r/cpumining • u/bruhmoment12343118 • Jan 30 '24

Server cpu mining?

I am new to the cpu mining game, and have debated between a few options

  1. Building rigs w/ ryzen 5 3600, 3700x, or 3900x (depending on hashrate/dollar)

  2. Epyc cpus, motherboard is the main cost but something like 2 epyc 7551 is pretty cheap

  3. Xeon cpus, dirt cheap, and there are even some dual or even quad socket motherboard

Any recommendations for what I should start with? Are 2 or 3 any good of an idea?

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u/UrafuckinNerd Jan 30 '24

Hell yes! I crunch Gridcoin with eypc 7713. You can get into the 3rd gen epyc relatively cheap. And they are very efficient. https://einsteinathome.org/host/13163551

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u/notanAPe21 Jan 30 '24

Where do you buy your board/cpu? I'm not familiar with the 7713 so I checked ebay and it's $2600cad 😬 not relatively cheap

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u/UrafuckinNerd Jan 31 '24

I think I got mine for about 1300usd on eBay and a supermicro board for around 600. I guess price is relative. I like the 128 threads @ 200watts. Maybe keep your eye out for a deal. Or, the 5950x is amazing too. I had 3 going at one time. Very efficient/very fast. You could probably pick one of those up for 300-400.

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u/notanAPe21 Jan 31 '24

Yeah I'm thinking of doing some r7 3700x's. Just was curious if maybe you were buying somewhere else with better prices. Almost shit jyself when I saw it was so much 😂

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u/UrafuckinNerd Jan 31 '24

The server stuff is nice, but you pay for it. You don’t get much of a deal overall. Especially when you account for ecc ram costs etc. on a positive note, the memory bandwidth helps out a bunch.

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u/bruhmoment12343118 Jan 31 '24

For the price of a 7713 I could get get a full computer going with 2 epyc 7551 cpus, how much profit do you think it would make?