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CMP news
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.
CMP 170HX prices from July to November 2026, as owners reported them
Owner reports put the 8 GB CMP 170HX near 3,000 USD by late October 2026, up from 100 to 300 USD as a mining card before the unlock.
cmp.wiki opened October 30 as the community reference for CMP 170HX
cmp.wiki opened on October 30, 2026 with recipes, platforms, unlock pages and a testing board, and every fact credited to the Discord member who found it.
CMP 170HX PCIe x16 capacitor mod and related hardware fixes
Soldering 24 missing 220 nF capacitors takes the CMP 170HX link from x4 to x16; taping pin B30 clears the HW Power Brake on boards that assert it.
CMP 170HX failure rates and longevity: what owner reports show
Owner counts of bad CMP 170HX cards run from 0% to 50%, all self-reported and small, so the wiki marks them Contested and says to memtest every card.
CMP 90HX unlock hub: what is known and how it differs from CMP 170HX
The CMP 90HX is a GA102 card with no hidden memory; separate projects unlock its compute, graphics, power limit and PCIe link, not cmpunlocker.
On the wiki
- CMP unlocks: the map, by card
- CMP benchmarks: every measurement
- Setup matrix: what runs on your cards
- Will it fit: memory calculator
- Card check: paste lspci, nvidia-smi and dmesg
- Ask the wiki
- Prices, every reported point
- Benchmark protocol and reporter script
- Price history and market
- Rumours and claims to verify
- Driver unlock (cmpunlocker)
- All recipes
- Press and coverage
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