Mind explaining to me in very specific terms, of what a person could do with a 16 core CPU?

Mind explaining to me in very specific terms, of what a person could do with a 16 core CPU?
I am heaviliy considering making a 3950x build this october.

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Come on user, pls give me something useful.

Video encoding or something? I have just two cores myself. Feels good man

> considering to build it
> what to do
You could encode your Charturbate vids faster like a consumerist whore you are.

So it literally just would make my workflow faster?
Thank you, user!

If you need to ask, you don't need it.
You need to spend a lot more money for a motherboard and cooler if you plan to overclock or really use any of the features that somebody with a 16-core would want to use.

make -j16

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Virtual machines, video encoding, HEAVY multitasking, rapid file compression and decompression, all sorts of CAD and animation work.
Generally, if you don't already know what you're going to use it for, you probably don't need it. But it's not bad to have either, though at 750 bucks plus the cost of a great motherboard to power it (3-400 bucks imo) I would not recommend it. Get the 3900X instead. Cheaper and way easier for a 150-200 dollar board to handle. I doubt you'll need to replace the 3900X at any point in the next 10 years, unless of course Sunny Cope really is all that the Intel shills make it out to be.

Watch a lot of porn.

that's precisely the thing more coars wont matter in

encoding, decompressing/compressing files

install gentoo

Run a ton of docker containers

You do realize a good portion of what you mentioned also would like quad channel ram and building a new PC with a $750 and $200+ motherboard puts you into TR4 territory right?

3950X is a halo product and most people in that price segment should be considering TR4 instead if building a new PC.

1. disable SMT/HT
2. overclock
it can be 3900x is better
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10 years is overstatement imo

TR4 is HEDT. 300 bucks is lowballing it for a TR4 motherboard, especially one meant to be capable of supporting one of the new TR 3000 series CPUs. Also this is precisely why they gave X570 40 PCI-E lanes. This is still considerably more affordable than buying Threadripper and most applications won't benefit THAT much from quad channel memory. Plus Threadripper sucks for gaming, and gaming is something you want to be able to do on a computer you're paying 2000 dollars minimum for.
Is it a halo product? Yes. Will it still see tons of use? Also yes. 750 dollars isn't much for a 16 core CPU capable of 4.7Ghz. It just isn't.
Plus the new TR mobos might be considerably more expensive than last gen as well considering the fact they'll have to handle a 64 core monster.

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Depends entirely on what you plan on doing with it. Gaming? Yeah the 3900X will last ten years easy. Games will keep scaling better with cores and the more they do the more utilisation you will get with a 3900X. It just has a ton of headroom while still having very powerful individual cores.
It's a lot like a QX series CPU from the Core 2 days. You could still get away with using one of those in 2015.
But it will all depend on whether Intel and AMD can keep leapfrogging each other. After all Intel didn't even have to compete back in the early 2010's. If the same startss applies to AMD for the early 2020's, 10 years is an understatement. But if Intel DOES come back swinging and AMD keeps applying pressure, you'll want to upgrade anyway.

depends. ask yourself what are you going to do with that monster performance.
i plan to build 3900X with 64GB RAM.

>Tons of VMs running concurrently
>Faster video encoding
>Some higher-end emulators running faster
That's it.

The patrician's choice.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

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If you have money and time to burn and like to mess around with linux then look into setting up a VM with GPU passthrough so you can use the graphics card in a VM to play games, or be able to boot an always offline W10 VM.
You will need enough RAM to split across two machines and two GPUs with different device IDs.
I am tempted to get a 3950X for that purpose once ACS kernel patching for IOMMU groups isn't required.
12 cores is more than enough for that purpose though, I don't need more than 4 cores on my host machine for shitposting and MPV unless compiling shit, in that case I can just shutdown the VM or not pin any CPU cores.

I might get the 3900x instead, significantly cheaper option.
But imagine having two OSes running on a single fucking PC in a single window manager using looking glass with access to 8 cores each. I want this.

Also unironically
>install gentoo.
Compile times would be interesting to see when all 16 cores are fully utilized.
It would make the OS a more appealing option for me.

>Compile times would be interesting to see when all 16 cores are fully utilized.
The fun thing is that you're kind of getting bottlenecked by single core stuff like configure or linking. Average load on update is way below max CPU usage. It got it's benefits for some massive packages, but aside from that gains are getting smaller with each core.

Running a particle swarm on 16 cores, although I think a GPU might be better for more parallel computing.

>I am heaviliy considering making a 3950x build this october.
Shit could probably last for 10 or 15 years. With stagnating single core performance, I'm pretty sure that mobo will die before CPU will get outdated.
If you're really serious about getting 16 cores for the sake of it, I'd probably wait for next AMD socket (getting mobo replacement might be easier in future) and DDR5.

CPUs like the X5650 or the i7-970 (both nearly 10 years old) are still decently running and something like the i7 3930k will still be fine for much, much longer.

if you are asking this then this cpu isnt your target group

i encrode chink cartoons bdmv with x265 + anti aliasing + debanding + motion compensated temporal denoising.
on a r5 2600 3.9GHz all coars i get 3.8fps.

install gentoo

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There are poorfags on this board right this very second still using Core2Duo machines with DDR2, some user out there still has an overclocked Core2Quad gaming rig too.
You can definitely hold on to a PC for a decade so long as you don't care about playing the latest meme AAA videogames.

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