I am in a similar spot with a 7-year old, 6C/12T overclocked Xeon W3680. If Threadripper frequencies are decent it might finally be time to join the current gen

I am in a similar spot with a 7-year old, 6C/12T overclocked Xeon W3680. If Threadripper frequencies are decent it might finally be time to join the current generation of hardware. I would "settle" for a 12C/24T Threadripper if it were clocked as high/higher than the 16C/32T version, and at the right price point (ala the Ryzen 1600X). Doubly so if Intel follows through on opening up Thunderbolt licensing and I can add a Thunderbolt 3 expansion card to a non-Intel system in the future. Optane isn't interesting, and while I have a fascination for AVX512 from discussions with a friend who does HPC, I know I concretely won't use it most of the time. The only unique thing that Intel offers me right now is Thunderbolt 3.