I wanted more cores so I can run a few virtual machines. Speed-wise I think this should future-proof me for at least a little while. That CPU was top of the line 6 months ago, but the 16-core has taken its place and costs 50% more. I mostly try to stay a bit behind the bleeding edge.
I'd love to live in a place like NZ at some point, but for now I'm going to sink roots in the US for a while. The last twelve years I've been living and working all over the place!
Thanks for stopping by!
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Yeah... for VMs, I would go threadripper (old ones will do)... but that also ripes you off. Having the right frequency and core count combination to have VMs and play games on the same rig is kind of hard. Tried that with overclocking my entire "juvenile" life... and could never get the right satisfaction.
Maybe one day I will get back to it.
If you look into some of my madness posts from 1 or 2 years ago, I have used a datacenter cooling door to passively cool my last 7 year old PC... a Xeon with almost 75% more TDP due overclocking, plus overclocked AMD R9-290. Anyway... old times for now, as I don't have the time anymore.
Cheers
We'll see how it goes. I'm not not really a gamer, but will probably play around with some games to see what it can do. Just want to build something with some flexibility for the future.