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Need to remove PCIe Gen Limitation on P104-100 and P106-100

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Heyyyy!!!

Anyone here know how PCIe limitations were implemented by nVidia on Mining Cards such as the P106-100 or P104-100? Are the limitations at firmware level or at the hardware?
Is there a way to remove those limitations and make those cards able to run high bandwith tasks?
Hope anyone here knows more about this.. I couldn't really find anything on Google except that there's a bunch of tools such as NiBiTor, Pascal TDP Tweaker and nvidia settings, hence smi and other tools included in the toolbox. Has anyone already attempted to do something like that... modifying the BIOS so the card can communicate via a newer PCIe standard?
 
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The lanes are physically destroyed. There's realistically zero things you can do about it. Can only suggest buying a proper x16 GPU. Normal 1070s go for a Franklin on 2nd hand, not a heavy hit on your wallet.
 
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No,It is the limitations at the hardware .you only can use pcie 1.1x16 Because p106-100's GP106 only have pcie 1.1x16.p106 is Graphics Processor different to the GTX1060
 

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aentaro said:
Heyyyy!!!

Anyone here know how PCIe limitations were implemented by nVidia on Mining Cards such as the P106-100 or P104-100? Are the limitations at firmware level or at the hardware?
Is there a way to remove those limitations and make those cards able to run high bandwith tasks?
Hope anyone here knows more about this.. I couldn't really find anything on Google except that there's a bunch of tools such as NiBiTor, Pascal TDP Tweaker and nvidia settings, hence smi and other tools included in the toolbox. Has anyone already attempted to do something like that... modifying the BIOS so the card can communicate via a newer PCIe standard?
Click to expand...
You might need to consider upgrading to to a rx 6700xt or equivalent
 
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Dang... thanks guys! I didn't expect anyone to respond me. Maybe I was to enthusiastic about giving the card a new purpose. But I think you didn't get my point. I have 16 lanes. The card runs @ 16x 1.1... the thing is the bus speed, or Gen or however that's called. Is there no way to fool the card into running at that mode, is that phisically destroyed on the PCB or chip or what? I get that there might be some of those cards that actually have the phisical line to the pci slot cut, however that doesn't seem to be the case with my Gigabyte P104-100s (Running at 4x 1.1 cause they only have 4 caps instead of 12) and my P106-100 (16x 1.1 has all caps installed)
Please ignore my ignorance, I'm not a GPU engineer but I'm curious about so many things..
 
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