AMD CPU is also being targeted? A folk expert uses X370GT7 & R580 to pair CPU to mine dual

After the "second mining craze" that suddenly started in Q2, almost all A cards including N cards were snatched away, and the prices rose even more outrageously. Take the newly released RX580 8GB version of AMD as an example. When it was launched, the target was GTRX1060, with a price of 1899~1999 yuan, but today's quotation is 3499~3599 yuan, a price increase of 80%!
Just when everyone was struggling with graphics cards, a rumor came out that "RYZEN processors are also very good at mining", which surprised us! Could it be that mining has ruined graphics cards and is now ruining processors?

In order to verify this rumor, Biostar specially invited the folk master "Shoupihu Laboratory" to test whether the CPU can mine and how to mine. Let's take a look at the test results sent back by "Shoupihu Laboratory":
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According to this statement, we also tried the actual test of "Ryzen mining shocking the world". Ryzen AMD Ryzen 7 1700X eight-core sixteen-thread Ryzen sub-flagship processor, which uses the new 14nm process, the thermal power consumption is controlled at 95W, and the CPU main frequency of the processor is 3.4GHz, supporting turbo frequency 3.8GHz. The previously tested R7 1700X has strong gaming performance. The birth of AMD Ryzen processors has finally overturned Intel's monopoly in the past decade, giving consumers another choice. The annoying thing is that we only need to consider whether to choose i5 or i7 before, but now we need to first consider whether to buy Ryzen or Core.

However, for consumers, the emergence of Ryzen also has excellent news. The two motherboard chipsets B350/X370 released with Ryzen are cross-border upgrades in comparison, especially the X370 motherboard. The X370 is the highest specification, replacing the old 990FX and A88X chipsets, providing 4 SATA 6Gbps (RAID 0/1/10), 2 SATA Express, 2 USB 3.1 Gen.2, 6 USB 3.0, 6 USB 2.0, 8 PCI-E 2.0 (for expansion), supporting overclocking and dual-card SLI/CF (x8+x8).
The motherboard we chose for this test is Biostar Technology's latest Racing series X370GT7 motherboard. The main color design of Biostar's new series is derived from the black and white flag elements of racing cars, bringing a different feeling. This X370GT7 has an outstanding cost-effectiveness and is currently priced at 1,699 yuan on JD.

The motherboard and CPU have always been inseparable. Since Ryzen is chosen as the processing core, an X370 motherboard must be its best vehicle. The protagonist of our article today is the Biostar X370GT7, which continues the Racing lineage and has the same totem as the previous products in the same series. In order to see the specifications of this motherboard more clearly, a close-up photo of the CPU power supply is taken for everyone. It can be clearly seen that this motherboard has a very fierce design for CPU overclocking. The 12-phase pure digital power supply design allows the CPU to obtain more stable and pure power. It comes standard with a very thick heat sink, fully enclosed high-end ferrite inductors and blackened all-solid capacitors.

This motherboard from Biostar uses the AMD X370 chipset, which stably supports the operation of the full range of RAZEN processors. The CPU power supply is also very sufficient, which is rare in AMD platform motherboards such as X370. The memory supports four DDR4 modules running simultaneously. There is also a touch-screen DIY control panel next to the memory to provide convenience for overclocking players.

There is also a very special design on the Racing X370GT7. There is a row of four touch-sensitive easy-to-operate buttons on the outside of the memory slot, including power on, restart, exercise and energy saving. The other three buttons are fine, but as for the SPORT button of the X370 chipset, I guess using it can make the 1700X accelerate for a while!

In terms of expansion slots, three PCI-E graphics card slots, three PCI-E X1 expansion slots, and an M.2 high-speed hard drive interface are also indispensable. The three PCI-E X16 interfaces of this motherboard meet the needs of various players, and can well support CFX and SLI graphics card parallel technology.

Racing X370GT7 is equipped with six SATA3.0 interfaces that support multi-mode RAID. There is a multi-function Debug digital display light next to the interface. It displays the corresponding self-test numbers when the computer is turned on, and displays the CPU temperature in real time after the computer starts normally. Each jumper group on the motherboard has anti-fool protection.

