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What about the threads count?
Now testing on an i7-2600, which is older than the i3 (from 2011!) and it's getting 30-40% greater hashrate.
Meanwhile the E3 is running 20-30% slower.
i3 - 4 threads
E3 - 8 threads
i7- 8 threads
Try http://monerobenchmarks.info/searchCPU.php afaik it's user submited hashrate
Try with i3 - 2 threads, others - 4 threads. It is 2MB of L3 cache per thread for XMR.
Indeed there is a significant hasrate improvement.
i7 went from about 130H/s to 260H/s
E3 went from 75H/s to 250H/s
However the i3 has been reduced from 100H/s to 80H/s.
These are interesting results and not at all what I would have expected. It surprises me that the old i7 can still outperform a new E3.
At current XMR ratio, mining at 250H/s (assuming you rented E3) will give you approximately $14 per month and a huge karma black hole. If you're rather going to pay for electricity by yourself, the profit is just negative (like -$3/mon). That's basically all you need to know about server CPU mining these days.
As you're paying $0.15 per KW/h:
Probably more than 0.15 since you need to consider cooling costs too.
I'm not actually trying to mine, just curious. Seems it's not economical to mine let alone lease a server for mining.
That's what I have said to you in the previous post. Mining is generally not profitable, unless server cost is free like cheating a lot of trial account on cloud services such as DO, Vultr and especially Google cloud and Amazon.
My young daughter sometimes takes construction paper, cuts it into rectangles, draws a picture and number on each one, and tells me she has made new money.
The cryptocurrency scene is pretty much the same thing.
Actually it's only true for shit coins. Bitcoin and etherium are really valuable. Their value lies on their behind technology. However they are open source so they are being cloned to create a lot of shit coins which don't contribute any technology value.
Just realized I had quite a few GridCoin stashed away from going hard on BOINC last summer. Looks like the value jumped in the past few months and I have about $130 saved up.
I feel like that's the virtual equivalent to finding money in your pocket that you didn't know was there.
No they aren't. The 'value' is only what people agree on.
You just described the value of literally everything.
You're right. I don't mean to say that BTC or Etherium is as valuable as what people agree on. It is far less valuable IMO, and so it is currently overvalued.
Hmm..
Does anyone know of mining with an ARM CPU is worth while?
As long as it's ARMv6. They've got the fastest datapath, and are less likely to melt off the board.
Old i7 vs new E3
Apples vs Oranges
I7 is a desktop CPU it has completely different use-case and feature-set then E3.
Except LowEndTalk. We are, by broad scientific consensus, completely without value.
it's probably more profitable to embed some js miners on websites like the pirate bay did over the weekend than actually renting out rigs to mine yourself
Oh that is brilliant!
"Why is LET always make my CPU run at 100%"
Francisco
because you've potato pc. Not LET's fault.
(let's keep this secret, 50-50?)
...that explains why Groupon always pisses off Chrome.
TBH, I was trying to implement something like this few days back but it didn't worked for me. Too bad
You know, when I visit Yahoo Finance with ABP on, it does drive my CPU to 100%...actually, two CPUs to 100%.
I suspect this is because ABP will zoom up to thousands of ads blocked in a matter of minutes...but maybe Yahoo is using my laptop to mine coins to save itself...hmmm...
Kick ABP to the curb. It's hot garbage. You want uBlock.
No I don't.
It exists for Chrome, too.. but whatever.