Arachnotronic
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Yes, or buy an 8 core AMD Zen when it's released. As you said, any of them will give you massively better MT performance, and come close to Intel quad core ST performance. But the anti-MT crowd just aims at max ST performance no matter what, and a 4 core 4790K/6700K is faster than 5960X/Zen in ST performance.
We don't know anything about the performance characteristics about the Zen CPU core besides a "40% IPC over XV" claim. We need to see how this thing performs.
Also, Zen is ~1 year out, so if you need to buy today, Zen is a non-starter.