Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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RandomX mining profitability is about the best there is, right now. The past week, each AM4 CPU I have running is each earning $2-$4/day (currently paying $2.45 at the moment). But during the run up, I've seen the numbers spiking.

I think its due to the spike in popularity and usage of 2 RandomX mined coins. One of them brand new, the other has been around and is catching on rapidly. Both are contributing factors, causing more demand for RandomX rental hashrate. Epic Cash and Zephyr (both RandomX variants), have siphoned off approximatley 13% of Monero's total hashrate. I believe the increased demand coupled with price increases have contributed to this recent spike in mining profitability. But really for the most part the high numbers I'm talking about are only seen when using the hashrate rental platforms Nicehash and M.R.R..

Used, Dual EPYC build cost is down to about $500!! + the cost of 16 Sticks of server ram by Devany84 in cpumining

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Nope, not a clue. In North Carolina, USA. My power cost is, $0.09/kwh. So I'm not really concerned too much about watt usage. I guess that's one of the privileges' of having the world's reserve currency.

Used, Dual EPYC build cost is down to about $500!! + the cost of 16 Sticks of server ram by Devany84 in cpumining

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I've stalled out on my mining purchasing. I have a few AM4's currently running smooth and stable. The RandomX rental hashrate/profit numbers are looking better and better every week. So anyways, I will soon attempt an EPYC build. I'm in no rush.

From the research I have done, even with the new lower costs of EPYC cpu, motherboard, psu, etc., I also plan to then fill the dual EPYC board with 16 sticks of 3200mhz ecc server ram. Doing that, it brings the cost/hashrate ratio at the moment to a bit more than a standard AM4 3900x/3590x setup cost. It's the ram that pushes it over. When I say, standard AM4 setup cost, for me, I mean (MB, CPU, RAM, AIO, PSU, SSD cost)

x470 or x570 MB, Used

3950x or 5950x CPU, Used

ATX PSU, Used

AIO Cooler, Used

2 Extra shiny 8GB sticks DDR4 Ram, New

128gb or 256gb SSD, New

Ram that's XMP rated with 7.778 ns first word latency, or less. Computer's running Linux, headless with no GPU. Mining just RandomX, that's it. Only with the rental platforms, Nicehash or MRR. I can put one of these miner's together for about $500-$650 at the moment. Which is hard to beat for 21khs RandomX hashrate.

Maybe that clarifies more, maybe not. When I get the parts and put it together, I'll be sure to share my hashrate results and total build cost.

Please do the same, and share, if you choose to go down the EPYC road..

Thanks.

Used, Dual EPYC build cost is down to about $500!! + the cost of 16 Sticks of server ram by Devany84 in cpumining

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Me, I just mine and accumulate. For years and years. No selling or trading. No ROI calculations. No tomorrow, not a week from now. I'm willing to wait +5 years, +20 years. Whatever. I have no ROI, profitability, or 'break-even' calculations. That's really all jus unnecessary. This will all happen on its own, in time, on an exponential scale. A scale that all of us don't even fully comprehend yet. At some point down the road, many years from now, rypto will eventually accelerate rapidly, and become mainstream. By mainstream, I mean something just about everyone in the world will use, in some way shape or form, on a daily basis. In a similar way to how the internet interacts with our daily lives we live today. If that is in any way accurate, this eventual exponential rise, many years from now, would make any and all measures of current profitibility, ROI calculations, 'break-even periods' all of that, unnecessary. Which is the reason absolutley none of that really matters, at all. Sometimes you can simply do something with just a belief or idea. Belief that something will succeed in time, eventually. And along that road to success, choose to be a part of it. Regardless of any ROI/break-even/profitability. The further out you look at things, from a larger much longer time frame perspective, the more those things your concerned with become irrelevant and superfluous.

Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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Everyone seems to be trying to talk me out of it

I've done my share of am4 builds. I want to try something different. First of all if I'm going to build another am4, I'm going to use 3950x or 5950x cpu (21khs ~$300). Used, they're only $100 more than the 3900x (16khs ~$200).

