Hello I am a newbie nVidea CMP 170HX - not sure where to post - searched CMP 170HX - nothing found

[GerdB]

Hello I just joined Linux.org - thank you. Here is my question(s) I found that there is an nVidea card, s CMP 170HX which was what I will describe as a very expensive single use crypto mining card - no info on nVidea web site about it, and nothing on linux.org by search, I found a YouTube video describing it here

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but I have also found the price has really dropped in secondary markets and wondered what would it take to program and flash a vBIOS that could make it so general programs could run software FAST - it seems there can be no video output since the 'silicon fuses' have been blown and only PCI communication seems to be available - and Linux is used as OS.

Thank you for any insight and advice, or opinions and certainly advice is valued, basically what can 'unlock' its computational potential for programs?

 

[Brickwizard]

no info on nVidea web site about it

Welcome to the forums, if you understand tech spec's you will find them here

NVIDIA CMP 170HX

A thorough insight into technical specs and benchmarks of CMP 170HX.

technical.city

 

[GerdB]

Thank you very much - it seems that there is no 'output' from this card in the normal sense of a GPU, so CMP Crypto Mining Processor - seems to mean that nothing other than the specific crypto code can be done on it, it appears - this is why I wanted to understand what it would take to use it in a GPU sense not CMP use.

but now that I have looked more into tech specs - the GeForce RTX 4090 card at a very modest price far outpaces it and is Direct X 12 super compatible - superior price and performance vs trying to 'upgrade' CMP 170HX to do this.

 

[Brickwizard]

It has been designed for one job and one job only, it doesn't have the codecs used in everyday computing graphics, just mining. You would probably do better looking for a second hand [or if cash is available the latest Vega card ],https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon-RX-Vega-64