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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[Lefty2446]

Betcha he feels like a turkey for posting his story now...

15 minutes later - and it's already gone down

[KingDaveRa]

Is it just me, or has their site ALREADY fallen over?

The DMCA DOES has something to do with this, here:

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[rastachops]

I submitted this article ages ago...

2003-01-13 10:13:21 Turn a Radeon 9500 into a 9700 (articles,usa) (rejected)

Dammit.....

Cant Be legal

[nurb432]

You are modifying things you dont *own*, only have a *right to use* ( under restrictions set forth in your EULA ) .

Plus it smells of 'reverse engineering'..

Today, both of these gets you in trouble.

BAD TO THE BONE

[Anonymous Coward]

WARNING: DO NOT LET DR. MARIO TOUCH YOUR GENITALS. HE IS NOT A REAL DOCTOR.

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