Actually, the AMD 3rd gen ryzens make money. I make about $300 a month with ten 3rd gen ryzens (3XXX series amd cpu: two 3600, three 3600X, one 3800X, one 3900X, one 3900XT, one 3950X, and one 3960X) on RandomX, M7M, RandonSFX, and Verushash... though for randomx, they work best when matched with 32gb of DDR4-3200. the most cost effect cpu is the 3600.. which you can make your money back on the cpu alone in about 100 days.
the only times i have issues is when i gpu mine with TRM... TRM doesn't like to initialize gpus when CPU is under load from cpu mining. Phoenix miner, and Lolminer have no issues when cpu mining also.
If you think earning cents with it is good then by all means continue. I have a ryzen 3600 too, last time i saw its profitability which was 3 days ago, it made 0 cents a day.
https://whattomine.com/coins/101-xmr-randomx?hr=6800.0&p=200.0&fee=2&cost=0.1&hcost=0.0&commit=CalculateI can get it to burn 100 watts not 200
the trick to a good mix is use the cpu set volts to 1.05 and mine with 1 good card an amd 5700
look at the miner wattage with no mining at all
then look at watts just the card mining
then look at the wattage with the cpu and the one card mining.
any amd below rig with 1 card or 2 cards makes more money mining with xmd on the cpu
3600 cpu and 1 amd 5700 card
3700 cpu and 1 "
3800 cpu and 1 "
3900 cpu and 1 "
3950 cpu and 1 "
3960 cpu and 1 "
3970 cpu and 1 "
I have tested all above.
I have 5 3900 rigs with 1 card
I have a 3970 rig with 1 card
I have a 3960 rig with 1 card