have a PCI
card, you can probably do it (lthough there is no guarantee). But even
if you can't your card is not fried, it simply has an unusable bios
and so it's unusable.