I guess that's why he "splurged" for his 10700. I do audio DSP and video. Most of what I do "likes" 28 threads. I also like 55$ processors !! BTW , he passed up my offer of that free V3 xeon ,
and bought the new Intel. I used his old 2133mhz memory pair (and bought 2 more) to get 60GB 4-channel memory bandwidth. Recycle his old stuff.
I get where you're coming from, trust me. I started with a dual socket 2680v2 w/ 64GB 1600 ECC. I ran multiple GPUs on it and everything was... Behind my 4790k. Gotta remember V3 chips are Haswell, just with DDR4.
I'm running a dual 2698v4 with 128GB 2133 ECC since I needed capacity over raw single thread. If it's a game or single threaded thing, I'll run it on my 5950x. If it's the 10 virtual machines, four games servers, BOINC, Discord bots, etc? Sits on the server.
Fun fact: two 2698v4 is the same multithread power as a 5950x. 80 threads to 32. This is what I mean by capacity versus raw power. Games will always run better on the 5950x just by clock speed alone. Games ran better even on my previous 3700x.
And, yes, I have tested the middle ground between consumer and server. My 1920x with core enhance on does game pretty well, but it's like.. three 4790k's glued together.
I should mention I do have a 1680v2 that overclocks to 4.4ghz very easily. The 16xx and 16xxv2 are typically unlocked and really fun to mess with. My 1650v1 hit.. 4.7 I believe. Sadly the 1680v2 will only match a 1800x in CPUz, but it's still a damn good Ivy Bridge.