My ASUS 4nodes dedicated Monero miner

[Marsh]

@frogtech

Let's continue discussion in this new thread.

The main worker is a ASUS 4 nodes 2u chassis, each nodes have 2 x E5-2650 v3 , 2 x 4gb ram , 16gb SSD.
the ASUS node produced 876 H/s , each chassis is 876 x 4 = 3,504 H/s , consume 576 watt .
I have 2 ASUS chassises, each ASUS chassis cost me about $1500.

The ASUS 4nodes chassis was Newegg special posted on the great deal section.
I was lucky , the right place at the right time on Ebay to purchased all the E5-2650 v3 QFSB cpu at $110 each BO. The CPU is not the best performer for XMR mining, the L3 cache is only 25MB , more cache the better.
But at $110 each, initial cost is low enough for fast payback. Hashrate is each CPU is 484 H/s.
But when I disabled the unused cores , only have 7 active cores, power usage dropped 10%.

My current configuration is 7 active cores per CPU , 12 Threads per CPU, produced 878 H/s but power usage reduced from 664w to 576w. math is 877 x 4 / 576 watt = 6.09 H/s per watt, I think it is very efficient and profitable.

When I stop mining, I still have a nice shiny ASUS 4nodes LGA2011 v3 ,v4 for toys.

 

[Patrick]

If you try docker mining you can switch between mining and workload in under a second.

And that CPU deal was amazing.

 

[Marsh]

I had to strip the nodes down to bare necessity.
My current thinking is dedicated the server to mining for the next 7 months, recoup the initial investment, deploy the server to the lab with full memory and SSD.

Find the next new toys, rinse and repeat.

 

[Patrick]

So I take it you are running 1 DIMM/ CPU then? Trying to gauge how you are beating the 2628L V4 powerhouses

 

[Evan]

I have to say making that minimum config I am very impressed with then very low power consumption given the 100% workload

 

[Marsh]

I think the E5-2628L v4 is hashrate is better than the E5-2650 v3 ES chip.

When I disabled 4 cores ( 6 active cores ), there was 1% power saving. I just leave it at 7 active cores.

My guess is:
I am using xmr-stak-cpu , it is faster than other miner program.
I am not using docker , more CPU cycle for mining.

Yes , 1 x 4gb ram stick per CPU. I just hated to buy 4 gb stick because 4gb ram is not useful outside of dedicated miner.

 

[Patrick]

The hash rate is still slightly better on the E5-2628L V4, but your power consumption is very good with the V3's.

Docker uses very little (Rancher is actually the bigger CPU suck) but since there are unused active cores it is not too much.

 

[Marsh]

I looked up E5-2628L V4 hashrate from monero performance thread
2x Intel Xeon E5-2628L V4 = 897H/s

E5-2630 v3 ES with all cores enabled produced 899 H/s

It is virtually the same hashrate as each other

 

[max88]

Here is my math.
My little setup mined 0.8 XMR per day,

The main worker is a ASUS 4 nodes 2u chassis, each nodes have 2 x E5-2650 v3 , 2 x 4gb ram , 16gb SSD.
the ASUS node produced 876 H/s , each chassis is 876 x 4 = 3,504 H/s , consume 576 watt .
I have 2 ASUS chassises, each ASUS chassis cost me about $1500.

2 X RX 480 cards host by a MSI x99 board with a E5-2650L v3
1 x RX 470 card host by a Asrock Extreme6 board with a E5-2673 v3

How many combined H/s in your setup to mine 0.8 XMR/day?
3,504 H/s yields 0.24~0.25 XMR/day on mineXMR.com and minergate.com.

 

[Patrick]

@max88 I can tell you, a lot more than it used to. I am down to 21.6KH/s and that is only good for ~1.4 XMR/ day.

@Marsh has a large setup going now.

 

[Marsh]

About 11 KH/s , difficulty rate have been going up, payout is less , more people are mining now.

I am planning have to fire up few more E5 v3 system to compensate for the less payout rate.

Right now, I am working on few older Intel 4nodes chassis with dual E5-2660 v1 CPU.
With disabled cores ( 5 active cores ), it is getting 850 H/s at 191w ( not too good , but at $41 , it may be profitable ).
Stock dual E5-2660 v1 all cores enabled for my Intel 4nodes chassis is 860 H/s at 227w.

The chassis have 4 nodes with 1 power supply, to be fair, I'll need to fire up 3 more nodes to take a more accurate power reading.

 

[Marsh]

One more ideas, I am mining with minexmr.com.
Some times , the pool is really lucky, example , we mined 10xmr in hour few days ago. Very often 7-8 xmr per hours.

Last night was not so lucky, less payout.

 

[Marsh]

I just check my balance
May 29 8am 5.000027043479 XMR
Current May 29 5:40pm 5.368645799613 XMR

about 9 hours earned 0.368 XMR

 

[Klee]

I had to strip the nodes down to bare necessity.
My current thinking is dedicated the server to mining for the next 7 months, recoup the initial investment, deploy the server to the lab with full memory and SSD.

Find the next new toys, rinse and repeat.

 

[Klee]

So I take it you are running 1 DIMM/ CPU then? Trying to gauge how you are beating the 2628L V4 powerhouses

My Open Compute server W/ E5-2660 V1 cpu's running Ubuntu 17.04 is using WAY less than one gig per node running XMR-STAK-CPU.

 

[max88]

Thanks for the replies. With the spare CPU cycles on my 24/7 lab box, rounding up to 200H/s x 365 = 73KH/s ---> 5.29XMR/year!!!

 

[Klee]

@frogtech

Let's continue discussion in this new thread.

The main worker is a ASUS 4 nodes 2u chassis, each nodes have 2 x E5-2650 v3 , 2 x 4gb ram , 16gb SSD.
the ASUS node produced 876 H/s , each chassis is 876 x 4 = 3,504 H/s , consume 576 watt .
I have 2 ASUS chassises, each ASUS chassis cost me about $1500.

The ASUS 4nodes chassis was Newegg special posted on the great deal section.
I was lucky , the right place at the right time on Ebay to purchased all the E5-2650 v3 QFSB cpu at $110 each BO. The CPU is not the best performer for XMR mining, the L3 cache is only 25MB , more cache the better.
But at $110 each, initial cost is low enough for fast payback. Hashrate is each CPU is 484 H/s.
But when I disabled the unused cores , only have 7 active cores, power usage dropped 10%.

My current configuration is 7 active cores per CPU , 12 Threads per CPU, produced 878 H/s but power usage reduced from 664w to 576w. math is 877 x 4 / 576 watt = 6.09 H/s per watt, I think it is very efficient and profitable.

When I stop mining, I still have a nice shiny ASUS 4nodes LGA2011 v3 ,v4 for toys.

Not seeing any pics.......

 

[Marsh]

Patrick takes better picture than me
see ASUS RS720Q-E8-RS8-P and ASUS Z10PH-D16 Thread

post 19

 

[Patrick]

Thanks for the replies. With the spare CPU cycles on my 24/7 lab box, rounding up to 200H/s x 365 = 73KH/s ---> 5.29XMR/year!!!

Welcome to the fray.

 

[frogtech]

Not to brag but I was able to snag 3 HP S6500s with SL230s Gen8 nodes for 300/ea(24 nodes). My plan is to load them up with E5-2660, 1GB RAM, bare minimum storage, and go to town.