The x800 Pro to x800XT hardmod has been cracked!
 

For all you video card modders out there.... get the tissue paper and hand lotion ready. The mod we have all been eagerly awaiting has finally arrived.....


http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthre...0&pagenumber=1

damn.....i would be scared as f**k to mod my card when i get it.

I dont know about u guys...but some of the insturctions are a bit broad........maybe when someone makes a step by step instructions with screenshots...then maybe ill consider doing it

That sounds about as dangerous as unlocking a Palomino core Athlon XP. XActo Knife + scotch tape = not gettin fuckin near any of my PC hardware. Too risky if ya ask me! I'll all about some BIOS flashing (I hear the 5900-to-5950 Ultra works well...I know two people that flashed their 9500 Pros to 9700 Pros rather easily as well), but when ya have to physically fuck with the hardware, I basically draw the line. :)

-Lasereth

Yes bios flashing is quite easy, I did it to my 9800 non-pro to turn it into a Pro. The whole scraping with an exacto knife is risky though. I personally used an exacto knife to pop off the shim of my 9800, but that's much different from actually scraping away at the card.

That being said, the performance gain from 12 pipelines to 16 is substantial. I don't see myself upgrading to a new video card anytime soon, but if for some reason I did buy an x800 Pro, I would probably try the mod.

see, if someone had the right equipment and actually knew what he was doing, they could make quite a lot of cash selling the mod cards. Maybe $50 profit a card

But seeing how there seems to be none floating around in the market....im guessing modding the card right now is very risky and unstable

Well, if you actually read what the guy said... you don't necessarily have to scrape away. For some reason he did it that way, but to achieve the same effect, you could just solder a small piece of copper wire between the two points he mentioned.

All he was doing was removing a physical barrier between the two, so why do it that way? Why not just go around it?

You might have to remove some of the insulation from the two points as well, but that's not quite the same as "scraping away at your card." Just a thought.

Ha ha, I'd scrape away at my card before taking a soldering iron to it, and that's after taking two levels of Electronics in High School! I just can't see physically fucking with a videocard that costs $400-$500.

-Lasereth

I wouldn't have the balls to try it on a $400 card. Not mine at least.

I'll think i'll just stick to 12 piplines thank you very much. :D

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Wuss.

Heh, I'm just kidding. I totally agree with you.


And Lasereth, all I can say is :p. I'm comfortable enough with a soldering iron that I don't see much harm doing it that way, but if you're not, I can see the other side as well. I was just saying that there IS another way to do it.

well, there is no sodering iron needed for this. You can buy special pens to connect the sections

but...I dont have the balls to do this either ... xD

well, im still getting the saphire X800 pro........juuust in case i feel like gambling with a $450 piece of equipment

i'm seeing a LOT of failures even after multiple attempts by other "skilled" users.. so i dont know how safe or reliable this is...

I'm not touching anything of mine that costs more than 300 bucks.. then again i am a pussy shit wuss :D

Where are you getting that from?

It depends on what is involved. I probably wouldnt do it though, not on something that expensive. I flashed my 8500 bios from the crippled to the full version way back in the day, and Id probably flash a BIOS again, but even that had me about to shit a brick while it was going...

I was reading the rage3d boards from the link that was posted up above.. and a lot of people were having problems with it.. hehe.. I havent actually seen anyone i know do the mod and fail (or even succeed... in fact.. or even try it), just what i've seen in the online community..