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We didn’t recommend using the Chinese driver in our mining GPU video, but now, we’ll show you how to make Nvidia’s drivers work for yourself – And how to go deeper. Buy a P106 (mining "GTX 1060") on Taobao: https://lmg.gg/8KV9W Buy a real GTX 1060: On Amazon: http://geni.us/rveAUH On Newegg: https://lmg.gg/8KV6B Download link for GeForce driver 416.34: https://lmg.gg/8KV93 Download link for HxD: https://lmg.gg/8KV9m Download link for DifferentSLIAuto: https://lmg.gg/8KV9P Download link for 7-Zip: https://lmg.gg/8KV9p TechPowerUp Forum Thread: https://lmg.gg/8KV91 How to mod the P106 driver Make sure Secure Boot is disabled and Windows is in testsigning mode Check your motherboard manual for information on how to disable Secure Boot Testsigning can be enabled by opening up a Command Prompt or PowerShell as administrator, then typing: bcdedit /set {current} testsigning on bcdedit /set {current} nointegritychecks on This can be done for a single boot by going to Start -> Power -> Restart and holding shift while clicking Restart, then choosing Troubleshoot, then Advanced Options, then Startup Settings - Once you get to the menu, choose to disable driver signature enforcement. After restarting, you’ll know it worked if some text is displayed in the lower right corner of your desktop Download and extract the GeForce driver using 7-Zip In the extracted folder, go to the Display.Driver folder and open nv_dispi.infusing Notepad++ Search for lines containing 1B87 (P104-100), 1BC7, (P104-101) 1C07(P106-100), and 1C09 (P106-090) Change each line's Section number to match the 1C06 (GTX 1060) line - On 416.34, that means from Section110 to Section108 On the third set of lines, the Section numbers will be different; Again change it to match the 1C06 (GTX 1060) line - On 416.34, that's Section109 to Section107 Save the file Install the driver as normal – Windows will complain that it’s unsigned; Click allow. Right-click the desktop, go to Display Settings, then Graphics Settings From here, you can force any game to use the P106 to render while your integrated GPU is used for display output. How to perform the SLI mod Make sure Secure Boot is disabled and Windows is in testsigning mode Check your motherboard manual for information on how to disable Secure Boot Testsigning can be enabled by opening up a Command Prompt or PowerShell as administrator, then typing: bcdedit /set {current} testsigning on bcdedit /set {current} nointegritychecks on This can be done for a single boot by going to Start -> Power -> Restart and holding shift while clicking Restart After restarting, you’ll know it worked if some text is displayed in the lower right corner of your desktop Install both graphics cards you wish to attempt SLI with The first three characters of the PCI device ID MUST match to enable SLI To find out what the device ID is, right-click the start button and click Device Manager In the Display adaptors list double-click the card you want to check. Under the Details tab, click the drop-down and then click Hardware IDs. It will look like this: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1F07&SUBSYS_86701043&REV_A1 VEN_10DE means Nvidia, while DEV_1F07 is the device ID – In this example, an RTX 2070. So in order to run SLI, the other card’s device ID will have to also start with DEV_1F0 Download and install the GeForce driver as usual Download and extract the DifferentSLIAuto package Go to C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository and sort by date Go into the newest folder beginning with nv_dispi.inf Copy the nvlddmkm.sys file to the DifferentSLIAuto folder Open the install.cmd file in the DifferentSLIAuto folder in Notepad++ Replace the three mentions of nv_dispi.inf in install.cmd with the folder name we got the nvlddmkm.sys file Open the nvlddmkm.sys we copied in a hex editor (HxD) In HxD, go to Search, then Find, then click the Hex Values tab Search for 79050fba6b240e Position the cursor at the start of these values Replace with C7432400000000 (no need to delete first, just type over it) Save the file Reboot into Safe Mode with Networking Click Start, then Power, then hold shift while clicking Reboot In the menu that comes up, click Troubleshoot, then Advanced Options, then Startup Settings (on some PCs, this may be behind a “show more options” arrow) - Once the PC reboots, press 5 on the screen that appears. Run install.cmd in the DifferentSLIAuto folder as administrator Reboot into normal mode Enable SLI (hopefully)

hey guys i recently got an asus p106-100. i was super excited because that is literally my first ever gpu. i saw linus and many other YouTubers and members of this and other communities make the gpu work. i followed the video and tutorial on the forum here and it did not work i tried it so many times i literally had to reinstall windows like 3 times... also i tried to follow dartraiden's tutorial on github and that also failed. i kept getting an error 43 in device manager. and i did trie to use the error 43 correction thing... it also failed i have an asus p106-100 an intel i7-4770 16gb ddr3 ram in a pre built lenovo thinkcenter please help me i have spent 50$ on this thing which is like 500 in my currency. a crap load of money... thank you guys

I wanted to use gexp but gexp thought my specs were too low because I was using a p106-100 and not a gtx1060. is there a way around it?

