# Mining on I7 3970X X79 Platform

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**Created:** [September 21, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/mining-on-i7-3970x-x79-platform/1882 "2016-09-21T23:31:35Z")\
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Is your genproclimit set equal to 6? You will likely be solving faster at 6 cores, but you will eventually have to deal with the law of diminishing returns relative to the # of cores you’re using when mining Zcash. Best way to do find out is to test with your hardware with:

> time ~/zcash/src/zcash-cli zcbenchmark solveequihash 10

This returns the # seconds to complete the equihash algorithm ten times. This will get you pretty good info for now. You can set it to a higher number, e.g. 20 to get a more accurate average.  
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See this thread for more info](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/how-do-i-check-my-hashrate/672/11)

If you do test, it would be great if you could post your results here: [https://benchmark.minezcash.com/index.php?title=Main\_Page](https://benchmark.minezcash.com/index.php?title=Main_Page)

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