can a 9500 non pro be modded to a 9700?

[cow123]

ok some people seem to think they can softmod a 9500 non pro to a 9700, what do u think about this?

 

[Lonyo]

Well, yeah, they can.

Certain 9500's were built on the 9700 PCB's. The 9500 core is the same as the 9700 core, except it has half the pipelines disabled.
If you enable the pipelines, then you basically have a 9700, although the clock speeds might not be up there, and there might be artifacting due to bad pipelines.

But it only works for certain 9500's (with red PCB's, Sapphire I believe)

 

[Mavrick007]

Yes, the red saphire board is the one that will let you mod it to "approximate" 9700/Pro speeds.
It has to be the board with the ram in the "L" shape config. The revision board that sapphire makes is black and has the ram in the "straight" line position.

There is a softmod and a hardmod where you end up soldering connections but the softmod works well and is probably the safer choice.
A new bios is flashed to the board and then if everything works out right, the computer will see it as a 9700 with approximately the same speeds.

 

[cow123]

but what i was wondering is this, how can a 9500 with a 128bit memory interface be softmodded to 256bit?

 

[Lonyo]

A 9500 with 128-bit memory interface is either a 9500Pro or a 9500 non=pro with 64MB RAM.

The 9500Pro has 8 pipelines but is hindered by the 128-bit mem bus, and can only be overclocked, not modded.
The 9500-64MB can also be modded to enable the extra pipelines, making a 64MB 9500Pro.

The 128-bit mem bus cannot be changed, its a hardware thing that's physically there as 128-bit, not 256-bit.
Can;t mod 128-bit to 256-bit.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: cow123
ok some people seem to think they can softmod a 9500 non pro to a 9700, what do u think about this?

it is possible. odds are 1 in 3