Anyone with a Opteron CPU system?

[suchamoneypit]

Im really curious of getting some up to date values on the hashrate of a Opteron 6172 or any other Opteron CPU mining Cryptonight mining something like Monero.

 

Easy and quick test would be to download a program called Minergate, and then mining XMR (Monero) and reporting your average hashrate after a minute. 

 

Anyone with a working Opteron system who could provide me some direct info on that would be much appreciate!

[You_are_a_cunt]

It's an ancient CPU that is EASILY overtaken by anything from the last couple years

[SupaKomputa]

why you want cpu mining? its not worth it i think.

[suchamoneypit]

10 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

It's an ancient CPU that is EASILY overtaken by anything from the last couple years

the fact that you can have a quad socket system, makes them of interest. They could be efficient crypto miners if the price and performance is right. We are talking 48 cores. Could make a good system to then add GPUs to.

 

10 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

why you want cpu mining? its not worth it i think.

Cryptonight algorithm coins such as Monero can be efficiently mined by CPUs.

[88pockets]

i would think the TDP of the chips would eat into your profits, especially if running server CPUs that are out of date

[SupaKomputa]

48 2.1ghz core with 80watt x4 power, are you sure its effective?

its a 45nm cpu, what good is the core count if the ipc is bad, plus no hyperthreading.

i think a dual 2670 can overtake it. 16 core 32 threads at 3.3ghz.

around the same tdp total.

[Straxxus]

I've actually got a miner with opterons in it, however they are newer chips than the 6172 you reference. I have a dual socket board with 2 opteron 6380 chips that hash cryptonight at about 525h/s per chip. The tdp on these chips is about 125w a piece, so I think it's worth it for a basic rig if you can get the rest of the parts cheap enough. I would also recommend going with a dual socket board just so you can get some extra pcie slots for GPU mining.

[suchamoneypit]

6 hours ago, Straxxus said:

I've actually got a miner with opterons in it, however they are newer chips than the 6172 you reference. I have a dual socket board with 2 opteron 6380 chips that hash cryptonight at about 525h/s per chip. The tdp on these chips is about 125w a piece, so I think it's worth it for a basic rig if you can get the rest of the parts cheap enough. I would also recommend going with a dual socket board just so you can get some extra pcie slots for GPU mining.

525H/s per chip and only 125W each? Thats pretty good. What did you pay for the system or CPUs?

 

Your reply is exactly what i was curious about, thank you.

[suchamoneypit]

7 hours ago, Straxxus said:

I've actually got a miner with opterons in it, however they are newer chips than the 6172 you reference. I have a dual socket board with 2 opteron 6380 chips that hash cryptonight at about 525h/s per chip. The tdp on these chips is about 125w a piece, so I think it's worth it for a basic rig if you can get the rest of the parts cheap enough. I would also recommend going with a dual socket board just so you can get some extra pcie slots for GPU mining.

What OS and software are you using to mine?

[Straxxus]

4 hours ago, suchamoneypit said:

What OS and software are you using to mine?

I'm using windows 10 pro as the os (board activated without a key when I tried it lol) and xmr-stak for a miner. I got the chips for $100 a piece off eBay, and the board for $150. I'm also running 8x1gb sticks of ram because that's what was cheap.

 

The board I have is a super micro h8dgi-f which is a dual socket board with 6 pcie slots. I also have some assorted gpus in there totalling 3.2khs on cryptonight pulling about 850w from the wall.