Yes, but I do very unorthodox builds. Lots of computing power for peanuts though.Hey All
Has anyone had any thoughts on such a deployment?
Its not too late, it is if you are a home miner but on a larger scale its worth wild and as long as you keep adding to your hashing power to keep ahead of the curve you are fine. Many other GPU Coins to mine but everyone is trying to mine ETH until it goes to PoSIt's too late to be building dedicated miner rigs, too expensive and the returns are low.
The only thing worthwhile now is using hardware you already have that are free from any other use and if you have cheap power.
Good points. Personally I prefer AMD CPUs. You get more bang for the buck, but in most cases a little more power consumption than on Intel. Retail value may drop faster than on Intel as well. But I've also spent time tuning the mining software. There's a lot of room for improvement in that part. And I mean a lot. I don't know why people just take something like Wolf's low-quality cowboy code and use it out-of-the-box. I have better results h/s -wise on all my hardware than I've seen posted anywhere so far. And I'm not done optimizing yet.Its not too late, it is if you are a home miner but on a larger scale its worth wild and as long as you keep adding to your hashing power to keep ahead of the curve you are fine. Many other GPU Coins to mine but everyone is trying to mine ETH until it goes to PoS
Capital investment into hardware is less of a risk then using the same amount to buy into any coins, Example the other day when the street ran red putting the same amount into coins you instantly lost upto 40% of your investment. Price does fluctuate but the risk of any one of these coins failing is still there..
GPU Miners can also be re-purposed, - Re sale of the rigs / Cards is always there, leasing out compute for medical research, Deep AI learning, Rendering etc....
Are you talking about mining software optimizations compared to xmr stak miner? Are you able to get better results with your mining software than with latest version xmr stak cpu miner?But I've also spent time tuning the mining software. There's a lot of room for improvement in that part. And I mean a lot. I don't know why people just take something like Wolf's low-quality cowboy code and use it out-of-the-box. I have better results h/s -wise on all my hardware than I've seen posted anywhere so far. And I'm not done optimizing yet.
I've also toyed with the idea of building up a serious hash ripper. About 2000 cores - 48kh/s solution with a total cost of under 20k USD. I'll talk more on that if I ever get started on it.
I haven't used it yet - been too busy building and tuning I tweaked cpu-miner. Will test stak and get back with results. Any stats on it's performance available?Are you talking about mining software optimizations compared to xmr stak miner? Are you able to get better results with your mining software than with latest version xmr stak cpu miner?
need to know what CPUs you've usedWill test stak and get back with results. Any stats on it's performance available?
Seems pretty low result.For reference from the Monero mining performance thread. Those results are with Wolf's. I do better (985-990 H/s) than this Intel from 2014 with 2x several years older AMD CPU's:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2680 V3 = 969H/s
Very interesting. From the xm-stak site I see people reporting 830h/s and 880h/s for a dual 2670v1. What non-documented and non-standard tricks are you doing to achieve the higher results?need to know what CPUs you've used
Seems pretty low result.
my 2x e5 2670v1 pushes 970-975H on xmr stak with 20 threads
results in monero mining perfomance thread are not always actual
P.S.: I just assumed that you able to get better results with your optimised miner than with xmr stak
Nothing special I just setup quantity of threads by rule: L3 cache/2=total quantity of threads.Very interesting. From the xm-stak site I see people reporting 830h/s and 880h/s for a dual 2670v1. What non-documented and non-standard tricks are you doing to achieve the higher results?
Hey All
I have built in the past Australia's largest X11 Mining Farm for Dash, And we are now building a Eth mining farm in Perth Australia with a large data center, Our initial deployment is 50 GPU Mining Rigs, 40 Scrypt L3+ Mining Rigs.
- I wanted to look into the feasibility of building and scaling a CPU Mining farm along with our GPU Farm. - Before anyone asks we have secured set pricing that no one else in Australia has access to for power.
After looking at @Patrick thread the only way i can see to go large scale would be to use Gen9 HP Blade servers but when i run the numbers ROI unreachable.... Same with buying a $3,000+ Server with only X2 2600 Xeons... The only other way i could think of would be to use Xeon Phi but they are very hard to come across.
Has anyone had any thoughts on such a deployment?
Matt,
If you are indeed willing to at least look into the Xeon Phi option - and are also interested in Monero - then please let me know. My Phi miner gets significantly higher monero rates than reported by Patrick (~2800 H/s for a 7210, as to Patricks wolfminer numbers at ~610 H/s).
This factor of 4.5 in performnace is sure to change your profitability numbers ... in fact, at that rate it's quite profitable to mine on a Phi.
- luk
Crazy high price, compared to mining profits...Where are you sourcing xeon PHI 7210's They look quite pricey.