thor420 (OP)
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December 23, 2017, 09:29:12 PM |
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I'm kinda wounder what would be the best way going about setting up multiple CPUs for mining similar to how your would GPUs, right now i am getting 250 h/s on my AMD FX 6 core, and if the calculator is not wrong, i can make 15 dollars after power cost a month of XMR, is there components or a way for me to setup say 5 of my CPUs, i just don't know what to even look for, i was checking out server mother boards, but not sure about it. just looking for more along the lines a small pci boards, or even separate unit i could plug a cpu into and use to mine? is there anything like this if not think there could be a market for it? i think there might be i mean if there are cpus capable of making profit, maybe even help levereage the strangle hold on the GPU market, or put it in the same position
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December 23, 2017, 09:48:57 PM |
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Best you can do is with 4 of latest Xeon Processors which will make you about 3900-5100 h/s with very low power consumption. That is the same as having a 6 GPU-rig running for you all the time, the cost is very high for such setup though and probably you can build a 6 GPU-rig with half money compared to such latest Xeon Processors PC.
Processors are : 4x Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 = 5100 h/s Monero hashrate.
Price is very expensive though and better to go with 6 GPU rig.
Price tag of such processor is 10k usd so with that money you can build 3 x 6 GPU-s rig.
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December 23, 2017, 10:54:17 PM |
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for what Im getting, CPU mining is really not profitable
so basically you are talking about having several GPUs mining rings
lets say you have, just for the sake of making things straight
10 GPUs mining rigs with 10 GPU each, that would make up a total of 100 GPUs mining at same time
in plain english, you have 10 PCs with 10 Video cards
So the questions is
Your basically having 100 miners (workers) all working towards getting Crypto Coins for you
I mean... how would you connect 10 PCs working towards the same, or does each ring works separate??
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thor420 (OP)
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December 24, 2017, 12:58:04 AM |
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i kinda get what your saying, sorry for nto explaining enough, best why i could explain it is, say i have something like a gridseed blade, but instead i could put my own cpu's on it instead, and use it to eliminate having to run multiple whole motherboards
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December 24, 2017, 01:40:10 AM |
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The thing to do is to build mining rigs with GPUs that also have a decent CPU that can mine while your GPUs are all mining. You need a CPU anyways, so it's only smart economics to buy one that will pay for itself and bring in some extra $ each year. The downside is that bang for buck AMD has the best CPUs for mining and there are very few AMD socket mining specific motherboards out there.... only 1 that I know of actually.
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December 24, 2017, 02:02:42 AM |
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as of right now i do mine on my cpu when im using it, which is 24/7, i was just wounder cause i could get my hands on 2 AMD FX 6 cores at no cost to me and i was just wanted to see if i could use them to mine without the need for a whole other motherboard setup, been saving for rx 480 but winter been brutal on my electic bill been hard to save, thanks for all the information yins where very helpfull
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December 04, 2019, 03:28:42 AM |
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Multi CPU "rigs" don't exist. Multi CPU motherboards and the CPUs that support them are very expensive and support only a few CPUs.
Intel Phi compute modules can be installed like GPUs but are also very expensive.
The closest you can get to a CPU mining rig is a Ryzen R9 or Threadripper with 16 to 32 cores and double the threads. There could even be a 64 core TR in the near future.
As far as cost goes the more systems you build the more the overhead in motherboard, RAM, PSU, SSD etc. Fewer systems with bigger CPUs would be more cost effective but near the high end the CPU prices rise quicker negating the overhead savings of fewer systems.
You'll have to find the sweet spot.
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mak013
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December 04, 2019, 06:33:47 AM |
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You can build such rig just for fun. Its too expensive to build such a rig with new mb, CPU, etc. If you just want to test it in easy and cheap way - try to buy at aliexpress used components.
