Before you get too excited about the CMP 170HX, the prices had already skyrocketed and that card doesn't a cooler on it and is designed for a server cooler that sounds like a jet engine. Also most of the 80GB vram unlocks have bad RAM and that is the reason they were locked in the first place, otherwise they would have became A100s.
Anyways, that's what I tell myself as I taste my bowl of sour grapes.
(which is the more likely scenario because they can make much more money on enterprise/datacenter products, see DRAM)
Hard to believe $1k was a deal a few months ago (and $200 before then).
Anyways, that's what I tell myself as I taste my bowl of sour grapes.