How to change your Radeon 9500 into a 9700

Ian Bell writes "We have just posted a very difficult guide to turning your ATI Radeon 9500 into a 9700. But you have to have the correct 9500. A 9500 with 4 rendering pipelines, modified to enable all 8 pipelines, will effectively double the memory bus, if you have the extra 64 Meg of memory to attach it to. We will explain below which card to acquire for this awesome graphics card transformation. Check out how to do this yourself and get the power of a 9700 at half the price." Update: 01/19 18:33 GMT by T : And for those running Windows, Sanity writes "Aside from the hardware mod, there is a program called Riva Tuner that has, among other things, a software mod for unlocking those gates, plus overclocking to a full 9700 pro! Gives me more $$$ to spend on cool stuff."

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[s20451]

is there a similar guide to turning my geforce2 into a geforce4 ti 4600?

Yes:

1. Get a bunch of components, a soldering gun, and a voltmeter.
2. Start soldering components to the geforce2 until it doesn't work any more. Optionally, take voltmeter readings to make yourself look cool.
3. Go to the store and buy a geforce4 ti 4600.

This will probably work about as well as the procedure in the article.