CMP170hx now fully unlockabke and more, full 120 SMs —> Techie uses voltage glitching hack to turn $2,500 Nvidia 8GB cryptomining GPU into a full-fat $20,000 A100 with 80GB of VRAM — hack carefully blows onboard fuses to unlock entire VRAM and shader modules
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Published by r/LocalLLaMA (T2 source). The original is at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1xuijih/cmp170hx_now_fully_unlockabke_and_more_full_120/.
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SummaryA hardware modification uses voltage glitching and onboard fuse damage to unlock all 120 streaming multiprocessors and 80GB of VRAM in an Nvidia CMP170Hx mining GPU, enabling use comparable to an A100.
Why it mattersDemonstrates a potentially repeatable route to repurposing lower-cost accelerator hardware for larger AI workloads, though the procedure is destructive and specialized.
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