With
Intel Core i7-5960X ( around 1000$ ) you can mine
XMR , with a speed of
265-270 H/s if you have a free electricity it can earn you around
20$ a month , 240$ a year
Estimated ROI is : around 5 years
xxcsu, that hash rate seems low for that CPU. I have seen several benchmarks where 2nd and 3rd gen regular or K series are hashing 330-440 M/h on Monero. I originally thought that since the benchmark source was dated (no newer CPUs or GPUs) that some kind of recent event may have resulted in reduced H/s on Monero, but when I plot my 2600K CPU against what is on this chart, it is actually pretty close to the range at about 125-150 H/s.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MI-ic0Os25hgGUImW54sUIjZY_pUNQNa_W8Se5pRGBs/edit#gid=0I'm curious if you have tried experimenting with things such as the # or cores option in MinerGate. At least on my system, when I run it at what shows as 8 cores, I only get about 110-120 but if I reduce it to 4, I am in the 140-150 range, so a decent % better. I noticed your photo looks like you have all 16 (called cores but actually threads I believe) mining. So wondering if you have tried going with 8 to see if you get a similar bump.
I am about to build a system with an i7-6800k and expecting/hoping to get at least 500 H/s on XMR, but if my results are closer to what you are getting with a similar CPU, I might be in for a disappointment. Luckily, I got it for free so if it's really only going to hash about 300, I will probably re-purpose it to build my next personal PC and opt for a much cheaper CPU for mining.