"2x Intel Xeon E5 V3 (like E5-2667 V3's) chips. These are the big 35MB L3 cache chips that run at a decently high-frequency 8C / 16T chips with a huge L3 cache.
@Klee approved for Monero mining and great for MySQL. $650 for the pair. I have been using them in my desktop:"
If it would have been a couple of weeks ago , I would have been all over them but I already started another project.
These have sold out on ebay for several months.
These things are GREAT performance/price cpu's for a dedicated monero miner.
You can run ALL 16 threads on each cpu mining monero at 3.0 Ghz.
There are cpu's that are better but they are more money.
I do not run all threads, I leave two free for the two RX 480's affinity and I still use it as a desktop that is still VERY responsive.
HASHRATE REPORT
| ID | 2.5s | 60s | 15m | ID | 2.5s | 60s | 15m |
| 0 | 41.7 | 41.3 | (na) | 1 | 40.7 | 40.3 | (na) |
| 2 | 40.7 | 40.4 | (na) | 3 | 41.5 | 40.8 | (na) |
| 4 | 37.0 | 36.7 | (na) | 5 | 36.9 | 36.6 | (na) |
| 6 | 38.0 | 37.9 | (na) | 7 | 37.8 | 37.7 | (na) |
| 8 | 41.0 | 40.9 | (na) | 9 | 39.9 | 39.3 | (na) |
| 10 | 39.9 | 40.4 | (na) | 11 | 41.0 | 40.3 | (na) |
| 12 | 35.7 | 36.1 | (na) | 13 | 36.4 | 36.4 | (na) |
| 14 | 41.5 | 41.0 | (na) | 15 | 41.0 | 40.5 | (na) |
| 16 | 41.6 | 41.3 | (na) | 17 | 40.6 | 40.4 | (na) |
| 18 | 40.6 | 40.6 | (na) | 19 | 41.4 | 40.8 | (na) |
| 20 | 36.9 | 36.6 | (na) | 21 | 36.6 | 35.9 | (na) |
| 22 | 38.3 | 38.3 | (na) | 23 | 37.6 | 37.6 | (na) |
| 24 | 41.1 | 41.0 | (na) | 25 | 39.9 | 39.6 | (na) |
| 26 | 39.9 | 40.4 | (na) | 27 | 40.9 | 40.3 | (na) |
| 28 | 35.7 | 36.2 | (na) | 29 | 36.3 | 36.3 | (na) |
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Totals: 1168.9 1171.1 (na) H/s
Highest: 1179.0 H/s
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "^[c]pu MHz"
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