Yo guys Someone from china(yeah thats my country) has used something like deceptive software to go around NVIDIA`s DirectX Block on P106, which Im sure you guys know, is specific designed for mining. I got his tutorial file attached if anyone is interested, since its chinese, I did my best to translate it. It seems after cracking its DX block ,this thing`s performance can be nearly identical as a GTX1060 6G Im still uploading that cracked driver to my google drive, once its done I`ll post link here BTW, how do I let Linus know about this? Maybe LTT can do a video about this P106.docx

I'm having problems using p106 with display port on the motherboard. BIOS considers P106 as display 1 and does not want it to appear on IGPU which reads as display 2. There is no problem with windows display, only BIOS. I have set the default display to display 2 but it has no effect on the BIOS. Previously I used the GT-710 as display port to set the BIOS to keep IGPU active even when using EGPU. Is there a way to make BIOS still appear on IGPU even though EGPU is installed? My motherboard is ECS H81H3-M4 with Intel I3-4130

Recently I bought a Nvidia p106-100 mining Gpu to run games on it. There were two Videos on LTT showing how to do it, and I wanted a fun little project while saving some money. And it actually worked! I installed the modified driver (416.34) and were able to play some games. However, not for long. Because for whatever reason, Windows likes to install the Nvidia Control Panel after some time and installs the driver 432.00. The P106 still shows up in the device manager, but playing on the card instead of the integrated Intel Graphics doesn't work anymore, as I'm not using the modified, old driver. The Card does not show up as a high performance GPU anymore. I tried almost everything. I disabled automatic driver updates, I disabled Windows updates, I tried to play around in the registry and I even deleted the Windows Store using Powershell, because it seemed to reinstall the Nvidia control Panel every time. But nothing fixed the issue and it's driving me crazy! Everything works fine until Windows decides that it has to install a newer driver version for me. Does somebody know how to stop Windows from doing that? I want to use the card for my second gaming pc which I want to use when friends come over. So deactivating Windows-Updates for example doesn't bother me that much. i5-4440 Nvidia p106-100 Windows 10 Pro

On linux got a 2nd p106, and both are in the system, however the driver sees only one. how do i sli them? i heard of the hack for a 1060-sli, figured its applicable but cannot find the details anywhere. some help please. also im using the drivers in this ppa. https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

I tried the command below and nothing happens. nvdis driver only sees my single p106 even tho the second is in the system. i want to sli like the 1060 sli hack. figured step one is making the driver see card number two. both cards are 6gb vram. only diffrence is one is passive cooled. i think changing the setting to make the card run at x8 may help, but no way in bios. nvidia-xconfig -sli=on -multigpu=on

I did a benchmark test at 1080p saw a youtube benchmark and the all ultra was 70-55 fps. im getting 60-45 fps. on linux running through steam. is this normal for a p106, or is something else wrong? i have 16 ram gigs, and an 8086k mostly stock. Is this a wine thing or is my gpu running slow?

The saga continues with my Gigabyte P106-100 6GB vid card. Got it running perfectly, with one newly discovered exception: performance throttling due to heat. I disassembled the card, cleaned, new thermal paste, checked the fans, etc but no change. Does anyone have any creative cooling ideas? I’d consider water cooling but don’t know if that exists for the P106. Or maybe GTX1060 cooling hardware will fit? Any advice or P106 throttling experience, please share. TIA

Hi Linus, Hope you doing great, We watched your hacked Nvidia driver video based on the P106 and ordered that. After arriving I just had the ivy bridge I5 3470 processor with Intel Motherboard to work with and tried all sorts of installation process which are Russian, American Also But Could not get this working and found out its not gonna work with IVY Bridge Processors. BUT WE EVENTUALLY STARTED PUBG and THIS IS ONLY GAME WHICH USES THE P106 WITH FULL POTENTIAL FOR SOME REASON DON't Know WHY Its working perfectly. EVEN if I remove the Intel HD GRAPhics And with the standalone P106 Display Driver It runs with full potential and Tried different methods hoping to get other games to be working but our luck is not with us. Since I'm Managed to check some windows debugging tools to check the game process using which REGistry Key to initiate the P106 Driver and Tweaked some Registry Keys. Still its not working. Could YOU PLEAse test this with IVY Bridge to test and FIGURE's out the solution for THIS . Its a humble request IF you can Help us and save our lives LOL. I Mean you really a true hero of Modern Technologies. Here is the link of the tool that I used to Check the Registry keys and process tree of the Game running https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ and download the Process Monitor which is called Procmon.exe and please Try to get this working on IVY bridge. I will really appreciate this. Best Regards, Man of the Year

