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I am building a CPU mining build using some of the current parts I already have. I already have the motherboard, hard drive, and memory. My main concern is keeping this system cool as it will be running for 24 hours a day. Below is the PC Part Picker link. Is there anything here that I am missing? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dxQkpb

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Just now, Mooshi said:

Mining and budget....diet soda, healthy fried food..does not compute.

I'm confused... 

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6 minutes ago, TheCherryKing said:

I'm confused... 

Waste of money.

You will get more money by buying lottery tickets, or burning your $20 bills to heat your home.

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15 minutes ago, TheCherryKing said:

I am building a CPU mining build using some of the current parts I already have. I already have the motherboard, hard drive, and memory. My main concern is keeping this system cool as it will be running for 24 hours a day. Below is the PC Part Picker link. Is there anything here that I am missing? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/dxQkpb

CPU aren't good at mining, did you pull a rackmount from a dumpster server or something?

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Just now, Streetguru said:

CPU aren't good at mining, did you pull a rackmount from a dumpster server or something?

No

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Just now, TheCherryKing said:

No

Did you actually buy all of those parts?

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CPU mining won't get you anywhere

but if you must do it

mining doesn't need ram

or pci lanes

or storage space

or ghz

it needs raw power

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Just now, TheCherryKing said:

Some of them.

Should probably just sell them to someone as a server, should make as much money as CPU mining would over 10 years if you got like the motherboard/RAM for free.

You can also put it together and rent it out, you'll have to look into how profitable that is though, but mining isn't going to be worth it.

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Just now, LtStaffel said:

CPU mining won't get you anywhere

but if you must do it

mining doesn't need ram

or pci lanes

or storage space

or ghz

it needs raw power

I already have the RAM and the hard drive. Two 12-Core CPU's are raw power.

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2 minutes ago, TheCherryKing said:

I already have the RAM and the hard drive. Two 12-Core CPU's are raw power.

CPUs are many many orders of magnitude slower than GPU when it comes to mining. That's just etherium though, but it's about the same story everywhere.

Some numbers - running ethminer on my CPU gives me a hashrate of 0.248 megahashes per second (MH/s). For comparison, each of my over-clocked AMD R9 390X GPUs gives me a hashrate of about 31.58 MH/s. My GPU gives me 127x the hashrate of my CPU. It is a lowish end CPU AMD FX(tm)-6350 6 core processor and with motherboard + CPU + disk drive + fans consumes about 200 Watts, or 4.8 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per day.

What did you see that made you think CPU mining was good?

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5 minutes ago, TheCherryKing said:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439874.0

Looks like all of the info related to that is from 2014, dunno if it still applies.

You could try monero, but overall CPU mining is worthless
https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/guides/how-to-mine-monero/

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