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how? >I paid $150/chip + $450 host (thanks ebay) excluding ram. E7-8880v4 are $600 used each. Quad core mobos are not cheap, ranked ram is not cheap. Even if
by what-the-grump 6y ago
how?
>I paid $150/chip + $450 host (thanks ebay) excluding ram.
E7-8880v4 are $600 used each. Quad core mobos are not cheap, ranked ram is not cheap. Even if you pulled these from a vendor going out of business the bit coin mining crews would suck these up in heartbeat.
Where are you getting your prices?
- nullc 6y agoEbay. Hunt harder (and best offer harder). :) E7 CPUs sell absurdly cheap at times because it can be a bit hard to find compatible systems. (similarly, quad socket systems with slow or no cpus go cheap from people that don't know much about them) > ranked ram is not cheap. Yes, ram for quad socket hosts it adds up, since you need at least 2-8 dimms per socket for full memory bandwidth (which was why I explicitly pointed out that I left it out). On the plus side, those systems tend to have a lot of dimm sockets so you can use lower capacity dimms. > bit coin mining crews nah, not useful for that.