I don't think that's true with Ryzen 5 1600. If an RX 570 takes 120W, and a Ryzen 5 1600 takes 65, and the Ryzen 5 1600 makes $0.89/day, and the GPU makes $1.50-1.69/day, it seems pretty-well matched, as far as $ per TDP.I don't mine with my CPUs. Too energy-inefficient.
There was a brief period a week or two back where Nicehash was mining very, very well on my 6700k (everyone's profits upticked a bit for a day or so), but other than random fluctuations like that it's generally not advisable to CPU mine unless your power is free or very cheap. I think last time I calced it out, I would make about $20 a year with $0.08/kwh electricity (pretty cheap).What are you guys mining on your CPU's? I have two R7-1700's and a R5-1600 just sitting idle at the moment. VEGA's are paying off pretty quickly mining XMR and getting closer to paying off my first VEGA 56. Rest of my cards are still mining Ether.
The Asus B250 is up to 9 cards now (a mixed lot) and I'll be adding a few stragglers to bring it up to 11. I like this board so far even though cable management is near impossible.
Here's a few pics of the mess so far since you guys seem to like my ghetto rigs.
B250 bench testing. Messy AF.. https://imgur.com/gallery/HTGlK
What are you guys mining on your CPU's? I have two R7-1700's and a R5-1600 just sitting idle at the moment. VEGA's are paying off pretty quickly mining XMR and getting closer to paying off my first VEGA 56. Rest of my cards are still mining Ether.
Here's a few pics of the mess so far since you guys seem to like my ghetto rigs.
B250 bench testing. Messy AF.. https://imgur.com/gallery/HTGlK
No. You're still matching 1 GPU to one CPU, which is just not favorable for mining. Something with a tiny ARM core and a barebones motherboard for I/O would be interesting though.
Wow, you are still running on the first Polaris cards ever released. The stock blower seems to be quiet loud though. I like my cards at under 65C for long term and to be able to sell them later on. The cables are a nightmare.
When did you get your Vega? It seems to have good ROI times if I can get it for $660 + tax(CDN) but I wonder about what happens if Monero, the only coin for it drastically falls in profitability. With Polaris you have few other options.
Not worried about Vega long term. It's a mining beast (2000Mh XMR, 44 - 46Mh Ether) per card. Properly tuned they only consume around 175W mining XMR, best mining card by far but finicky to setup.
As for power consumption, as of right now, and likely for few months down the road, Canadian winters will ensure they'll act as electric heaters, and can offset most of its electric costs. Unless you have a huge setup going in your house.
I also thought winter would be a great time for the cards to act as a space heater, but unfortunately I soon realized that the room I set up my mining operation in was right next to our NEST, so now it thinks the temperature of the house is the temperature in the mining room, and either keeps trying to run the AC or won't turn on the heater even when it's cold as shit in the rest of the house. Oops lol.
I also thought winter would be a great time for the cards to act as a space heater, but unfortunately I soon realized that the room I set up my mining operation in was right next to our NEST, so now it thinks the temperature of the house is the temperature in the mining room, and either keeps trying to run the AC or won't turn on the heater even when it's cold as shit in the rest of the house. Oops lol.
Heh... sounds like you should spread out your mining rigs so each room has one, like space heaters
You're lucky. Both of my rooms are on the same circuit.I kinda did that. I only have the two dedicated rigs, but they do a nice job of heating up their respective rooms. Had to spread em out to avoid tripping any circuit breakers.
You're lucky. Both of my rooms are on the same circuit.
This is, sad.
You should be able to set custom heater settings like you can do custom fan settings on GPUs. Maybe AMD can talk to NEST guys about it.
I get XMR, but with Ethereum its more profitable using Polaris. Polaris also does well with Equihash algorithms. I like to think having more algorithms as a safety net in case mining profitability drops significantly on some of them. But maybe its different for you because you had Vega cards early.
As for power consumption, as of right now, and likely for few months down the road, Canadian winters will ensure they'll act as electric heaters, and can offset most of its electric costs. Unless you have a huge setup going in your house.