The CryptoMining PC Hardware Thread

[Fr33Th1nk3r]

So basically there's not much profit unless I have dozens of computers farming with a specific setup and I shouldn't waste my time then?

 

[Cazalan]

Looks like all the scrypt based currencies have fallen quite a bit recently.

If I'm filling in the charts right a 280x would make less than $2/month profit now. Ouch!

 

[Benevolence]

For those who hopped on the bandwagon early, a 280 or 290x could have earned you $300 a month at the beginning of the year.
Given all of the companies developing their own ASIC farms (I saw one which consisted of 4 million clustered ASIC boards), this is one trend which was started grass-roots and supported by the community, but now is being taken over by those who can afford the investment (the super wealthy).

 

[Benevolence]

BUT if you're looking for a way to turn your hardware specs into pure profitability, get into something like Video Editing (like me!) or CAD, where the time you save in computation equates to real $$$.

 

[Cazalan]

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/35013-first-products-based-on-20nm-chips-ship-this-week

KnCMiner Neptune - 1440 cores using 20nm TSMC
5xNeptune - 3TH/s @ 2.1KW

Works out to about 2 grand a month.

 

[Benevolence]

Cazalan, is there another link? WOT and Chrome both flagged your link as having malware/phishing.

 

[Cazalan]

Cazalan, is there another link? WOT and Chrome both flagged your link as having malware/phishing.

The company website.

https://www.kncminer.com/news/news-69


I think that was a bogus flagging myself. If you click on the "why was this site blocked" it reported 0 occurrences of both malware and phishing.

 

[Benevolence]

I figured it was a false positive, certainly not blaming you.

 

[asrdhery]

I don't see the reason to mine on the CPU, as mention above it simply isn't worth it.

 

[Arterburn]

I think it's false. I don't hope so.

 

[Benevolence]

Here lies the end user profitability of PC hardware for Crypto mining... May it rest in a million distributed and highly encrypted pieces...
As stated above, CPU mining won't recover your power bills. The same is true for GPU mining. On the plus side, AMD has posted a $500 discount on their flagship GPUs. I suppose the supply overshot the demand by a large margin, since no one is using these to mine anymore.

 

[ItsAllNew]

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[Cazalan]

The early bird catches the worm.

The systems could be used for more worthwhile projects like Folding at Home. I just wish there was a way to classify them as charitable contributions and deduct some of it from your taxes.

 

[Benevolence]

FAH is great, there's also a ton of other donated processing applications like SETI. I haven't heard much about FAH since 2012, so I wonder what they're up to recently... Otherwise, it's fun to watch protein chains come together on my screen saver!

 

[Baralis]

FAH is great, there's also a ton of other donated processing applications like SETI. I haven't heard much about FAH since 2012, so I wonder what they're up to recently... Otherwise, it's fun to watch protein chains come together on my screen saver!

You can now have the best of both worlds, FAH and cryptocurrency http://www.foldingcoin.net/.

 

[Benevolence]

HAHAHAHA brilliant!
So... You do folding on your bad-A** gaming computer to earn folding coins which can be redeemed for actual videogames or in-game items... BRILLIANT!!! Now all those overkill gaming machines can actually be put to good work, if this goes viral I'd guess we'd see some real advances in modern medicine!
I can see the logos now "CURE CANCER - EARN VIDEO GAMES!"

 

[bnmjk]

I saw some tables in another thread showing various systems ... can one of you guys find it and put it here?

 

[JaymanHD]

Not even worth it for the time spent working on it. It is a pain because you only get a small amount while trying to pay for the cards you bought and electricity. You should also know that crypto mining pushes the card to the limits and you might kill some of them along the way.

 

[Reynod]

Yes it sure looks like the crypto adventure might be over.

 

[cvnhmin]

I find CPU mining isn't worth it for the performance vs power used, at least in the current scrypt mining.