I’ve been doing some research on crypto mining, and my results have been too much and too little at the same time. My son and I thought maybe we would start mining as a group hobby but I don’t know where to start. I hope the community can give some much needed assistance.
1. I have 2 Xeon servers older ( 7 Yearsish ) but functional previously Minecraft servers. Given power usage is it a good idea to attempt mining on these? I was looking At adding low cost GPUs but wasn’t sure of viability.
2. I have a I7 with an R7 290x that I had planned on using for light gaming, but it’s an option. I only ask because many of the articles talk about multiple 1080s so I wasn’t sure where this fell..
3. Currency? From my research I was thinking Litecoin or one of the smaller coins. But with more reading it just made the rabbit hole very deep.
Thanks in advance. A few things the machines are all flavors of Windows, and the servers have the advantage of already being racked in a cool place. The I7 would require a new location.
TheDon
1. I have 2 Xeon servers older ( 7 Yearsish ) but functional previously Minecraft servers. Given power usage is it a good idea to attempt mining on these? I was looking At adding low cost GPUs but wasn’t sure of viability.
2. I have a I7 with an R7 290x that I had planned on using for light gaming, but it’s an option. I only ask because many of the articles talk about multiple 1080s so I wasn’t sure where this fell..
3. Currency? From my research I was thinking Litecoin or one of the smaller coins. But with more reading it just made the rabbit hole very deep.
Thanks in advance. A few things the machines are all flavors of Windows, and the servers have the advantage of already being racked in a cool place. The I7 would require a new location.
TheDon