pipeline
Ok, video card lesson for you 
The only cards where you can unlock pipelines are ones that are cut down based on a higher card design. e.g. the 7800GT was a cut down 7800GTX.
This had 12 instead of 16 pipelines, but even on this card nvidia had physically disabled the last quad of pipelines by laser cutting it shut, so it couldnt be accessed by the card (To get this quad to work some way of un-cutting this would have to be discovered).
But with a 7600GS, even though it is based on the better 7600GT, they both have the same amount of pixel pipelines (12 pipelines). So there is no way to unlock any additional performance that way.
If your 7600GS has empty spaces where RAM should be soldered on, and if you are good enough, you might be able to get hold of some of the vRAM needed and solder them in. I don't know for certain that this would actually work though, but I suspect it would. Provided that you can actually do all that though, the added vRAM will not give you that much advantage in performance wise, unless you are gaming at high resolutions (And in that case I would recommend buying a better card anyway).
So bottom line is, to get more performance from you card you can buy a new one, or overclock this one.
Dan
The only cards where you can unlock pipelines are ones that are cut down based on a higher card design. e.g. the 7800GT was a cut down 7800GTX.
This had 12 instead of 16 pipelines, but even on this card nvidia had physically disabled the last quad of pipelines by laser cutting it shut, so it couldnt be accessed by the card (To get this quad to work some way of un-cutting this would have to be discovered).
But with a 7600GS, even though it is based on the better 7600GT, they both have the same amount of pixel pipelines (12 pipelines). So there is no way to unlock any additional performance that way.
If your 7600GS has empty spaces where RAM should be soldered on, and if you are good enough, you might be able to get hold of some of the vRAM needed and solder them in. I don't know for certain that this would actually work though, but I suspect it would. Provided that you can actually do all that though, the added vRAM will not give you that much advantage in performance wise, unless you are gaming at high resolutions (And in that case I would recommend buying a better card anyway).
So bottom line is, to get more performance from you card you can buy a new one, or overclock this one.
Dan
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Here's a link to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_pipeline
There might even be that article in your native language if you're lucky (might be easier to understand).
Post back if you need clarification on that.
And as to who's is better, it all depends on how the pipelines have been made, say for example each one of nVidia's pipelines might be slighty better than ATI's design. ANd other contributing factors, like the clock speed of memory, core clock speed, and lots of other things on the card.
At one point in graphic card history (lol, I sound old) you could compare the number of pipelines in graphics cards to see which one was better. But now as there are so many differences between cards that the only way to get an accurate representation of what the cards are capable of, and which one is better, is to read real life benchmarks (like LR does).
Dan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_pipeline
There might even be that article in your native language if you're lucky (might be easier to understand).
Post back if you need clarification on that.
And as to who's is better, it all depends on how the pipelines have been made, say for example each one of nVidia's pipelines might be slighty better than ATI's design. ANd other contributing factors, like the clock speed of memory, core clock speed, and lots of other things on the card.
At one point in graphic card history (lol, I sound old) you could compare the number of pipelines in graphics cards to see which one was better. But now as there are so many differences between cards that the only way to get an accurate representation of what the cards are capable of, and which one is better, is to read real life benchmarks (like LR does).
Dan
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