The back interface provides a PS/2 port, four USB 3.0, and a pair of USB3.1, one of which is a Type-C Thunderbolt port. There is also a set of DVI/HDMI/DP full digital video output interfaces, an RJ45 Gigabit network interface with a lightning protection chip, and a set of gold-plated audio interfaces with optical fiber ports.

The M.2 interface of Racing X370GT7 is equipped with a high-quality metal armor called M.2 COOLING. It has a very thick 3M double-sided heat sink sticker. Even if the M.2 SSD comes with a heat sink vest, it can be used to improve the heat dissipation efficiency.

The X370GT7 has a colorful LED lighting effect designed on the heat sink, which can be controlled by software. Connecting the light strip to the 5050 interface of the motherboard can realize the lighting linkage effect inside the entire chassis. At the same time, this motherboard is also equipped with a Tyrannosaurus gaming network card to provide better support for gamers. The 7.1-channel onboard professional sound card is needed by both gamers and entertainment users.
The graphics card is Biostar RX580 8G Avenger. The GPU of this Biostar RX580 graphics card still uses the Polaris architecture, codenamed POLARIS 20, and uses the more advanced third-generation FinFET 14nm process and improved packaging technology. Thanks to the improvement of process and yield rate, the RX580 has a higher core frequency than the RX480. The former has a maximum public version of 1340MHz, while the latter has a maximum public version of 1266MHz.

The RX 580 graphics card supports Radeon Chill technology, which can dynamically adjust the game frame rate and reduce system power consumption.

The tail of the Biostar RX580 graphics card is designed with DVI+HDMI+3*DP video interfaces, which is compatible with a wide range of mainstream monitors. However, the point is that this graphics card has strong computing power and is one of the main models for mining.

We will turn off screen protection, hibernation, system restore, and automatic update functions, and use public version motherboard and display chipset drivers to provide a basis for obtaining the most authentic, original, and objective evaluation data.

The main character of the test, zcash, uses the Equihash algorithm. It can be mined through graphics cards or CPUs. Graphics cards are divided into NVIDIA (N cards) and AMD (A cards), and CPUs are mainly Intel series. Operating system configuration, the operating system is generally based on 64-bit systems of win7, win8 and win10. Before mining, set the system virtual memory to 16G. Here is a mining tutorial for everyone - let you easily realize CPU+GPU dual miners!

In fact, the threshold to become a miner is really low! First, Baidu "Biter" website and register an ID with a common email address (QQ email address is fine), then go to My Account-My Funds and click Recharge on the virtual currency you want to mine to get the wallet code of your ID, and copy the code to a notepad for future use.

Download the "mining pool" you found, enter the wallet address into the program, copy your ID code into it, and you can start your own mining journey!

Let’s first take a look at the mining situation of R7 1700X. When the network is normal, you can use R7 1700X to realize the dream of “being a miner”, but the computing power of CPU is relatively low compared to GPU.

At this time, we need to use the A card mining program of the same mining pool and then use RX580 8GB to mine alone. The computing power is obviously much higher than that of R7 1700X, at around 250.

Then the last thing we need to do is to start mining with R7 1700X and RX580 8GB at the same time! The hashrate is the sum of the previous two, about 280. In fact, it is very simple to achieve this goal! Just start the two mining pool software at the same time (sequentially)! At this time, the power consumption of the platform is only 310W. It seems that CPU+GPU mining at the same time does not consume too much power.
Summary: This proves that dual mining with CPU+GPU is indeed possible. Although AMD graphics cards are still priced high and hard to find, the supply of AMD CPUs and motherboards is stable. Besides, even if it is hard to find a card, it is not that there is no way out, but the price is higher! If you really buy a 3A platform as you wish, play games in your spare time, and mine when you are not at home, if the currency value meets another round of market and stands at a higher point, it is possible to mine back the higher price!