Radeon 9500 to 9700 - Anyone Tried this?

[Kai Robinson]

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

 

[Skid]

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 www.xbitlabs.com and in the tweaking
forum at www.rage3d.com you'll find plenty of info on how to do it right and
what you can expect.