My ASUS 4nodes dedicated Monero miner

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Patrick

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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.
Network boot! If you can pull a 3-5w drive out of 24 nodes that adds up power wise.
 

Marsh

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After 8 months of mining of XMR with the 2 x ASUS 4nodes 2u servers,
I am happy to report that I made the the money back that I spent for 2 servers.
 
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Klee

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After 8 months of mining of XMR with the 2 x ASUS 4nodes 2u servers,
I am happy to report that I made the the money back that I spent for 2 servers.
I image mostly from the past few days.
 

Marsh

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Yep, I hold all the xmr that was mined from previous months.

It is sick that I started out with 7K h/s , today , all my miners are producing approx 24K h/s ,
but it is mining the same amount of XMR.
Thank goodnesss , the $100 xmr price help.
 

Marsh

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I run all the space heater miner at night with windows open.
I do not live in the city / urban area, for the last 20 years had no problem with breakin problem.
Anyway , all 4 of the entrance doors including front doors are glass doors.

Power cost is out of sight ( 0.28 per KWH last 2 months, I was hit by 0.40 cent KWH tier )
but the $100 xmr price is making it less painful.

I run a 10K H/s mining operation at my son's house.
But he runs his AC all the time, the electricity bill is around $400 each month for his place.
$400 for my house.
 

Marsh

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Wow, nice price to wake up to.
Last night , put together a dual E5 v3 ( 1.1K H/s ) rig , CPU are $90 each , payback time around 3 months at $90 xmr.

When price was over $50, I start mining fulltime with a Intel 4nodes 2u 8 x E5-2660 rig, 850 H/s x 4 = 3.4K H/s consumes about 760w.

Now price is over $100, I have 4 x Intel 4nodes 2u ( LGA2011 v1 ) space heater with E5-2670, it uses tons of electricity.
I am going to tune it up, put it on hot standby.
 

nthu9280

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Wow, nice price to wake up to.
Last night , put together a dual E5 v3 ( 1.1K H/s ) rig , CPU are $90 each , payback time around 3 months at $90 xmr.

When price was over $50, I start mining fulltime with a Intel 4nodes 2u 8 x E5-2660 rig, 850 H/s x 4 = 3.4K H/s consumes about 760w.

Now price is over $100, I have 4 x Intel 4nodes 2u ( LGA2011 v1 ) space heater with E5-2670, it uses tons of electricity.
I am going to tune it up, put it on hot standby.
@Marsh -
Wow, where/when did you find the $90 E5 V3s?

Any of the QS chips I looked were way more. I'm mining using sth docker dwarfpool and seeing 850 H/s with dual E5-4650 V3. Host is CentOS. Not sure if I'm missing any tweaks.
I paid ~$210 ea. Should be similar to 2650 V3 perf wise.

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Marsh

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E5-4650 V3
Small world, like you , I picked up 2 x E5-4665 v3 for $180 total. There is no warranty for the CPU, sold as-is.
In last couple of years, only had 2 cpu that were actually defective.

E5-4665 v3 for mining, the spec looks ok, the price are cheap.

Dual E5-4665 v3 CPU , 1.1K H/s @ 192watt = 5.7 H/s per watt
Dual E5-2650 v3 CPU , 0.9K H/s @155watt = 5.8 H/s per watt

The E5-4665 v3 have L3 30MB ( good ) , base clock is 2.9Ghz ( good ), 6 cores - 12Threads ( not so good ).
Because the smaller amount of 6 physical cores, it is not using the full L3 cache.

I am using Ubuntu 16.0.4 with xmr-stak-cpu, may be you could try to see if there is hashrate increase.