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

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The newest dated items on cmp.wiki, from October 30 to November 2, 2026, cover a 10 GB NVLink rework, an unlock that would no longer patch the driver, new recipe releases and prices that have not come down. Each item gives its wiki status: Proven means reproduced by a second person or by the lab on its own hardware, Reported means one person's result, and Warning marks something that damaged hardware or lost data.

Unlocks and drivers

  • gpu-unlock 3.0 announced (Reported): @zagitta ported most of cmpunlocker to the gpu-unlock tool, which runs before the NVIDIA driver loads, so the driver no longer has to be patched (October 31, 2026). On November 1, 2026 a card survived suspend and resume at Gen2 x4 with 65536 MiB; ECC is not ported, 10 GB testers are wanted and nothing is released yet. See Unlock history.
  • NVLink on the 10 GB card (Reported): @ghostinthedatacenter_87281 wrote on October 30, 2026 that the card is NVLink unlocked after a board rework, with bridges due on November 2. That day @voidgiraffe and @cuddylac997 said they plan their own rework, and no link has trained yet. See NVLink.
  • Driver 615.78.08 (Warning): on Proxmox kernel 7.0.14-26-pve, a failed start corrupted host memory through the unlock retry path, per @galygious (October 30, 2026). Stay on 615.71.09; see Driver and unlock failures.

Recipes and firmware

  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on four 8 GB cards (Reported): release 1.0.1 (November 1, 2026) lists 297 tok/s for one user on code and 3,776 tok/s cold prefill, per @voidgiraffe, and has three Partly reproduced confirmations. Release 1.0.2 (November 2) lets hosts without peer access start; see the recipe.
  • Mistral Large 4 lab trial (Reported): 18.7 tok/s decode on eight 8 GB cards with llama.cpp, which works but is far too slow for chat at long contexts, per @darkmaniac7 (lab notes, November 1, 2026); see the recipe.
  • 300 W VBIOS (Proven): the flash procedure for 8 GB cards went up on October 31, 2026, with eight cards flashed clean; see Flashing the 300 W VBIOS.

P2P and hardware

  • P2P on AM5 (Reported): @gnasherrr reported the Morrowmake P2P fork working "out of the box" on an AM5 board at x8/x8 (November 1, 2026), without a content check; see P2P.
  • Capacitor mod (Reported): @sojun80 posted a finished x16 mod with a screenshot (November 1, 2026); see PCIe x16 capacitor mod.

Prices

  • No drop as of November 2, 2026 (Reported): a repeat supplier offered @lia_oc more 8 GB cards at 3,350 USD each, and @zingy90210 saw nothing lower; see Price history and market.

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