I've finally learned to make a superb, deep-dish apple-pie with a crust that doesn't bake itself into a vaulted ceiling over the apples. With that, I end up with about 14 to 16 cores of Granny Smith leftovers for the trash.
I've offered up this info in other threads: "Who are the real mainstreamers, and what do they have?" My dentist uses 4-core Xeons from corporate-surplus-asset turnovers: they're all Dell workstations, and he simply replaces the PSUs when he buys them. My friend the retired plasma physicist has at most 4 cores, and spends a lot of time with his cell-phone. A retired white-collar police detective has 4. A retired Navy electronics technician -- who can tell you everything you need to know about your DIY projects and he keeps up with laptop and tablet technology -- he is still using a C2D Conroe for his main desktop. My high-school sweetheart -- now widowed and living over in Yorba Linda -- I think she may only have a dual-core system, but proudly proclaims that her computer is all set up to print out mailing labels.
Another high-school chum became an electronics technician and worked part-time at the local junior college servicing their PCs. He asked me a year ago if he should buy an SATA SSD for his main rig, which -- I think -- is something like a dual-core E-8600. If I remember, it is a DELL OEM box. And -- he's a real "piece of work". He is neurotically disciplined: he consciously limits his internet access to three times per week. He thinks that anything more than that is "unhealthy".
If I hang out a lot here at the forums, having skipped away from the computer-tech forums and threads for a couple years with a new devotion to "Garage" and "P&N" -- I could begin to feel a bit "inferior", or even someone with Luddite tendencies. I've probably contemplated having a lowly hexa-core system (what's that? An i9-9900K?) for four years or so.
But unless my games and applications change very much at my ripe old age of nearly 74, moving up to last year's Comet Lake is not a big priority. Not at all.