Voltage Glitching Turns Mining Card into A100 Beast
💡 Why it matters
This hack could democratize high-end AI compute by allowing hobbyists to access A100-class performance for a fraction of the cost, challenging Nvidia's pricing and binning strategy.
A techie used voltage glitching to blow onboard fuses on an Nvidia CMP-170HX 8GB mining card, unlocking its full 80GB VRAM and shader modules to effectively turn it into a $20,000 A100-class GPU.
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Hacker News
Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card
1d ago
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tomshardware.com
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
17h ago
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mezha.net
Voltage glitching unlocks up to 80GB of VRAM on Nvidia CMP-170HX mining cards
17h ago
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