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Captain_Yuri said:

Cryptominers Target AMD Ryzen CPUs for Their Big L3 Caches

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cryptominers-target-amd-ryzen-cpus-for-their-big-l3-caches

"AMD's Zen 3 mainstream processors, such as the Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X, feature up to 64MB of L3 cache. Based on information from the Raptoreum Mining Profitability Calculator, the Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X offer up to 4,247 h/s and 3,557 h/s, respectively. The first could net you 205 Raptoreum a day, while the latter delivers up to 172. At $0.0220255 per Raptoreum and utilizing an energy cost of $0.12/kWh, a Ryzen 9 5950X makes around $4.16 a day, while a Ryzen 9 5900X puts in a respectable $3.43. That means the Ryzen 9 5950X ($739) practically pays for itself in 178 days and the Ryzen 9 5900X ($524) in about 153 days. "

That Raptoreum name was new to me and I checked: it's barely one month old. It's way too soon to get worried about it given that we don't know if this new BS will be one of the successful cryptos or if it will disappear before the year ends. Remember the vrypto that used storage to work? We no longer hear about it and neither prices nor availability were affected by it... at least not much.

Still, it sucks that they're now also going after CPUs after.

Captain_Yuri said:

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ASUS B660 Motherboard Leak Suggests Mainstream Platform Limited To PCIe Gen 4, No PCIe Gen 5 Support

https://wccftech.com/asus-b660-motherboard-leak-suggests-mainstream-platform-limited-to-pcie-gen-4-no-pcie-gen-5-support/

Kinda lame but it makes sense for cheaper boards to be limited to Gen 4.

It's a shame to not get all the features given the short lifespan those cards will have (one extra CPU release and then Intel will likely move to a new socket as usual).

But yeah, PCIe 4.0 and DDR4 will lower the cost of those motherboards, making them a good option for mid and low end customers that will likely use them with a 12600(K) or lower type of CPU.