Hi everybody!
I just bought a Radeon 9500 non-pro card on eBay and modified it to get a Radeon 9700 pro card. I first reenabled the 8 pixel pipelines and the overclocked the core and memory to the values of a 9700 pro. It's working great.
This is the process of softmodding.
http://www.ocfaq.com/softmod/faq.php
http://reviews.designtechnica.com/guide13.html
I had corrupted screen, but using Rage 3D tweak, I have been able to reduce the Z-Compression to "low" which removed some of the artifact. Highering the AGP voltage in the BIOS removed the chessboard/checkerboard effect. Now it is working flawlessly.
I know the specific R9500 card with L shaped memory (=256bit) are hard to find, but on eBay, some are still available so check this out!
<font color=red>The good Smoked Meat Maple Leaf Extra-Fat!
I just bought a Radeon 9500 non-pro card on eBay and modified it to get a Radeon 9700 pro card. I first reenabled the 8 pixel pipelines and the overclocked the core and memory to the values of a 9700 pro. It's working great.
This is the process of softmodding.
http://www.ocfaq.com/softmod/faq.php
http://reviews.designtechnica.com/guide13.html
I had corrupted screen, but using Rage 3D tweak, I have been able to reduce the Z-Compression to "low" which removed some of the artifact. Highering the AGP voltage in the BIOS removed the chessboard/checkerboard effect. Now it is working flawlessly.
I know the specific R9500 card with L shaped memory (=256bit) are hard to find, but on eBay, some are still available so check this out!
<font color=red>The good Smoked Meat Maple Leaf Extra-Fat!