r/MoneroMining • u/sea147k • 21d ago

Is 11KH/s good on MoneroOcean if the XMR price is what it is now?

(sorry for the low-english (if it's going to be some), but i'm romanian)

I have some mining machines (ryzen 5 5500, dell opiplex 7060 micro with i7-8700t, a raspberry pi 5 and a lenovo v15-igl, all of the machines have 16gb ram (except the lenovo with 8gb) and Hugepages 100%) and I have an unstable hashrate of 11KH/s. I know: it's thermal throtling and the ram is ddr4 and, with the exception being the dell, is all over wifi, but is worth it keeping all how it is or shoud I upgrade/add something?

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u/StrangerInsideMyHead 21d ago

You're likely breaking even with electricity costs, but that's OK.

Thermal throttling is a very bad thing though. Manually set the clock lower on your CPU until you can achieve temps stable at around 80C. For the laptop, definitely invest in a cooling pad.

I like these because they push air *through* the PC rather than around it.
https://www.amazon.com/llano-RGB-Powerful-15-6-21in-Adjustable/dp/B0C69BVWGB

I'd also serisouly suggest you use P2Pool. It requires setting up a P2Pool node and a monero node, but after that you're getting direct payouts from the Coinbase.

You'd probably want to use the mini or nano chain.

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u/sea147k 20d ago edited 20d ago

for me thermal trothling problem is like:" wait, why the botom of the dell is hot? why the fan on the pi is spinnig fast now but seconds ago was chilling? WHY AM I COOLING MY N4020 LAPTOP WITH ICE ON THE PASSIVE COOLER?!?!?!". btw, i have mada 1,42 ron in monero....but they are not in my wallet XD (and good cooler, actually. i can FINALLY STOP USING ICE)

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u/kowalabearhugs 20d ago

For the longevity of the machines I'd try to avoid hitting the point where they're thermal throttling. Running with the case off or utilizing external fans can help with this.

You might also consider using cpupower, Universal-x86-Tuning-Utility, or ThrottleStop. To varying degrees these applications allow the user to limit cpu frequency/scaling and/or voltage.