Radeon 9500 to Radeon 9700 Mod

[BavariaBlade]

Some russian guys have modded their R9500 to a R9700.
It seems to be no fake. Here is the manual

http://www.digit-life.com/archive.shtml?20030105

some german people are going to test it, I will post if they have success.

servus Axel

[Ioman]

Thanks for the link, this is a pretty good read. I wonder how they figured out how to do this? Do you think that someone inside ATI gave the tip away? It looks like a hardware verus a driver change, so a warning for those that want to try this, it could ruin your card.

[BavariaBlade]

As you can see here:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1041838349

The R9700 Pro, R9700, R9500 uses the same PCB,
only the PCB of the R9500 PRO is different !!

So it could really work !
You also need a 128MB version of the R9500 to get the 256bit connection to the memory!

[BavariaBlade]

you needn´t speak german for this picture:


http://www.jes-computer.de/catalog/p...ducts_id=12286

I heard this card would cost about 150 dollars in the us.In europe it is much more expensive (about 200€).

I also read that ATI is going to change the PCB of the 9500 to that of the 9500 pro in future.

But lets wait a few days and we will se the first Mod (or not ??) which was done by a normal PC USER!!

english typing is not my thing


servus Axel

EDIT: I found that US link http://www.pricewatch.com/1/37/4999-1.htm as i expected 153 dollars thats cheap

[BavariaBlade]

Some guy in a german forum postet this link

http://www.pricewatch.com/1/37/4999-1.htm

its a korean website ( can´t read this) .
He said they found another resistor to unlock the GPU to the verry expensive professionel Fire Gl

It is getting really funny if they tell the truth

Look at this

[senoryoshio]

seems a lot like when people were turning there GeForce(s) into Quadro cards by soldering a resistor....so the performance etc. doesn't change but the card is recognized as something else by the OS.....guess its cool, doesn't seem much worth it though

[ECA]

Archon.
the markets in Europe and the US are Different.
Products have different names, and SOME even different options.

Ever play the game Archon from 20 years ago?
1 and 2 were great.

[Archon]

Originally posted by ECA
Archon.
the markets in Europe and the US are Different.
Products have different names, and SOME even different options.

Ever play the game Archon from 20 years ago?
1 and 2 were great.

Aye, this is true. However, not for 9500 cards, they are the exact same everywhere. (Even Canada, and they're all weird there )

Archon was an awesome game.

[BavariaBlade]

AS you can see here The R9500 is alive. This is the 9500 NON PRO because it has only 4 Pixel Piplines and not 8 how the 9500 PRO does. You can read this in the featuretext below.

servus Axel

[ECA]

Originally posted by BavariaBlade
AS you can see here The R9500 is alive. This is not the 9500 NON PRO because the 9500 has only 4 Pixel Piplines and not 8 how the 9500 pro does. You can read this in the featuretext below.

servus Axel

BB.
Plz. Double negitives give me headaches.
"This is not the 9500 NON PRO " This is the 9500 Pro would work as well.

Double negitives tend to bother me, as sometimes Those that write them, may have lost there idea, and mis-stated waht they wanted.