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Hot new advice from Silicon Valley: don't buy more than 6 cores for home use

Putting two more cores on there just eats up die space and c...
Jared Baumeister is a cow who welches on bets
  12/10/25


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Date: December 10th, 2025 5:05 PM
Author: Jared Baumeister is a cow who welches on bets

Putting two more cores on there just eats up die space and creates more heat. 6 cores is enough even without hyperthreading, so hyperthreading makes it even more gluttonous.

This does not apply to Epycs and Xeons. Go ahead and add cores to those. Keep going, don't stop

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808829&forum_id=2Elisa#49500292)