Quote from: Rascasse on August 14, 2017, 03:23:45 PM

Hey, I remember that you Phil were mining with CPUs, have you dropped it ? I am considering to buy a rig, and I am not sure whether I should pick a simple Celeron or an higher-end one to mine ZCash.

Well yes and no.

xmr on the right cpu makes only 25 cents a day profit.

but if you have a lot of 1080ti's on the rig by a lot 3 or more it all kind of fucks up. both the xmr and the gpu mining suffer.

So I do mine xmr on some 2 card rigs.

this only applies to 1080ti mining. as all I own are 1080ti's.

At the moment I have 15 1080ti's

I have 9-10 fully setup mobos other then cards.

So I can run all my mobos as 2 card 1080ti's and toss in the xmr using nvoc0018 which lets me pick threads 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

I am not doing that I am testing setups for the solar array project that buy solar and I may do. we have 1 array at his home it provides 9k winter 14 k summer 24/7 with grid tie.

so we can mine with free power up to 14k summer and up to 9k winter.

he wants to build one 3x the size so 42k summer 27k winter

total for the 2 arrays = 56k summer 36k winter.

The bigger array will be 60 minute drive from us in Howell NJ

so stable rigs are more important then anything

we may go the route of lots of 2 or 3 card rigs as size of rigs will not be the issue stability is more important.

10 three card rigs are better then 5 six card rigs as we would not be so fast to drive 2 hours round trip if 1 3 card rig freezes but if 1 10 card rig freezes you would drive to fix it.

Back to xmr if you have a 2 card 1080 ti rig on nvoc0018 and mine 2 thread s or 3 threads it is fine.