are there any coins profitable to CPU mine i5 7600k soon to have a 8700k

[speedyb]

was wondering if its profitable at all to CPU mine any of the coins or cpu mine in miner gate or nice hash as my gpu's are doing eth

[Vann]

If you want to CPU mine, you have to think long term. Mining Monero may get you 0.25 XMR a month or ~$20 a month at the current price. Nexus is another CPU minable coin that has good development.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBcBXoLYFU

[speedyb]

well is monero better mined with a cpu? just curios can manero be mined with a gpu? will prolly mine cpu cause my gpu's are in use but was wondering?
also is there a program other then nicehashy just a flat out CPU miner i can run alongside claymore?

[QuintLeo]

Monero is a rare case (perhaps the ONLY case) where a GPU and a CPU can BOTH mine it profitably.

 The highest hashrate actually comes out of CPUs (some of the Intel server multi-core stuff, and AMD Epyc and Threadripper) but since you can normally set up a lot more GPUs in a rig than CPUs and some of the GPUs are pretty high hashrate, the highest hashrate RIGS are probably mostly GPU based.

 However, there are usually more profitable things those GPUs CAN mine.

 stak-xmr (something like that) seems to be the preferred Monero miner at this point - there are both CPU and GPU varients of it.