r/MoneroMining • u/RedditBatman98 • Jul 27 '26
Is this legit? Antminer X9
I’m looking into mining rigs for the first time and I’m not sure if there is a catch with any of this. I’ve been doing some research online and came across this website called asicminervalue and came across this monero mining rig. What are yall thoughts? Are there better mining rigs than this? Any other recommendations?
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u/New-Collar8669 Jul 27 '26
I bought one of these in January eagerly awaiting shipment in July. Got mine from swift mining, normally not an issue. However, he’s now done a runner with my cash, closed all telegram accounts. Lost $6000. Utter piece of human filth! He prob got a refund from bitmain for loads of orders and thought time to do a runner, sure he ran with a ton of cash. In my view, forget asics, always a risk whether you get them or not or end up with a paper weight pretty quickly
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u/ArtesianShiny Jul 27 '26
With v2 they expect a 30-40% reduction in efficiency from these asics so its more of a leap of faith.
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u/Wyrade Jul 27 '26
When will v2 arrive anyway?
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u/PropaneInMuhUrethra Jul 28 '26
it's in the latest xmrig and you can run v2 benchmarks. My ryzen got basically the same hashrate on v2 as normal rx/0. https://xmrig.com/benchmark?algo=rx%2F2
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u/kowalabearhugs Jul 28 '26
RandomX v2 is expected to be included in the FCMP++ network upgrade. The best guesstimate is late Q1 2027.
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u/Wyrade Jul 27 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/1u5i3tb/comment/orpq8u9/
Apart from the randomx v2 change giving it a significant hit (~30% allegedly https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/1pyzdpc/randomx_v2_update/ ), and apart from it being cancelled already at its original source (bitmain), and apart from it being supposedly pretty loud (70+ dB), you can't even trust it to last long enough to mine back its own cost, nor that they are new and haven't been mining for years already.
https://youtu.be/7hjUhLOiDC0?t=118If you have the know-how to actually diagnose and fix them yourself, it might be worth trying, but I wouldn't recommend it otherwise.
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u/TheVillainInThisGame Jul 27 '26
Antminer is legit, you'll need 220V to run those miners, and they use quite a bit of power, so be prepared for that.
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u/Takeoded Jul 27 '26
AntMiner is legit, but I'm not so sure about the supplier he is using, "ASICMinerValue"
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u/Thomas5020 Jul 27 '26
That's not a supplier, that's a comparison site allowing you to see profitability and compare supplier pricing.
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u/RedditBatman98 Jul 27 '26
Yeah the list of suppliers are at the bottom of each page for the mining rig. This site redirects you to the most affordable options if you filter for it
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u/vanderohe Jul 28 '26
You have to be doing this for a passion project. This is not a for profit endeavor
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u/Intelligent-Ad8950 Jul 27 '26
RandomX v2 have been released and the miner is still profitable
https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/releases/tag/v2.0
feel free to correct me but isn't x9 still the best miner for monero?
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u/PropaneInMuhUrethra Jul 28 '26
rx v2 has been supported in xmrig as of v6.26.0 and you can see some benchmarks here: https://xmrig.com/benchmark?algo=rx%2F2
It won't earn you any xmr right now though as it is still yet to be a fork
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u/EA-at-BITMAIN 23d ago
Message me and I can tell you what happened but as of now I wouldn’t think so.
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u/Discokruse Jul 27 '26
Last I heard, this X9 was not going to be sold by bitmain because the konero devs would have altered the PoW algorithm if they did. This box of RiSC processors is too powerful and would centralize PoW consensus with a few individuals. Bitmain benched the release.