Question Turn on the CPU space-heaters tonight, boys, we eat good tonight!

[VirtualLarry]

CPU mining profitable again! Upgrade to a 5800X3D, have it pay for itself over 100 days!(*)

(*) This should not be construed as financial advice.

 

[NTMBK]

Ban crypto

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Thank gawd I went all in on a new build in October last year. I should be able to ride out the next 4-6 years of AI/Crypto BS in relative comfort.

 

[mikeymikec]

Yay, let's make CPUs vastly overpriced again.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yay, let's make CPUs vastly overpriced again.

Something's gotta save AMD again...

 

[IEC]

Oh look, another crapcoin that adds negative value to society and contributes towards the heat death of the universe. What's old is new again?

J Pow, please raise interest rates another 200 bp. No cuts in 2024. Make Volcker great again. No bailouts this time either! Let the gross misallocation of capital sort itself out. Through bankruptcy. /s

 

[VirtualLarry]

$10+ PROFIT After 72Hrs,with four CPUs. (5900x, 5900x, 5800x,and a Xeon 12-core).

 

[DrMrLordX]

$10+ PROFIT After 72Hrs,with four CPUs. (5900x, 5900x, 5800x,and a Xeon 12-core).

He could make a lot more on a ghostrider switching pool. A 3900x is putting out maybe $1.76/day doing that (sometimes more, sometimes less, it varies). Getting ~$3.33 per day with four generally-better mining CPUs is not that impressive.

Yeah it's cool that he's in the black, and PoW is a lot easier to swallow when people are using CPUs to do the mining instead of GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs that consume much more power. It's also nice to see Zen2 remain relevant on more than a few algos. Getting new hardware for CPU mining seems like a waste of money when the sweet spot is (apparently) still the 3900X for a lot of people. Check out these EPYC hashrates, for example:

Rabid only got ~12.3 KH/s running ghostrider on his EPYC 7742. Keep in mind that's 64 cores of Zen3 @ 2.25 GHz. 12 cores of Zen 2 @ maybe 3.9 GHz produces 3.5 KH/s. Granted used EPYC 7742s are pretty cheap on eBay, especially if you buy the "ships from China" ones. I looked into the randomx numbers as well, and going massively parallel didn't help as much there either as you would expect.