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Softmodding my 9500

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Garzilla04

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I have a stock 9500 pro, and I was wondering...do I need a certain program to softmod it. I heard something about having to install new drivers or something. Can someone provide some links to anything...? If so thanks...
 
If im not mistaken theres not much you can do to a pro, it was the non pro that was the bomb. I to have a pro so if anyone else has info lets see it.

found this on a site
Okay, once again:

Plain old 9500 128M on a red board with L shaped memory = GOOD

9500 128 on a black board = BAD

9500 128 on either color with memory in straight line across top = BAD

9500 64M = BAD

9500 Pro = BAD

If you have a red PCB 9500 128M with L shaped memory the 128bit bus can be opened up to 256 with a soft mod (driver hack). If you own certain brands you will have to use a hacked bios to overclock, but this will not affect your ability to open up the 4 other pipes with a drive hack. (I bought a Power Color Evil Commando and didn't have to change the bios, it would OC right out of the box, Sapphire's howerever require it).

THERE IS NO WAY TO GET A 256bit bus on a 9500Pro. Period. IT CAN'T be done. It is physically different - no warp bios driver hack or lucky rabbit's foot can change that.

If you have the right board, according to what some site's have said, you can expect to get to 9700 levels about 60% of the tim. I've had three of the "right" kind of 9500s and only one has worked flawlessly. The other two had "artifacts" when the 4 closed pipes were unlocked(little black squares that band across the screen, making it useless to play on).

As for speed. If everything works and you have the right card, you can expect 9700 speed. Not 9700 Pro. The memory on the 9500 is slower and won't overclock to 9700 Pro speeds well (some have been able to, be they are the exception not the rule).

I hope this has cleared things up a little.
 
you can softmod to fire gl, but that is a whole nother story. Your 9500 pro does not have any softmod's, it is just physicly impossible to get a 256 bit bus and it already has a full 8 pipes
 
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