What’s the best setup to mine Monero while keeping it as a space heater for the winter?
3900(x)'s are typically the best value for mining monero, occasionally 3600(x)'s or 3950x. The rest of the system can be built for almost as cheap as you can get except for some exceptions. Good ram (samsung b-die is popular) can be worth searching ebay for, especially with the higher end cpus since it will impact a larger hashrate. Be careful going too cheap with the motherboard, some motherboards perform quite a bit worse or don’t have quality components to support the high power cpu’s and will break (speaking from several instances of experience). You may want to invest in more efficient power supplies like gold rated to save on electric. You can use a flash drive for storage as it doesn’t impact hashrate.
If you want to generate heat, go for higher voltage overclocks (you will need larger coolers to disperse the heat).
I live in cold environment so heat will disperse, got any case recommendations for keeping it compact and elegant? For an apartment
I’m guessing your referring to amd and we don’t have an electric bill so I could save on a lower rating
You probably can skip spending money on cases and build your rigs in a wire shelf or milk crakes or cardboard boxes or something
That’s very true, I haven’t built a pc in years is pc part picker still the go to for part compatibility?
I haven’t used pcpp for a while, but it’s still the only thing I hear about. Compatibility isn’t very complicated thankfully.
If you want to generate heat, go for higher voltage overclocks (you will need larger coolers to disperse the heat).
Probably best to clock optimally for XMR/watt to minimize net heating cost. Either keep it on for longer per day or get a 2nd rig for more total heat.
They luckily don’t pay for electric
