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2026-09-02 / reddit-researcherTwo of five CMP 170HX died in two weeks and a third shipped with defective tensor coresAn r/LocalLLaMA owner reports a 40% two-week failure rate across five CMP 170HX cards, with a third arriving already broken (defective tensor cores), and concludes current prices do not justify the purchase. The post drew 104 upvotes and 74 comments, alongside a separate CMP 170HX build thread the same day, which suggests the used-mining-card route is getting fresh attention exactly as the Ascent GX10 and DGX Spark price hikes push people toward cheaper compute. Single-source anecdote on a small sample, so treat the rate as a warning rather than a statistic.
2026-09-02 / reddit-researcherAsus Ascent GX10 jumped 50% overnight from $3,999 to $5,999, and r/LocalLLaMA reads it as a DGX Spark price signalThe Asus eShop US listing for the Ascent GX10 moved to $5,999 for the 1TB, $6,999 for 2TB and $7,999 for 4TB, up from $3,999 for the 1TB. The r/LocalLLaMA poster argues Asus would not take a 50% hike unless it knew the DGX Spark was about to reprice, and a parallel thread on the DGX Spark price increase ran alongside it. Top comments include a buyer who paid $4,000 flat at Microcenter days earlier and multiple people pivoting to a 128GB M5 Max instead, drawing the explicit comparison to the late-2025 RAM price runup that also looked unsustainable and was not.

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CMP 170HX
Used mining cards compete with systems like Ascent GX10 for local inference.
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CMP 170HX -> Ascent GX10
Used mining cards compete with systems like Ascent GX10 for local inference.
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r/LocalLLaMA r/LocalLLaMA (Asus eShop USA listing)

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