Can you make money using Threadripper for mining?

[AlienALX]

ROI times are just so high in a market that's son unstable, it's just not worth the investment.

I think this is more about more casual mining, just when the system isn't in use. It's AMD trying to further justify their threadripper pricing to prosumers

TR pricing is fine. Absolutely fine. Especially when compared to the competition.

People just don't want or need CPUs this fast unless they are for a task. A pal of mine wrote an article in a mag a few months back when TR launched, titled "Now that we have all these cores what are we going to do with them?". And he's kinda right. Unless you really put seriously heavy use on your rig you just don't need them.

I love Ryzen and I love TR, but dropping a 16/32 CPU into a market where we were on 4 cores was kinda daft. Especially given that 99% of PC gamers don't do anything else with their rig. The price was always fantastic, don't get me wrong, but I have heard rumours TR just isn't selling so well. Which is probably due in part to the insane board prices which make some X299 boards look cheap.

That was the trade off. Easy, cheap CPU to make is TR, but the board needs a whacking great socket.

Until they can do something about that and RAM prices drop (and Ryzen is so strongly dependent on RAM performance and speed) they just won't sell.

If TR boards weren't so expensive, coupled with the ridiculous cost of RAM (and fast RAM at that, I already had quad channel DDR4 but only 2133) I would have bought one. But as it stood I just couldn't do it. Instead I just whacked a 14/28 Intel into a £100 board and used my RAM.

 

[Layer Cakes]

TR pricing is fine. Absolutely fine. Especially when compared to the competition.

People just don't want or need CPUs this fast unless they are for a task. A pal of mine wrote an article in a mag a few months back when TR launched, titled "Now that we have all these cores what are we going to do with them?". And he's kinda right. Unless you really put seriously heavy use on your rig you just don't need them.

I love Ryzen and I love TR, but dropping a 16/32 CPU into a market where we were on 4 cores was kinda daft. Especially given that 99% of PC gamers don't do anything else with their rig. The price was always fantastic, don't get me wrong, but I have heard rumours TR just isn't selling so well. Which is probably due in part to the insane board prices which make some X299 boards look cheap.

That was the trade off. Easy, cheap CPU to make is TR, but the board needs a whacking great socket.

Until they can do something about that and RAM prices drop (and Ryzen is so strongly dependent on RAM performance and speed) they just won't sell.

If TR boards weren't so expensive, coupled with the ridiculous cost of RAM (and fast RAM at that, I already had quad channel DDR4 but only 2133) I would have bought one. But as it stood I just couldn't do it. Instead I just whacked a 14/28 Intel into a £100 board and used my RAM.

This is very true. I did actually briefly look in to threadripper as an upgrade for my aging x79 rendering system. Ended up getting a blinder of deal on an X299 setup instead. So no idea what AMD are up to with these statements. I don't think anyone in there right mind is going to go out and buy a new TR to start mining.

 

[SPS]

Good article, thanks for the info Mark.

AMD would be stupid not to advertise TR for mining, considering miners just buy Pentiums without considering CPU mining. AMD is a business and a business needs money. The more funding AMD gets, the better for everyone.