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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] INTENSE COIN - Blockchain backed decentralized VPN - Hybrid PoW
by
sundownz
on 25/01/2018, 11:22:25 UTC
Older Quad-CPU servers seem to be a "goldmine" right now with GPU shortage and popularity of Cryptonight coins like ITNS.

Even so, older CPU's aren't particularly efficient with cryptonight.

I have an old Intel Xeon E5645 6 core (85W TDP) in my secondary machine and it struggles with 200 H/s with 6 threads. And it should excel with its 12 Mb of cache.

My laptop has a tiny core i7 7500u (15W TDP) and it does 130 H/s with 2 threads...

I also run a ton of older Xeons... they do plenty well for being cheap as they are (get your money back in a month). I mainly use X5660 models on 5 threads... about 230 H/S

Of course more modern CPUs are more efficient but they are pricey.


Do you get better performance with 5 threads rather than 6? With 12 Mb cache, I run 6 threads on mine.

I use 5 as I also GPU mine on all those systems and I want to leave some resources for that. Using all six slows the GPU miner.