While I, too, am tired of being told that I not only can't have both, but it's *impossible* for me to want both (*), I do think we can be a bit bolder than just saying that we don't think TR will have 7900x ST performance. Maybe TRii will, but TR? Zen won't be air-overclocking to 5Ghz anytime soon, despite the binary meanderings of certain elements in the press. "It would take a [chocolate covered] miracle." I'm going to wait to see how exactly the 12-core and TR shake out, but ymmv. I kind of figure that the 14+ core offerings from Intel aren't going to clock as well, and it isn't clear to me how the 16-core TR will compare to the 12-core Skylake-X part yet.
Best guess is that Skylake is ~15% better IPC and will likely OC ~15% higher. If both of those are true, the 12-core Skylake may well be best for our case just because of the mix of needs. I'm going to pass on getting the 10-core, though, because it isn't faster enough from my current box, and the motherboards seem to be going through some maturing pain I'd rather not go through again :> And if I'm waiting anyway, might as well see what actually winds up shipping.
BTW, I assume you're the same bassman I know from elsewhere, in which case, thank you for the idea of adding a slow-mo inset vid. I really need a proper second camera for it, but the parental units were both very grateful for it.
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(*) It's like saying I shouldn't want a mansion on the beach, because people who live on the beach wouldn't want to be in a big house because they're on the beach all the time, and people who really want to have a mansion don't have any time to play in the sand. Where do you even start to explain? Sometimes when I'm in my editor, I want to be doing motion tracking. Sometimes when I'm in my editor, I'm looking at four 4k streams. These operations require different profiles. I'm sorry your imagination has failed you? I dunno, I've just been shaking my head and moving on, but I die a little every time I read that stuff.