antanis317 wrote:Was a world reset not planned a few Fridays ago?

Reset happened 12/5, so about two weeks ago.

no difference at all with difference amount of threads

CPU monitor notes that Factorio is single-threaded; the only thing more cores will do is offload other work to other threads. Helps a little, but not much.

Noticed a trend with RAM speed
Obviously this could just be a coincidence.

Try ...

Lots of other things running but it shouldn't have affected the core handling UPS. Thought it might be capped at 30k for awhile but the UPS wanders and the core sits at 100%.

Factorio Version: 0.12.19
Specs:
OS: Win 7 Pro
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770k (standard 3.50GHz)
GPU: GTX 770
RAM: 16GB @ 1866MHz ...

...until there are already 6 beacons (12x speed3) boosting.

This bit is important. I stated that 6 beacons is the breakpoint; you just proved it. At 6 beacons, your speed3 setup is superior to your eff.3 setup. Beyond that, eff.3 trumps in terms of power and pollution because energy useage drops ...

Oh my. Will there be hazmat suits available? That's going to be a lot of pollution.
You can then achieve the same throughput* using less power, less pollution, and probably a similar number of resources spent
I also use beacons with efficiency modules to get the pollution back down.
But still ...

- Updated factories to assembler 3s
- There were problems with green circuits not getting enough copper (which only got worse after I upgraded the assemblers) and with red circuits not getting enough copper wire
- The most belt bandwidth is needed for the wires
- I also upgraded the efficiency ...