With all the LTT videos on Chinese computer parts, I've decided to make a $600 semi-budget build (you could technically achieve the same performance under $500) using mostly parts from China, including the featured P106 and a modded Gigabyte z170x gaming 3 motherboard. Although it is supposed to be a budget build, I did buy some parts with future expansion in mind since I will be using it as a server. (maybe another p106? lol) The only components brought from China were the CPU, motherboard, and graphics card. The case being too heavy to ship, and I did not want my PSU to explode. The other components had relatively the same prices as in China. Specs: CPU: E2146G Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 3 RAM: Single G.Skill Aegis 8GB DDR4 2666 GPU: Gigabyte NVIDIA P106-100 Storage: Crucial mx500 512GB PSU: Corsiar CX550 CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 33 eSports ONE Case: Fractal Design Meshify C (not really budget but it looks really good ) E2146G and Z170X The e-2146g (https://ark.intel.com/products/134866/Intel-Xeon-E-2146G-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4-50-GHz-) is basically a new "E3" series processor which requires the new C246 chipset motherboard. The motherboard requirement, however, can be easily bypassed. By modding the bios and preventing contacts of a few pins, the e-2146g can be installed on any 1151 board. For instance, you could put it in a B150 motherboard and use DDR3. They also support "AMD only" DDR3 ram, which are basically ram chips from old-server-ram soldered onto new pcbs. These rams are surprisingly cheap at about 50% of regular ddr3 prices. The cheaper ones could go to about $15 for a single DDR3 8G 1600. Nevertheless, I went for a Z170X which requires normal DDR4 ram for better upgradability (which ended up costing 40 dollars more). The motherboard costed about $70. It was pre-modified to support all 6, 7, 8-gen and E21xx CPUs, thus costing $20 more than a non-modded z170x gaming 3. Meanwhile, the e2146g costed around $180. The specs are pretty much identical to the Intel page except that it runs at 3.4Ghz and turbos up to 4.3Ghz. P106 You guys probably have already seen it a million times so I will not say too much about it. The graphic card looks OK other than the dusts in the heatsink. Temperatures are alright with about 30 degrees Celsius on idle and 50-ish when gaming. The Build Benchmarks 3DMark Assassin's Creed: Origins on very high settings Cinebench

Drat! I bought a Gigabyte P106 6GB from Taobao to run in my desktop with an i5-3470. Unfortunately, it won’t work as a video card with this CPU as it’s a third gen chip. Heads up to anyone who wants to buy one of these, make sure you have 4th gen or higher. Oh well, it was worth a try. Only set me back a total of $138 Cdn to my door.

1. Thanks to "SkySway" from China (he is from China and provides the GPU driver that appears in the video). He came to Bilibili's LinusTechTips channel so that we could know his help. 2, Taobao's shopkeeper will provide GPU drive solution tutorial, if you have bought from Taobao,youcan communicate with he on Aliwangwang (阿里旺旺),a platform where you can communicate with sellers.BUT, only Chinese tutorial, if you want to give an attempt Maybe a Chinese friend who can master English well is a good choice for help. 3, P106 has good performance, but first, it has experienced the torture of mining, perhaps not far from death (based on your luck). Second, the P106 bandwidth is limited to the PCI-E 1.1 level（Thanks SupaKomputa for correcting.） with a high output delay of approximately 100ms. 4, if you do not have a budget and want to buy a GPU with good performance, based on the Chinese BBS test, the RX 470 is better than the P106 in terms of games. 5, Huaqiang North has produced a P106 graphics card with HDMI video output. You only need to add one hundred yuan ($15) to buy a graphics card with HDMI. But I am really interested in Linus's idea to modify P106. 6,I strongly recommend Linus to mosaic the name of the store. By the way, Taobao has a lot of interesting technology products that you can't think of. Anthony can take a moment to look at it. Such as laptop NIC interface / MINI PCI-E, EXPRESSCARD, NGFF (M.2) A / E button external graphics card adapter cable. I hope Linus has a chance to try it out. Apologize for the error caused by Google’s automatic translation.

Okay so have my first build all ready to go, p106 as a graphics card, getting ready to os this beast. i could see my bios just fine for a few boots. i had some issue and needed to get back into bios before i could install ubuntu on this os less pc, but now i can only get to the error in the installer. i think what happened is, the bios is forcing itself through the graphics card as when i take out a bootable medium, and or spam f2 no picture. so how can i access the bios again? my system specs are •8086k @4.0 ghz/stock •p106 innotec3d/axle •Z390 taichi ultimate • Cooling : 2 pre installed case fans, Mugen 5 rev b its fan, and thermal grizzly paste. • Case: Focus G • 1tb Samsung 860 evo • OS: Soon to be ubuntu with unity de • Corsair vengence 2400 @ 2193 (Stock) • 750 watt corsair psu gold

