Is CPU Mining WORTH IT?

Is it worth it to mine with your CPU? Why are they so much worse than GPU's? Can you actually make any return on investment (ROI)?

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Thank to Tancrid "Tank" Muller for writing the video!
Thanks to Reece Hill for filming the video!
Thank to Rikus Strauss for editing the video!
Executive Producer: Ronald Bodinger & JC Randall

[thomasbaissac]

Who's really behind all of this Scooby?
*Lifts Tai Lopez mask off*
...

BRETT??

[フラットライン-xp]

So AMD really means "Advanced Mining Devices"

[noakberglund]

The Tai Lopez start really cracked me up haha, keep up the good work!

[waseemh]

Loved the video thanks so very much to all you awesome people at UFD Tech

[RagnarokLoW]

I am CPU mining gridcoin. It's definitely not the most profitable coin but it helps scientists on boinc projects which means I'm not burning cpu/GPU power for nothing. CAD $0.0582/kwh for the first 33 kwh/day and then $0.0892/kwh.

[blackwolfecc]

I’ve been mining with Cryptoknight for a few months on my oc’d 1700x. About 50% utilization @ ~400h/s. Don’t seem to notice much of a performance hit and temps with my cooling solution stay around 40c. I don’t get a lot of time to use my pc anymore so when I’m not editing I use it for mining.

Great video!

[GrendalTheBeasty]

Part time miner on nicehash with my gaming rig. I have a single GTX 1080 TI + i7-8700k (4.7GHz all cores) and mine with both when at school/work or asleep. The 8700k doesn't add much, about $1 a day on average (if run 24/7) compared to $5 for the 1080 TI at 80% power (also 24/7 figure), but hey, it more than covers the electricity cost of the whole system. So that's something.

[BassemRashidi]

Brett! You are very entertaining to watch, thank you mate. I just tried mining with my CPU Intel Core i7-7700 @ 3.60GHz and it promised about .14Cents a day lol ! I decided its not worth the risk of putting that load for pennies a day, wouldn't you think? Im currently Exploring the RTX3090 and RX5700 but darn, looks like I have to cash out on my retirement funds to afford them
:( cheers mate!

[ChannleTonyGuin]

back in september, which was when I started my mining adventure and also first introduced to you and your nice hash mining video, after installing nice hash and running the benchmark of which coin would be most profitable for me I saw the option to mine with my cpu. At the time I recently upgraded from an a8-5500 to the R5 1600. The gpu I still have and currently using is the r9 270. I wasnt making that much mining with it but paired with my cpu, the cpu was doing much better then the card by a couple cents more and was able to make me... I cant remeber cause I stopped mining for a while especially with nicehash after the whole hacking situation. sure I could be mining again cause its back up and running, and I also think today or tomorrow nice hash is supposed to be announcing people reimbursement (I had 0.01 BTC mined within 3 months). I had that 0.01 BTC mined too literally the day right before the whole hacked situation. I could've pull that 0.01 out and be able to buy me a pretty damn good gpu, like a 1070. anyways if I ever do get reimbursed then I'm just going to HODL until btc is over 20k again.

[noamA]

I have an i7-8700 and i7-7700 lying around. Should I use them for mining?

[MetatronsCube]

a 1700 at 3.5 gHz gets 420-70 H rate 1.10-30-ish a day(with temps under 60c on stock cooler) only on 8 of the 16 cores/threads. Can still do basic tasks while mining like youtube. Mines slightly over a third of the profits, compared to the RX 480 8g, with the power scaled back and temps at 74c. The rig averages 20-30$ a week just running while I sleep. I have two of these, as well as a R5 1400, and 1300X both with RX 560s(I use them all as a render farm, and send them to the mines at night). A few weeks they were pulling in over 100$.

[arachnia]

The singing got my like. Very informative though. I'm running 2x msi lightning z's right now and also 7700k. I recently turned off cpu mining cuz it just didn't put out enough at stock but still hitting 80c with water cooling. The lightning z's have stabilized much higher average with the mem at 5400. Enough to outweigh the 7700k stock I my rig alone. Running a z270 enthusiast btw. Love your vids, keep up the good work!

[AppleKid]

I am mining ETN with 1 - 4770k,  1 - 8700k,  1 - Kaby Lake i-5,  1 - ASUS 1080ti,  1 - GTX 770, and 3 - MSI Armor 1060 6B.  I am using Awesome Miner but am just getting into it so I do not know how to tweak stuff yet.  I just ordered a Gigabyte Vega 64.

[jadoei]

For 1950x: Disable SMT, and you can overclock it rather high cause mining uses like half of the power that a synthetic load does. Mine is running on 15 cores (last one for feeding my gpus), and I have it overclocked to 4.1Ghz at 1.375V and it uses 125w at 56C (Enermax TR4 360 AIO) while the fans are running at 1000rpm so it is rather silent. It ended up running up to 1420 h/s, for all 16 cores that would be 1515 h/s.

[Jt-iihl]

ryzen 1700 @ 3.7, using nashhash, have CPU utilisation 'Below Normal' Priority ( as its my main PC), gives me a lower 466h/s, but it runs 24/7 and i don't even notice it. I tried High priority utilisation, just kills the system and slows the other GPU mining. - It works for me and just works away in the back ground, no performance loss, cant tell its mining. love it

[sweLogan]

Would like to see a gaming rig build video that when not gaming could mine.

[bosiljkavucenic]

Amazing intro(Tai Lopez part) and nice video. I turn on my R5 1600 on Nicehash at stock(3.4Ghz) with stock cooler it does around 1$ per day. I just add it to my GTX 1050ti to get to 2, 6$-3$. Pretty happy with that.

[makeitreal]

wait!? i have an i7 2600k and it makes 900 H/s but it says it only gives 0, 06 usd in a day???

[noko]

Have 2 1700x, one at 4ghz gets 660h/s and the other at 3.4ghz 500h/s -> ETN. The 4ghz 1700x system also has two Vega FE, both at around 1850h/s. No issue running 8 cores and pushing both Vega FE's using Claymore Crypto miner. CPU affinity is assigned for the real cores. CastXMR and XMRStak will go over 2000h/s with the FEs but they have drift and over a period of time, sometimes rather short, they drift less than 1700h/s -> The Claymore Crypto miner does not have this issue but slightly less hash rate as well but higher in the long run. 3.7kh/s + .66kh/s = 4.36kh/s

The 3.4ghz 1700x system has a Vega 64 LC - using SMRStak for the CPU 7 cores (8 cores affects mining on the GPU so use 7 here) and CastXMR for Cyrpto mining ETN. The Vega 64 is pulling over 2000h/s with the 500 from the cpu = 2.5kh/s

So the 2 1700x is pulling a little bit over 1.1kh/s - more than a 1080 Ti can do by a long shot.

Fast paced, relatively accurate video with a lot of good info.

[MartyUlrich]

I am CPU mining with old smart phones, which obtain for free. The hash rates and returns are pretty low - it varies from 15 - 60 H/s but as I get more phones added the farm, it'll go up and ROI is almost immediate, even if it is tiny. I think I've earned about 10 cents in Monero over the last week...