Radeon 9500 Mod To Radeon 9700

[MrBling]

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.

This is pirated from VR-Zone, so take it with a grain of salt if you will.
Figured someone here would probably find it interesting and I hadn't seen any posts about it.

hm.. seems someone already posted about this.. I must be getting blind from old age.
Ignore this post.