Older Quad-CPU servers seem to be a "goldmine" right now with GPU shortage and popularity of Cryptonight coins like ITNS.
Even so, older CPU's aren't particularly efficient with cryptonight.
I have an old Intel Xeon E5645 6 core (85W TDP) in my secondary machine and it struggles with 200 H/s with 6 threads. And it should excel with its 12 Mb of cache.
My laptop has a tiny core i7 7500u (15W TDP) and it does 130 H/s with 2 threads...
I also run a ton of older Xeons... they do plenty well for being cheap as they are (get your money back in a month). I mainly use X5660 models on 5 threads... about 230 H/S
Of course more modern CPUs are more efficient but they are pricey.
How did you reconfigure your cpus? I'm running x5660s as well but am only getting around 175H/S
Minimal since it has no GPU assist w/ only Intel HD video and not Iris Pro w/ 128mb of RAM.
Thanks! Is there something in the product number that says "Iris Pro thingy"?
i7's that have Iris are 5950HQ 5850HQ 5750HQ 5755C 5775R
i5's that have Iris are 5675C 5675R 5575R
There is more to the list than this There are a bunch of Skylake processors with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Mainstream_and_high-end_desktop_processors Along with Haswell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)#Desktop_processors
I couldn't find any CPU that would work on an ATX mother board, am I mistaken?
Yeah you are mistaken. There are plenty aval that will work on any Z97 or H97 mobo provided the BIOS is up to date and supports those CPU's per manufacturer.
If one had like 50 Z97/H97 mobos, they could make a killing. Unfortunately you need mobo, ram, HDD/flash drive and PSU. But I can still stomp that $250 Brix deal into the dust with what ive found.
What did you find that beats the Brix deal? I cant find one that's anywhere close to 249.
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BoardMining (Altcoins)
Re: Building Cheap Miners : My "Secret"
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SQ1
on 20/01/2018, 06:10:14 UTC
I think I may be picking one of these up as well. Please let us know how it goes setting this up. You have definitely inspired a lot of folks, including me!
PC 1: Xeon X5660 GTX1060 GPU 12GB RAM Windows 10 Chrome
PC2: i7-6500 GTX 950 8GB Windows 10 Chrome
Cell: Samsung S7 Android 7.0 Chrome
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BoardMining (Altcoins)
Re: Building Cheap Miners : My "Secret"
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SQ1
on 10/01/2018, 01:21:16 UTC
What hashrate are you guys getting on the X5660? I'm curious as I am just getting started with Intense Coins on XMRIG and am just looking for a sanity check that I have things running correctly.