Selling my 3950x rig, considering finally building a hobby farm. In the past microcenter had great deals on ryzen 3600/mobo combos and am4 mobos for 3900x’s were cheap, but now the bundles are replaced with less efficient 5600x’s and am4 mobos are more expensive than the past. Are 3900x rigs still the value king? are the newer budget intel cpus any good? Curious to hear what people think.
For me, I’m mining at a loss on a small scale. Even though I’d love to get a proper rig set up, the price of hardware is too high to ever get an ROI worth investing in - that is compared to simply buying the XMR. So I’ll continue putting XMRig on any device that can run it, and have old laptops ticking away just to support the network in a small way. Would still be interested in updates on your rig, and if XMR moons, I’ll put it right back into a mining rig! Sidenoet, it’s possibly worth cross-linking this community to r/moneromining as there’s an active community there. Useful to have up to date info on pools, difficulty, rigs etc.