A good xeon V3/V4 could have earned a lot the first days of zcash mining, when amd/nvidia gpu had lower performance than a high end cpu... (50h/s on a 5960x against 20h/s on the GTX 1080 with the first nicehash cuda miner).
You may buy a QS/ES version on ebay for a reasonable price.
Sorry but this doesen't make sense at all.
1) CPU mining it's totally useless in the crypto scene: density (1 CPU vs 7 VGAs), control (configure them in a VGA farm, good luck), availability (ES, really?), benefits (Not a single one. If you put an heavy load on the CPU, you'll cripple the VGAs performance)
2) High end CPUs are useless in opposition to cheap - decent - ones, due the total absence of a CPU bottleneck in the mining process (Bandwidth)
Bullshit³³ you have no idea but it's okay but stop talking about something you have no idea about instead of giving you bla bla
It would be optimal if you would report your direct experience and gains (cpu vs gpu in the same system, at the same time), because the only one making claims about high end cpu benefits, it's just you
. No offense, but I prefer to talk by considering facts. Proove your statements, sir.
Zcash was better the first day for cpu miners, and so was zcoin. Everyone has a cpu, many more than they need or only need
occasionally, but not as many have a GPU, ever fewer a big GPU or multiple GPUs. Buying a full PC just to CPU mine is a waste
of money but if a cpu is already there, it might as well be put to use. It's similar to gamers, they already have the gpu power so they
should all be mining when not gaming.
With the state of GPU mining right now your not standing on very firm ground.
dga (a talented dev) has a lot of profits with cpu mining monero at the beginning: he rented amazon aws:
https://da-data.blogspot.fr/2014/08/minting-money-with-monero-and-cpu.htmlThere are some coins dedicated to cpu mining (riecoin, xmg ...).
Cpu mining is still interesting for xmr and some rare case. I don't talk about making a cpu farms like gpu farms but for someone with home/office rigs, you will take advantage of the high end cpu for your regular use and can pay back the cpu with mining.
On ebay you can have a used xeon E5 V3 or V4, ES or QS at a very reasonable price (400-1200 $) which will give you xmr hashrate between 600-1000 h/s.
You add gpu and you have a powerfull workstation capable of mining as well as gaming/video/computing/...