> I can't think of an application that would justify paying $5000 for an extra 300MHz of base clock, but I can imagine that someone needs it. Here's one: EVE O

> I can't think of an application that would justify paying $5000 for an extra 300MHz of base clock, but I can imagine that someone needs it. Here's one: EVE Online servers. Back in 2013, CCP had at least one 4.4GHz Xeon they used to host fleet fights with thousands of players: https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/message/3917593/#post3917593 https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/message/3917593/#post39... Why? Because EVE is mostly written in Python, which is both very slow and, thanks to the GIL, effectively single-threaded. It's a fundamentally limiting architecture, but that extra single-core performance let them push it just a little further – which for them was (is?) well worth it.