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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.

How did you reconfigure your cpus? I'm running x5660s as well but am only getting around 175H/S

XMRIG with "large pages" enabled (in windows run program as admin then reboot system / continue to run as admin) -- otherwise nothing special in setup.

Is it faster than XMR-stak? Don't forget XMRig has dev fee, XMR-stak can be 0 if you compile it yourself.