Hack a Radeon 9500 to a 9700

This is a bit sketchy, and the article is in Russian (but Babelfish does an ok translation).

Basically with some solder work and the moving of one resistor you can transform your 9500 into a 9700. Then you're supposed to flash your bios to a 9700 bios to unlock the core/mem clocks.

It is evident on the photo that one of the resistors, arranged/located on the base layer of chip RADEON 9500, is located in other position.We explained under close examination of the chips of entire rule that this resistor was arranged/located precisely so (2-3) only on the chips RADEON 9500, which have 4 working piksel'nykh conveyors.On all remaining chips, which have 8 piksel'nykh conveyors, it stands differently (1-2).Thus, we act - we resolder resistor to another position (1-2).If suddenly you it lose, that nemudreno - painfully already it small,it is possible to establish/install another - the resistance of these resistors is equal to 6,8 k :

Check this thing out here (Russian).

that is so wicked!!!

Here is an english version hehe http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1041719082

probably translated using babelfish
lol

this finding is truely amazing
but i want to see if anyone has really done this and works well other than the article writers

someone give me their card, I will hack it >

Soldering something that little requires a very steady hand, like extremely steady, it's really easy to screw up if you don't know what you're doing.

yeah I know

how do you take off the bridge that is on there already? is it solder that is on the chip originaly or something permanent that you have to cut it off?

the tiny thing is soldered on...