>>>That's a different category, though. My point is it's the category most enthusiasts would be happiest with, even if they think otherwise. >>>Is that possib

>>>That's a different category, though. My point is it's the category most enthusiasts would be happiest with, even if they think otherwise. >>>Is that possible? Looks like I was mistaken, I thought the Sky/Kaby Lake-X chips used the same socket as the Xeons. So no. >>>And I really doubt you'll get 8 cores to beat 16. If it were possible, it would be 8 cores operating at a 50% higher frequency (with substantially more room for overclocking, too) and that support AVX-512 instructions. And you get quickly-diminishing returns from throwing more threads at a program (just mathematically, even if it's embarrassingly parallel and CPU-bound, each time you double the threadcount you get half the improvement of the previous doubling).