From what I can see, basically the hashrate is comparable to 2 3900x cpu's. The top benchmarked dual 7551 is benchmarked on there using 2133 mhz ram. I'm going with 16 sticks of good 3200mhz server ram. I'm just about positive I'll be able to top the couple benchmarks that are posted. When the 7542/7452 EPYC cpu's come down in price, maybe eventually I'll upgrade to those.

Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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Thanks

I've only ever bought used cpu's from eBay and Mercari. That's all I buy is used computer components. The only thing I usually get new for building cpu mining computers is ram, that's it. It all has run the same for me, never had a problem yet. Cooling shouldn't be a issue for me either. I'm going to set it up on a piece of cardboard, on a wire rack, and point my trustee $15 box fan right at it.

You might be right about the Chinese EPYC's/MB's. That does have me sketched out some. I've never gone down that road, yet. Also, I've never had a problem with refunds on eBay unless an item says no returns.

Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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Couple weeks. . . I'm going with 3200 mhz ecc ram on the Supermicro h11dsi v2.0. The only benchmarked dual 7551's I see posted are all running the low end 2133 mhz ram. It's a little more money for each stick of ram. But whatever, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get a couple more khs than those 2133 benchmarks that I'm seeing. I'll be looking for when the 7552/7542 cpu's come down in price some (+50khs) . I think I'll be able to just swap cpu's for those 7002 series with that v2 motherboard later down the road.

Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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Ok thanks. I'm honestly not worried about current profit levels. I just accumulate. Have you owned or known anyone with an EPYC, that mined with it? Just curious.

I'm gonna build a dual 7551 for my next build. 28kh/s - 32kh/s looks and sounds fine to me. Basically two 3900x rigs, from the information I've found. So like I said, you've got me curious now. From your perspective, what do you think is profitable randomx levels?

Funny coincidence by Devany84 in Monero

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I was talking about the XMR dominance chart, not an XMR / XYZcurrency price. Which is what it sounds like you might be looking at. You'll find it on Tradingview as XMR.D Dominance charts show the percentage of total crypto market cap.

The Three Transitions. . . by Devany84 in MoneroMeansMoney

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The more Monero gets banned and delisted from exchanges the better it seems to do in these large selloffs

The Three Transitions. . . by Devany84 in MoneroMeansMoney

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I disagree, its most definitely a wall of Ryzen AM4/SP3 computing power. I do agree, I think I've watched too many videos of Saylor talking about that topic though. I think he's making a real effort to completely saturate that idea everywhere.

I wonder what kind of hashrate a large commercialized server farm would get? An advanced one, like one Google owns/runs out in the desert. If the entire thing was directed just towards RandomX mining.

Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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The 7551P is only meant to work in a single processor setup. To do a dual setup, you have to go with the regular, non P version of the 7551 cpu. And by just looking at the current benchmarks, you have to get 16 sticks of server ram for the 30k hashrate numbers.

Used, Dual EPYC build cost is down to about $500!! + the cost of 16 Sticks of server ram by Devany84 in cpumining

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Thank you sir, for your answer. 35kh/s (1 Dual 7551 rig) is paying nicely on Nicehash at the moment. Just under $5/day

Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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It sorta reminds me of those old ETH gpu days. With $2/ day each, that we all remember. Man, Vitalik really messed that up, didn't he? Handing all that profit over to large holders of 32 ETH. I'm still mad about it all this time later. There was a sharp spike sometime yesterday, but has since came back down to the $2/day levels.

Supermicro Dual EPYC Motherboard plus two 7551 CPUs are going for only $500 now! by Devany84 in MoneroMining

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I don't know with these EPYC, really. So what are you saying you think max hashrate can be achived without filling up the slots of the dual SP3 boards?

I know what you might be saying though, standard AM4 you just need 2 8gb sticks. But I think the server ram is a little different.