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Techie uses voltage glitching hack to turn $2,500 Nvidia 8GB cryptomining GPU into a full-fat $20,000 A100 with 80GB of VRAM

Tom's Hardware · US · Hardware · 11/12/2026, 5:30:00 AM

A techie turned a $2,500 CMP-170HX 8GB mining card into a full-fat $20,000 A100 80GB by carefully blowing onboard fuses to unlock entire VRAM and shader modules.

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