9500pro - modable?

[Neuralstasis]

right, heres my question:
I have been having a bit of a look around this rivatune thing and its ability to mod up cards to be equal to their more powerful brothers.
BUT, it all the stuff seems to be about 9500np -> 9500pro OR 9500np (256bit) -> 9700np
Is there a software mod for 9500pro or is that already at its top performance? (before OC)

I ask cos its very hard to find a 9500np but their still are a few 9500pros, and as a 3d designer, I am considering getting one and moding it (via rivatune again) to a fireglX(or Z)1

anyone explaing the deal?
Thanks in advence.

 

[scottchen]

9500pro cannot be modded.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.51G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 270mhz 2.5-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[mopeygoth]

not the new versions anyway

Intel Pentium 4 - 400Mhz FSB - 2.4Ghz
- 1024mb pc-133 - Ati Radeon 9700@350mhz 128Mb@610mhz

 

[scottchen]

there was never an old 9500pro. Only the old Sapphire 9500 non-pro could be modded into an 9700pro.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.51G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 270mhz 2.5-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[mopeygoth]

we always used to mod the 9500pro into an 9700 (nonpro), but then again we don't get "build by Ati" cards over here.

When I write "old" versions, I am referring to the 128-bits (<rev 2)

Intel Pentium 4 - 400Mhz FSB - 2.4Ghz
- 1024mb pc-133 - Ati Radeon 9700@350mhz 128Mb@610mhz

 

[scottchen]

Basically the L-shaped memory ones will mod to 9700, the ones in a straight line won't.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.51G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 270mhz 2.5-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[mopeygoth]

=) cool... troulbe is that it is hard to be sure when you order.. that is one of the reasons I went straight for the 9700.

Intel Pentium 4 - 400Mhz FSB - 2.4Ghz
- 1024mb pc-133 - Ati Radeon 9700@350mhz 128Mb@610mhz

 

[scottchen]

That's y i don't buy online nor retail versions. I like OEM because they just have an anti-static bag you could see through, 3 weeks ago i got my friend a 9500np Built by Sapphire, successfully modded to 9700pro. A simple software mod, because i found him a L shaped memory 1. I got it for 180Canadian plus tax then charged him 250 for it

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.51G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 270mhz 2.5-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[mopeygoth]

hmm... I just like boxes =). But I do see your advantage. Nice one by the way

Intel Pentium 4 - 400Mhz FSB - 2.4Ghz
- 1024mb pc-133 - Ati Radeon 9700@350mhz 128Mb@610mhz

 

[scottchen]

ripped him off by 47 dollars canadian.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.51G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 270mhz 2.5-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[mopeygoth]

Indeed

Intel Pentium 4 - 400Mhz FSB - 2.4Ghz
- 1024mb pc-133 - Ati Radeon 9700@350mhz 128Mb@610mhz

 

[Titanion]

I bet you could mod a 9500pro into a nonpro. Then mod the 9500 nonpro into a 9700nonpro. I must be a genius or something.

<font color=red><b>To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.</b></font color=red>
John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, II 262-263

 

[joe_tlj]

I was looking around at pricewatch and I found these specs for a saphire 9500 np.
RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X TVO Red PCB 400 mhz Ramdac 275/540 Core/Memory L shape memory.

would I be able to overclock this card to a 9700 pro?

 

[scottchen]

50% success rate.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU