[alexgaribay]

> The cool kids had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ and a Radeon 9600. The rich kids had a 9800.

I still remember trying to flash my 9600 bios to a 9800 because some were able to that. Unfortunately I didn’t have one of the lucky models that could do so.

[gattilorenz]

Wait, why would you want to do that? I still have my 9800 :)

[sgtnoodle]

I think they were trying to modify their 9600 to think it was a 9800.

[gattilorenz]

Hah, that explains it, thanks. I remember of people flashing the Radeons to get them to work on Mac, but I didn’t know this detail.

[gattilorenz]

Hah, that explains it, thanks. I remember of people flashing the Radeons to get them to work on Mac, but I didn’t know this one.

[alexgaribay]

From what I remember, some 9600s had the same hardware as a 9800 but had features/processors disabled from the card BIOS. Those could be unlocked with the right BIOS.