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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

What's the current sweet spot 6 or 8 cores?

Any benefit for paying for 12 or 16?

[–] primemagnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

For gaming exclusively, no. More cores means very little. And will for a long time to come (10 years+). And 8/10 seems ample enough for anything that isn’t highly specific to a field.

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