Soon after the arrival of the 9500 it was discovered that via a hard/soft mod that it was possible to open up 'unused' text pipelines to basically give you a 9700 with 8x pipes.
According to the news on the [H]ard front page, the x800 Pro has 12x pipes and the XT has the 16. So do you think that ATI has learned from their 'mistakes' and worked on a way of securing the other pipes? Or do you think it will be moddable, making it a real hot enthusiast card. So will this be possible on this generation of cards, or is it too early to tell?
This of course is all assuming that the 2 cards are built on virtually the same platform, one utilizing all the pipelines and different ram, and the other one being limited from it's full potential? Or hell, maybe in it's original incarnation, it was only 12x but after seeing the nVidia prospects ATI decided to at the last minute bump both cards to the 16x lines (as many rumors suggested).
According to the news on the [H]ard front page, the x800 Pro has 12x pipes and the XT has the 16. So do you think that ATI has learned from their 'mistakes' and worked on a way of securing the other pipes? Or do you think it will be moddable, making it a real hot enthusiast card. So will this be possible on this generation of cards, or is it too early to tell?
This of course is all assuming that the 2 cards are built on virtually the same platform, one utilizing all the pipelines and different ram, and the other one being limited from it's full potential? Or hell, maybe in it's original incarnation, it was only 12x but after seeing the nVidia prospects ATI decided to at the last minute bump both cards to the 16x lines (as many rumors suggested).