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The CMP news feed: unlock releases, driver warnings, prices, hardware mods and new proven recipes for the NVIDIA CMP 170HX, dated as they happened. Every item links to the wiki page and the person who found it.

  1. CMP 170HX news, November 6 to 9, 2026: a new DeepSeek engine, ECC on 10 GB cards, VM reports

    The newest CMP 170HX items: the Anemone engine for four cards, an ECC boot problem on some 10 GB cards, new prices and two virtual machine reports.

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  2. Full GLM-5.3 (753B) on eight CMP 170HX plus two Blackwells: recipe and repo published

    A published recipe serves the full GLM-5.3 with a 524k context on eight CMP 170HX plus two RTX PRO 6000 Blackwells, building on cebeuq's eight-card recipe.

    GLM 5.3multi-noderecipes

  3. CMP 170HX 8 GB card floorsweep: gated, not dead, and fuse-locked at 64 GB

    A read of seven 8 GB CMP 170HX cards finds about 80 GB physically latent but fuse-locked: 64 GB and 74 SMs stay the ceiling, and 96 GB is not supported.

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  4. CMP 170HX news, November 3 to 5, 2026: ECC without a patched driver, P2P behind switches

    The newest CMP 170HX items: ECC shown on an 8 GB card without a patched driver, P2P behind PCIe switches, two hardware warnings and 3,000 USD cards.

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  5. vGPU for the CMP 170HX is ready for testing, with a new cmptools repo

    The cmpunlocker maintainer asks for vGPU testers: the driver side is on the vGPU-and-others branch and a new cmptools repo manages the vGPU settings.

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  6. CMP 170HX news, week of November 3, 2026: NVLink, P2P, prices

    The newest CMP 170HX items: a 10 GB NVLink rework, gpu-unlock 3.0 announced, new DeepSeek and Mistral runs, and 8 GB cards still offered at 3,350 USD.

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  7. CMP 170HX driver warning: nvidia-open 615.78.08 breaks cmpunlocker

    On nvidia-open 615.78.08 the CMP 170HX unlock installs cleanly but cards drop out of nvidia-smi; owners report 615.71.09 as the version that works.

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  8. CMP 170HX 300 W VBIOS flash procedure published for the 8 GB card

    A tested procedure flashes the factory 300 W VBIOS onto 8 GB CMP 170HX cards, opening the undervolt range and raising the HBM clock to 1728 MHz.

    8 GB cardundervoltingVBIOS

  9. cmpunlocker v0.5 for CMP 170HX: what it unlocks and what it does not

    cmpunlocker v0.5 brings the 8 GB card to 64 GB and the 10 GB card to 40 GB, adds 4 SMs and ECC, and still leaves Gen3, NVLink and 80 GB locked.

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  10. Fastest proven CMP 170HX recipes: GLM 5.3 Flash leads at 442 tok/s

    Nine CMP 170HX recipes are Proven; GLM 5.3 Flash on four 8 GB cards leads at 442.1 tok/s, with seven owners reproducing it.

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  11. CMP 170HX 10 GB memory: 40 GB Proven, 48 GB Reported, 80 GB Contested

    The 10 GB CMP 170HX unlocks to 40 GB, about one card in five reaches 48 GB, and 80 or 96 GB has not been made usable as of late October 2026.

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  12. CMP 170HX P2P and multi-card servers: what is proven so far

    BAR1 P2P between CMP 170HX cards is Proven on one root or switch, mailbox P2P is Proven since November 6, 2026 (updated), and a dual-socket server passed 504 of 504 checks.

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