Any use for my dust trap ? [AM3+]

[IIx]

 
Hello everyone,

my system is already 7 years old and I was wondering if you maybe know which alternatives i possibly have - to keep things short >
PC-Spec.:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
GPU: AMD 7950 / R200
MB: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
RAM: 8 GB Kingston HyperX, DDR3-1600
SSD: 2 TB, 500 GB, 500 GB
(i know, i know ..)

BURST or ETN  maybe ?  I appreciate any guidance

discord.gg/M26gVU

:pinkwojak:

[Ultegra134]

Hello everyone,

my system is already 7 years old and I was wondering if you maybe know which alternatives i possibly have - to keep things short >
PC-Spec.:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
GPU: AMD 7950 / R200
MB: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
RAM: 8 GB Kingston HyperX, DDR3-1600
SSD: 2 TB, 500 GB, 500 GB
(i know, i know ..)

BURST or ETN  maybe ?  I appreciate any guidance

discord.gg/M26gVU

:pinkwojak:

It's an old machine, don't expect any decent earnings. It highly depends on your electricity costs. Unfortunately, your GPU is not only old, but it has high power consumption for the performance it offers (Approximately 200 watts in torture/mining mode). If I am not mistaken, your GPU has 3gb of ram, thus, you can still mine Ethhash coins, such as MusicCoin, Ubiq and a couple more found on whattomine.

[edwardceng]

if the consideration is better running than idle, of course, you can do to mine ETN and if you have free electricity and Internet access. but if you hope to want profit and you don't have free electricity and internet, I suggest don't use that's device for mining because of you would get a small profit it.

[Coffee135]

You can fly around the earth by plane and you will do it. You can go by car and not the fact that you will succeed. You can ride a bike and you will need to spend a lot of energy and money. I don't think you're gonna finish this trip. The same mining on your computer. This is very old equipment. Your income will be enough only to cover the cost of electricity. You need it?

[IIx]

@Ultegra134
Thanks for the reply, will take a look on those coins !
@Ultegra134 @edwardceng
totally get what you mean regarding to electricity and internet access(costs)
@Coffee135
well i dont need it really^^, just a little bit curious

thank you, glad to join here !

[QuintLeo]

HD 7950 is basically a R9 280 with slightly slower ram, it should pull 250 sol/s ballpark on Zcash and clones.
Ignore Ethhash coins like ETH/ETC - it's only going to pull perhaps 12 Mhash at this point and more likely less than 10.
200 watts power consumption sounds like the right ballpark, perhaps a bit less if you can tune it well enough.

It should even be profitable, if your electric cost is low enough.

Your Phenom should be able to pull over 200 hash/sec on Monero - depends on if it's 6 MB cache or 8 MB, it might pull close to 300 if it has the larger cache amount.

SSD are severe overkill for BURST mining, but if you have the space available might as well use it.
Earnings will average out to "TINY" though on that, but the energy cost would be tiny and READS from SSDs don't hurt them.

[Elder III]

Like Quintleo said above, your HD 7950 can do 250-260 on Equihash - they still sell for $130-150+ on eBay right now too, so if this is just a spare parts PC that would be your quickest profit. 

[manji]

SSD: 2 TB, 500 GB, 500 GB

Burst
Yeah, you can mine proof of capacity coins such as Burst coin with that storage. And still, use your PC as normally used. Else, you can add more GPU to your mobo, since that mobo has 4 PCIe 16x right?

ETN
Of course, you can mine ETN, but I'm not sure about your profit.

[CryptoPicknAxe]

For your CPU, I'm not 100 percent sure, but I don't think that the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T CPU has AES hardware instructions. Without hardware AES, CPU mining ANY cryptonote coin (like ETN) will be very inefficient. I don't know their current profitability, but check into mining Magi (XMG) or Zcoin (XZC) with your CPU. I don't think those algorithms use AES.

[QuintLeo]

Looks like AES support started with the Bulldozer cores - the generation after the Phenom line (any FX series AMD CPU and it looks like ALL of their APUs support AES).