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December 04, 2019, 07:22:44 PM |
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If you already have am4 boards, psu, ram then it's not much of an issue but I think we both know what the majority of motherboards used for gpu mining were. They were those crap little 1150 with g1580s in them and ddr3 ram.I doubt many bought am4 to throw an Apu or a pricey CPU in while never thinking of CPU mining. i feel lucky to have three 3900x one threadripper all running and three more boards ready to upgrade . no psu cost no ram cost only one mobo purchased. i will have seven running for under 2000. roi will be 150-200 days. pretty quiet and will warm the basement for winter.
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mak013
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December 05, 2019, 07:43:05 AM |
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i will have seven running for under 2000. roi will be 150-200 days.
pretty quiet and will warm the basement for winter.
Usually such calculating ought to multiply x2-x3. Nowadays any coin with profit getting huge hashes really fast. And ROI becoming 250, 350, 450... But 3 CPU without any additional expences are the nice choice for home PCs.
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December 05, 2019, 10:06:30 AM |
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If you already have am4 boards, psu, ram then it's not much of an issue but I think we both know what the majority of motherboards used for gpu mining were. They were those crap little 1150 with g1580s in them and ddr3 ram.I doubt many bought am4 to throw an Apu or a pricey CPU in while never thinking of CPU mining. i feel lucky to have three 3900x one threadripper all running and three more boards ready to upgrade . no psu cost no ram cost only one mobo purchased. i will have seven running for under 2000. roi will be 150-200 days. pretty quiet and will warm the basement for winter. ROI 150 - 200 days? No way, never, noooo. Which calculator you are using?
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joblo
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December 05, 2019, 02:29:28 PM |
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People have to realize as long as xmr/monero changes al-gore-rhythms
Nice pun, I guess it could be called an algorism. I think RandomX is a game changer, even more than than MTP. I expect it so have a longer ASIC-free life.
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mak013
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December 06, 2019, 06:36:47 AM |
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I think RandomX is a game changer, even more than than MTP. I expect it so have a longer ASIC-free life.
Asic-free does not meet profitable. CPU-only algo will attract botnet farmers and ali-express ancient CPU buyers. They have low hashes but more than GPU and costs really cheap.
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December 06, 2019, 07:05:35 AM |
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I think RandomX is a game changer, even more than than MTP. I expect it so have a longer ASIC-free life.
Asic-free does not meet profitable. CPU-only algo will attract botnet farmers and ali-express ancient CPU buyers. They have low hashes but more than GPU and costs really cheap. True, ASIC free doesn't guarantee net proftability but eliminating ASICS will decrease difficulty and improve earnings. The botnet issue is no different than when Monero used cryptonight. The GPUs will move to other algos depressing them relative to RandomX.
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mak013
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December 07, 2019, 08:12:37 AM |
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I think RandomX is a game changer, even more than than MTP. I expect it so have a longer ASIC-free life.
Asic-free does not meet profitable. CPU-only algo will attract botnet farmers and ali-express ancient CPU buyers. They have low hashes but more than GPU and costs really cheap. More so the botnets but not the ancient CPU, the cost is too high for the motherboards, atx psu, ram and a flash drive all of them will need. Im to lazy to count all of it. As i see used XEON costs $10-30, motherboard about $20-30, ram+flash - $20-30, PSU - $25. This is if you buy it. But as for me - i have all of it except CPU enough to make about 4 rigs.
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December 14, 2019, 02:45:50 AM |
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Hi guys, do you have a recommended coin that are good for cpu mining? I have a couples of amd desktop, I just want to add it in my gpu mining aramada, just want to try a cpu base mining coin.
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December 14, 2019, 02:43:27 PM |
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Hi guys, do you have a recommended coin that are good for cpu mining? I have a couples of amd desktop, I just want to add it in my gpu mining aramada, just want to try a cpu base mining coin.
The good and old Monero is the coin you want to mine Recently XMR changed the algo and it's profitable again for lot of people You can download the miner and try
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