Yesterday, I saw someone on tieba/baidu.com (A Chinese Forums just like reddit) showed a way to change P106 to GTX1060. A P106 is about 500RMB (72$) on taobao.com. Then he got a modified driver and use the integrated graphics as the display output. Is this also useful to P104(GTX1080) for about 1100RMB(158$)? Sorry to my poor spoken English. Here is the link:http://tieba.baidu.com/p/5963527384

I'm not advertising. I'm not advertising. I'm not advertising. Hello everyone, I'm an LTT channel subscriber from China. Recently I heard from one of my friends that there is a variety of Nvidia P106 being sold on Taobao, the seller provides a modified Nvidia driver that makes GPU-Z detect it as GTX 1060, and it can also be used as an 'optimus' card with some tweaks. The seller said that the performance is nearly to a low-end GTX 1060, but the price is about one third of GTX 1060 (the lowest price of P106 in China is CNY 399 / USD ~57, and the lowest price of GTX 1060 in China is CNY 1199 / USD ~172). I'd to know if Linus is interesting in this strange graphic card, and make a video to evaluate it. Here's the direct link to the Taobao page.

Hi, so long story short. I like to make builds that break all taboos and cost so weirdly cheap and perform so well. However, out of all my broken taboos of dual cpu gaming, ddr3 memory 2gbx16 build, purely usb gaming computer; the only thing I’ve never messed with is the gpu. Mainly cause the deals of used gpu are non existent. Gpu don’t scale that well in the used market the same way xeons do and ecc registered memory and even Chinese mother boards. Gpu usually are over priced, rare and stupidly hard to get imported when bought used. Except I forgot that tesla gpus exist. You know that server dedicated line of gpu that use to be paired with Xeon super computers. Yea those things. Guess what, they cheap as hell and they are plentiful. However, I know for a fact you can game on them cause there are videos of benchmarks, there’s vm machines that can use them with a little modding. There’s the fact they have CUDA cores. Only problem, no video output. Vm solves this with vgpu or pcie pass through. Except I’m not running this on a vm, I’m running this on a normal build. Which means I need to find a way to make this render a game, grab the frame buffer, pass it through the pcie and to either integrated gpu such as the p106 card in Linus’ video, or preferred to pass through a dedicated graphics card. Trust me when I say this, the next person to say this is not a gaming graphics card I will hit you with the might of cloud gaming and curse you to tech hell. Now let’s get started on solutions huh? First step, program running. Easy enough just tell it which gpu to run, Windows has a feature for this, second step, frame buffer. This is integrated into all gpus just need a way to access it and this is possible through Nvidia sdk. Now to transfer it to another i/o device. Hard part, see all solutions involve tricking an api into thinking it’s passing the frames through pcie pass through when in reality it’s just passing raw frames over same instance. The second solution involves running code that creates a vnc like server to grab the frames and then spit them out on the actual gpu output. Both solutions require tricking or writing code that there is zero support for understanding. Please someone has to help me solve this. If I can then imma get tech yes city mind blown straight to Valhalla. Email me if you wanna get direct with me squidwrad@gmail.com

Hi, I own an Intel Core i7 930 1st gen CPU. In the same computer I have a NVIDIA P106-100 (mining card) and a NVIDIA GT 170 (for display output) as GPUs. Normally I use the P106-100 GPU for Machine Learning as well as 3D rendering both of wich do not require video output from the GPU. This is something that I have been using for several months and has been just fine. However, after watching Linus' videos about gaming on the P106-100 I thought that that could be a nice addition. However, since I have a 1st gen CPU I am unable to select the P106-100 for high performance. I was aware of this when I bought it. I was just wondering if it would be possible to run a Virtual Machine of Windows 10 or an emulator that emulates a 4th gen or higher Intel CPU? Is this possible or am I crazy? Thanks very much!

Budget: 700 usd, but prefirably less. can go 1000 if nessesary. Country: us i am gonna make a system for a friend. it'll have ubuntu 20.04 umix os. i have a spare gpu, so that is not included in the budget, nor are keyboard/mouse. i was thinking of going amd, but i looked and their equivalent of a 6core lacks an igpu which is a must for the p106 to work. the system will be used for gaming. anything i should change? PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $174.99 @ B&H CPU Cooler Scythe Mugen 5 Rev. B 51.17 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard ASRock Z390 Taichi Ultimate ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Storage Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $178.75 @ Amazon Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case $64.98 @ Newegg Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $144.99 @ Best Buy Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $563.71 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-06-24 01:09 EDT-0400

My system came with 384.130 nvdia drivers for my 1060. is it safe to jump right into 440.64? or do i need to go inorder? photon games complaining about not supporting over dx9 is why i want to update. and i do not know what my drivers were for. p106 pre-installed or 1060? the ones i have now work extremely well so i would like to keep it constant if possible. easily over 200 fps in 4k all high csgo rightnow.