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The newer AMD machines are amazing. Its the second coming of Moore's law, but for core counts instead of clock speed. I just put together a machine with a 3900x at home and it is about 2/3 the speed of the three year old Intel Xeon machine with dual processors and 28 cores I use at work. The 3900x was around $450; the processors in the Intel machine were around $8k.

I only wish the AMD desktop and workstation machines could support more RAM. I have 256GB on the Intel machine, whereas 128GB was the max for the 3900x. I think the threadripper line only goes up to 256GB, which seems a little low for machines which such a large core count.