ATI Radeon To ATI FireGL Mod Guide

@ 2004/06/18
Want a FireGL workstation card but can’t afford to pay ATI’s exhorbitant prices? Well, why don’t you grab a Radeon desktop card and mod it into a FireGL card? Yes, you can easily mod a Radeon into the FireGL with just a simple BIOS flash. Our guide will go through all the possible FireGL mods for the Radeon 9500, 9700 and 9800 series of cards and teach you just how to mod your Radeon into a FireGL

Comment from jmke @ 2004/06/19
nope, only for OpenGL applications it is worth it
Comment from kristos @ 2004/06/19
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Originally posted by jmke
Want a FireGL workstation card but can’t afford to pay ATI’s exhorbitant prices? Well, why don’t you grab a Radeon desktop card and mod it into a FireGL card? Yes, you can easily mod a Radeon into the FireGL with just a simple BIOS flash. Our guide will go through all the possible FireGL mods for the Radeon 9500, 9700 and 9800 series of cards and teach you just how to mod your Radeon into a FireGL

http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle....tno=105&pgno=0
I didn't read the article but I have a question.

Is this in terms of gaming worth it? I remeber someone (might even have been you ) saying that FireGL cards don't perform as good in games as the "normal" cards.