Quote from: loremipsum on February 08, 2018, 07:05:48 PM

Quote from: Random Seller on February 08, 2018, 04:35:17 AM

Quote from: wpreston on February 08, 2018, 03:55:49 AM

I've been wondering if it's still profitable to do CPU mining? I have tried Minergate with limited success and recently tried mining monero with XMR-Stak. Mainly just thought I'd stop lurking and say hello!

It depends.

If you have a cpu with lots of cache like the ryzen 1700/1800 or Threadripper 1920x/1950x you can still make a profit. But its not much.

As for the cpu in the typical mining rigs g3930/4400 its not even worth the effort at this point.

I have found out that Ryzen CPUs do well on Argon2d and 2i algorithms but i7 are much better at mining Yescrypt coins.

Really? Yescrypt better on Intel? I get 2.8Khs on my I7 7700k with Yescrypt cpuminer vs ryzen at 8.8khs. Looking at zpool.ca that should give me about 0.042mbtc/day. $0.32 per day. It does look like ryzen smokes the 7700k on Yescrypt with 8.8Khs assuming that this picture is right https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3919521/35009346-43c90910-facd-11e7-8ce1-3abc57aedd33.PNG

But the best coin for my I7 7700k is zcoin at 745khs i get 0.104mbc/day.