Quote from: greyday on January 18, 2018, 01:34:15 AM

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Quote from: greyday on January 18, 2018, 12:24:07 AM

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I suppose its my turn to contribute something. If you are into Cryptonight mining, which it sounds like a few of you are, check out this Gigabyte mini-pc for $250: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856164036

You won't be adding any graphics cards (unless you are using eGPUS) but this thing will hash at 614 H/S. You might be wondering how its possible to get that kind of performance out of a cpu with a 6 mb l3 cache. The game changer is that this processor has an embedded Iris Pro GPU with a 128 MB L4 cache. XMR-Stak recently included an optimization to take advantage of this cache space. It should ROI itself in 2.5 months. You have to provide your own ram and HD, but it does come with a wifi card so you could put this thing anywhere.

Ok, I picked up and set up one of the 5575rs (identical to the 5775, just i5 instead of i7). Out of the box and just using xmr-stak with the energy saver off, I'm getting around 200-202 h/s, which is not great but not bad. I haven't figured out how to enable support for the Iris Pro yet, still working on that, but I'm feeling pretty confident I can get it up significantly...

EDIT: ok, not exactly identical, it's 2.8-3.3ghz and 4mb l3 instead of 3.3-3.8 and 6mb l3, but I still think I can get it up much higher than 200h/s

I've got the i7 version, and I'm only getting 250 H/s. You're right though, it is a zippy little thing.

You said you've got it working off USB? Are you using win2go or something like that? I tried it on a rig that was using a G4400 and it was just way too laggy and slow.

Hash aside, I actually like it. Made me look into the Intel NUC version, nice and slim. 3x the price but I might I like it so why not.

I'm using Lubuntu, did an install to a 32gb usb3 drive. Since it's mostly going to be mining, I kept it a pretty minimal install.

I think the key to better hashrates lies in the SDK for OpenCL from Intel. Problem is you have to sign up first, and it can take up to 2 days before they send you a link to the files. There is a Windows version as well.

Also I deleted and reinstalled xmr-stak and now am getting 140h/s. Gonna have to figure out why THAT is...

This doesn't use opencl or the gpu. It only uses the extra L4 cache that happens to come with the Iris gpu.