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2/5 of my CMP 170HX have died after 2 weeks and the 3rd came with defective tensor cores. Current prices DO NOT justify the risk you are taking

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One GPU drops off immediately when vllm is started and the other throws CUDA errors on start

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  1. 2026-09-02 02:00 · r/LocalLLaMA
    2/5 of my CMP 170HX have died after 2 weeks and the 3rd came with defective tensor cores. Current prices DO NOT justify the risk you are taking

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