same here, I think I got a little over 8k in 16 months which was 8k more than I had when I started. Luckily most of my purchases were covered by mining and/or covered by me selling other stuff around the house I didn't need.
I shut mine off the other day. After electricity costs, I would have maybe been netting $2-3 a day, and that's before ETH dropped another $500. I think my mining run is over - grossed ~$8k over the past 15 months which isn't too shabby for not...
We are probably about the same age. I may be just a couple of years older than you. Not sure, but probably close enough. I am what they call an Xennial. Grew up in the 80's in a pre-digital world, yet came of age in the 90's at the same time...
All different models and controllers (see red text in image), so it's not the best anecdote, but the ADATA SSD directly under my GPU is actually the coolest by a good margin. The 970 EVO below the GPU is actually wedged between a Thunderbolt card...
So I bought a 5800X today. This is replacing a 3700X.
Not so interested in the 3D model. I think my logic board would be marginal for a 12 core 5900X.
It's not a bad upgrade. Perhaps not a big bang for the buck. But I like upgrading. But...