hm. put a power monitor on my laptop power supply. running xmrig with 6 threads vs 12 threads both use the same amount of power.

5900HX, 8 cores, 16 thread CPU

that seems to have 16 MB L3, so shouldn't it max out at 8 or more ?

yeh. 12 was too much

hyc people have made ALUs and CPUs in Redstone, but Minecraft only loads a certain amount of chunks (areas of the world) at a time, so I doubt you could design one that could do RandomX, but all the bits and bobs are there NOT AND NOR NAND XOR X OR etc, so who knows.

Damn sorry. I didn't realize I was replying to something you said on the 12th.