Guys, while chipping away at ETN I got wondering, are there any CPUs that work particularly well and anything worth mining with them? Are there any multi CPU servers that can be implemented for this purpose? I'm not even worried about profit, as long as it pays it's way. Or quit now while I'm ahead? Come on guys, inspire me
I think the only thing worth mining on cpus is cryptonight and its variants. Look for CPUs with lots of cache and low power usage. I *think* its still marginally profitable to mine on a r5 1600 and r7 1700 - but only at stock, and not on their own - but if you built a mining rig with one of them as a cpu, it'd be worth mining on it. But you'd be better off saving the money and spending on GPUs. Same for Broadwell Xeon - find one with an ungodly amount of cache, and a cheap X99 mobo off the forums, turn it into a rig, and mine on the cpu as well as the GPUs. Just plugged in r7 1700 numbers into whattomine.com, and it says it grosses about USD 0.76 per day - subtract power costs, and you get an ROI of 2+ years.
my i5 4670 (at stock) on nicehash predicts anywhere from 10-14 cents a day mining lol. hardly worth it. when using nh i have it going otherwise no point. would consider gettong one of the ryzen vega chips lol, if they bring out competative chips to that then yea not bad i guess. wont be like mining with a 1080 but still more than nothing
4670 has a TDP of 84w. Conservatively let’s say it uses 50w more mining with CPU vs CPU at idle. 0.05 x 24 = 1.2 KWh per day Unless you are paying under 10c for power you should disable the CPU. Most commonly used mining CPUs are in the same boat.
Guys, I was thinking more along the lines of server cpus with lowish clocks and lots of cores, not desktop cpus (as I know these dont produce much).
i mine with my 7800x and my ryzen 1700 -- only because these machines are on 24/7 anyway the 7800x uses 50w above its usual load I have not checked the ryzen power usage but im guessing it will be similar maybe a little less both has at around 400mh/s on monero atm unless the system is on allready its not worth mining with CPU's currently and defently not worth buying a expensive cpu to solely mone on. at current prices and difficulty I make approx 50cents (total) a day from both cpu's
Here's a reddit thread about mining on a 22 core/44 thread broadwell xeon: https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/8dbld5/nh_cryptonightv7_running_on_a_22_core_44_thread/ Lots of cache, lots of threads - but still does less than a single RX570.
there are rumours mining waltonchain with cpu's is quite profitable at the moment.. but may not last long.
I bought a failzen 2nd hand cheap as a media PC this is my 2nd failzen system I had one that was my main gaming system that I bought when they launched -- it sucked as a gaming system so I sold it ( didnt loose any $$$) and bought the 7800x.
well, i say that, but i havnt taken out the power costs haha but eitherway my pc is mining with the two gpu's, thats just what nh is saying anyway. (have my gpu's on am/mph at the moment as i wanna bump up my next eth payout though ill take a while to mine the required .1 eth for a payout )
I have a handful of complimentary 12 virtual core VMs that do alright on nicehash, but CPU mining these days really isn't worth it out of equipment you own -- which is pretty much why Dual Mining your GPUs died off pretty quick as ASICs take over everything Here's an example of where one of them gets me, again -- 12 virtual cores elected Even having a G3900 / 3930 or i3 / i5 in your GPU rigs running isn't worth the hassle So I wouldn't bother imo
Yeah fair enough, I thought maybe one of these multi cpu lotsa cores servers might churn something out, but I guess not. Cheers
