> but I bet it depends on your language. Not as much as you would think, I have a ryzen 1700 I use for dev, mostly PHP (not a language that threads well) in an

> but I bet it depends on your language. Not as much as you would think, I have a ryzen 1700 I use for dev, mostly PHP (not a language that threads well) in an Enterprise environment. Those extra cores/threads come in incredibly handy for virtualization, both dev environments and things like running windows for testing Even VS2017 inside virtual box absolutely flies when given 16GB of RAM and 4 cores (8T). For my day to day the cores are useful even if my primary language isn't using all of them. I'm currently in the strange situation where my desktop running the main system in virtual box is faster than our production/spare servers.