Monero CPU Mining Hardware Benchmarks & CPU Mining Guide

Monero CPU Mining Hardware Overview

If you are already a seasoned miner, then you understand the importance of knowing what your CPU mining hardware can do. Knowing the performance, as far as Hashrates go is important when choosing your CPU mining hardware, but you also need to take into account the total power (TDP) in watts that the mining hardware uses. Then there is the issue of overclocking. Both GPUs and CPUs have the ability to be overclocked. It really depends on the individual CPU mining hardware chips on whether it is effective and efficient or not. And of course, you have to consider your electricity costs, which mining software you will run on your CPU mining hardware and only then, after taking it all into consideration, can you determine the best choice in CPU mining hardware.

Looking for GPU benchmarks for mining Monero? Read the Guide Here.

So, your options are to simply buy CPU mining hardware and test it out and then keep buying more CPU mining hardware until you find the right set-up to suit your needs, or you can use the data we have compiled to get you started. The table below features most CPUs that are available today. Most have multiple entries with different configurations. Some mining hardware entries even provide the benches on set-ups featuring multiple of the same CPU, as well as multiple CPU set-ups with different brands used in the same set-up.

This guide to Monero CPU Mining Hardware is not intended to be taken literally, but it should be used as a guide when you are trying to decide on which CPU Mining hardware you should buy to effectively mine Monero. This data on CPU mining hardware is especially effective for those times that you find someone selling a used CPU and you need to determine if the price they are offering would make it worth it for you to buy the CPU mining hardware and turn it into a money-making system.

Monero CPU Mining Hardware Introduction

If this mining hardware guide was on Bitcoin, we would not even have a section for CPUs. A CPU, or Central Processing Unit, is your computer’s processor. In the case of Bitcoin, mining with CPU mining hardware is simply not profitable anymore. In the beginning, it was the only way to mine Bitcoin, but as the difficulty rose, so did the need for processing units that could perform more hashes per second. Eventually, Bitcoin moved to GPU mining hardware and eventually to ASIC mining hardware. However, Monero is one of many coins that can still be mined using CPU mining Hardware.

How to get set-up, using your PC to mine Monero is outside of the scope of this CPU mining hardware guide, but look for a complete Monero mining guide to be released on Coinstaker soon. In the meantime, if you want to give it a go, a simple and easy way to do this is to join Minergate. Their set-up is very user friendly and simple.

The table below shows you the CPU mining hardware benchmarks for Monero only. The GPU mining hardware guide is Here. The table will show you the brand of the CPU, the Hashrate in hashes per second, the mining software that was used to test the mining hardware, comments (if any), the operating system and the TDP, or total power used in watts, by the CPU mining hardware. There are many instances when certain information is not available, especially so in the CPU mining hardware, since the total watts used is negligible in most cases. In the CPU Model field, set-ups that use multiple CPUs are denoted by a 2x, 3x, 4x and so on.