News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card.

Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by rkagerer on Thursday November 12, 2026 @05:16AM (#50465280)
If someone wants to build a local AI GPU farm today, should they go out and buy a bunch of these? Or has the price already gone up too much to make it a good deal and is the "yield" you'd get (from things like bad segments of RAM, unreliability of the unlocks, SM lottery, etc.) too inconsistent?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by rootsudo on Thursday November 12, 2026 @05:31AM (#50465369)
Too late to the game, go look at eBay and such,
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by nomorewords on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:09AM (#50465595)
A month or two back I saw available 5090s at 5k euro and thought that is robbery. Now there aren't any and third party sellers (none of the big chains have them) list at 10k plus
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by ketzu on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:11AM (#50466612)
This made me check how much the 800€ AMD card I got last year is now: A) barely available, b) 2000€+

Wow.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by kmike84 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:56AM (#50465896)
The "yield" is good enough, and the price reflects it. The unlock to 64Gb + PCIe Gen2 was there for months, this one is just a step further.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining ... by Roark66 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:16AM (#50468760)
If you have the money buy today, because tomorrow it will cost more. The inflation is ridiculous.

6 months ago I looked at used rtx3090s. I marvelled they cost a little over what I paid over a year ago. I ordered 2 more for $900 if I remember correctly.

3 months ago the cheapest used one was $1300, a month ago you could get it for $1500 now it is $1650.

I thought the prices would drop once they reach the peak. But the peak seems to be far away.

A 5090 is only twice faster in typical inference, but costs $10k now. Insanity.

[ Parent | on HN ]