AMD Threadripper 2950X versus i9 line?

[Kayley]

Some of you are really going a bit overboard with computing power here.

I run 30 WoW clients on 4 cores (8HT) - i7-5960x - and I play my main on settings 10, everything on, 3440x1440p with the remaining 4 cores WHILE goofing around on twitch/youtube/movies. When I played 12 accounts the CPU would throttle itself because it wasn't being utilized enough lol. Now a single 980ti for the slaves (34% utlization in world pvp- big groups). A single 980ti for the 'main' .. 80fps in Uldir, pretty constant.. roughly 45fps in Boralus (tanks hard here for some reason). Yes my PC parts are overclocked and yeah they are ollldddd

i9-7900X is roughly 5-8 frames slower than the 5960x, but it has 2 extra cores sitting around doing nothing.
1920x is roughly 8-12 frames slower than the 5960x, but has 4 extra cores sitting around doing nothing.
2990WX was roughly 35 frames slower than the 5960x. It was shit for gaming, so gosh darn amazing with everything else. Turns out this was caused by the GPUs and nvidia have released a patch which corrects it in quite a few gaming titles-- haven't tested it myself but did the old google and it seems legit. I've only tested the above hardware.

Certain games will run better on certain hardware; that part wont change. No matter what you buy for multiboxing you will not even come close to maxing it unless you run an INSANE amount of clients.