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Phemo at Overclockers UK was the one who first figured it out and shared it with everyone:
I know the first thing you'll ask is how I did it. Well, I got a very sharp knife and scraped off my previous conductive paintwork, then I used the knife to scrape away at the two points - we are using the right points after all. I scraped them away until there was some bare copper exposed, bright copper instead of the usual dull, then re-did the paint job, booted Windows up and ran ATITool, she now apparently has 16 pipes
There's a picture of the contacts you need to connect over at the Overclockers UK link above, or I got it hosted over at Elite Bastards too.

El_Coyote Senior Member Posts: 555 Joined: 2002-12-18

#54124 Posted on: 05/28/2004 08:53 AM there! Thats a good wanderer ! ;-P

hinkle Unregistered

#54126 Posted on: 05/28/2004 10:20 AM Didn't ATI state a month ago that this MOD was impossible! I guess, they just have been lying again to their customers. Time to get used to it.

Esthero Unregistered

#54131 Posted on: 05/28/2004 11:00 AM 'I guess, they just have been lying again to their customers. Time to get used to it.' Says the NVIDIA employee or naive customer...

MagamiAKO Unregistered

#54132 Posted on: 05/28/2004 12:08 PM There is one guy that confirms he can't do it on his card, even citing that he's redone the points. Either of the following is true: A) The 3 confirmations are all the same person OR are ATI employees filling the forums with crap that isn't true, and eventually going to say "Well it was only on a certain batch!" B) The guy attempting it isn't doing the right points. Don't get me wrong, user error can be a big issue. However, this looks like a relatively easy mod so I can't see how this guy could go wrong. We will see.

Phemo Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2003-06-05

#54133 Posted on: 05/28/2004 12:53 PM A nice theory However, I assure you I'm neither an ATI employee, nor am I pretending to be anyone else. The mod is easy, but it's just getting the guts to scrape away at those points relatively tough without wanting to trash an expensive card. It took me 2 attempts before it got working. Hopefully we'll have more reports later

digitalwanderer Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22

#54137 Posted on: 05/28/2004 02:05 PM Do you have any idea how much trouble I'm gonna get in with me wife for going out and buying an X800 pro behind her back?!?!? ;) Thank you and all the gang over at OCers UK, that was a most impressive thread last night where you all figured it out.

digitalwanderer Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22

#54138 Posted on: 05/28/2004 02:07 PM ...there's been a few ATi employees who were teasing me about it and they've been telling me for months that it's probably possibly but they tried to make it harder this time. I still don't think this is that bad a thing for ATi, how many average users would even dream of attempting this? For geeks like me and thee it's a no-brainer, but most people I know break into a cold sweat when I start talking about changing drivers....a hardware mod on a $400 bit-o-kit I'm pretty sure would be the height of insanity.

digitalwanderer Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: 2004-02-22

#54139 Posted on: 05/28/2004 02:08 PM Yayzers! The formatting was worth it! Thanks for deleting me "extended text"...I almost thought you'd leave it in as a bit-o-a-spanking. :lol: Keekles & roofles, I'm giddy about this mod being discovered!

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