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There has been talk of this mod going around the net. People, the Radeon 9500 Pro only has a 128 bit memory bus, you'll never go to 256bits. The only thing this mod does is make it so you have 8 pipelines instead of 4. This, like the BIOS flash will void your warranty. I have ripped this english translation from HardOCP.
I don't think it is worth it, and I guess no other websites can figure out that you'll never get a Radeon 9700 Pro from a Radeon 9500 Pro.
Update: Upon more investigation, it seems they are using a Sapphire Radeon 9500 (NON PRO), rumors are that this card is made from the same as the R9700 Pro! I warn you NOT to try this on a regular old 9500 (Pro) unless you know your card is based on the R9700 Pro PCB.
There has been talk of this mod going around the net. People, the Radeon 9500 Pro only has a 128 bit memory bus, you'll never go to 256bits. The only thing this mod does is make it so you have 8 pipelines instead of 4. This, like the BIOS flash will void your warranty. I have ripped this english translation from HardOCP.
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As you know that Radeon 9500 differs from Radeon 9700 series due to reduced number of pipelines to 4. However, it is now possible that you can transform it into a Radeon 9700 and overclockability can be improved by much. When you remove the cooler, you can see some resistors on the GPU package. Just re-solder resistor at position 2-3 to 1-2 and your Radeon 9500 will be modded into Radeon 9700. Flash the Radeon 9500 BIOS using the modified BIOS to unlock the core/mem frequency default locked by the ATi to prevent overclocking. The core clock can be pushed as much as to 370Mhz and as a result, it runs faster than the Radeon 9700 Pro.
I don't think it is worth it, and I guess no other websites can figure out that you'll never get a Radeon 9700 Pro from a Radeon 9500 Pro.
Update: Upon more investigation, it seems they are using a Sapphire Radeon 9500 (NON PRO), rumors are that this card is made from the same as the R9700 Pro! I warn you NOT to try this on a regular old 9500 (Pro) unless you know your card is based on the R9700 Pro PCB.