Threadripper is a very powerful CPU. It doesn't support AVX-512, but in Asteroids@home I expect it would perform as good as Skylake-X. I also considered purchasing 1950X for my new rig, but in the end I decided to play safe and bought Skylake-X, mainly to ensure compatibility with my previous rig (based on Intel's Haswell-E and X99 chipset). I didn't even have to reinstall Windows, I just cloned my SSD and it booted right away on new machine.
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