Is it really that surprising that users on a tech forum skew higher than your average Joe? If you went to a car enthusiast forum you'd probably find that more of their members purchase high octane fuel.
Well . . . my "Garage" threads have me running a 26-year-old SUV with 192,000 on the odometer and an engine that runs like new. So I USE high-octane -- definitely. It is now a "21-st century Android SUV". It may be true that I could get better gas mileage on something new, but I love the one I've got.
I suppose I came back to this survey thread for ruminating over replies about my Skylake motherboard replacement and Kaby-upgrade opportunity. It's true -- I haven't really "kept up" over the past couple years, and I remember that people were salivating as they waited for Optane when I originally built this rig. I was chided -- urged to buy parts for a Comet Lake deca-core, or something in-between.
Of course, it's my own responsibility to keep in mind who is more likely to frequent these forums, and adjust my attitude. And as I've said, maybe . . . after some time . . . I'll build a hexa-octo-deca-core -- something. I'm just not hitting a brick wall with the quad I'm running now.
At least, we're 27% of forum users -- still. I remember when half of the forum members were still running Win 7, while others had switched to Win 10, although the parallel is not a perfect comparison.
Another member was posting on Cases & Cooling to discuss the matter of "water or air", and he's at a crossroads with IIRC -- maybe an i9-10900K or something similar, noting that it typically records temperatures at 80C or a little more under stock settings. He says he uses it for work that involves media encoding, so I can see how someone could use such a processor that way. But he also noted that for other things, he wasn't using the rig to its full potential. I think it finally occurred to me that he could create a down-clocked BIOS profile, and easily switch back and forth.
At least, when I'm ready, I can find a lot of info from the multi-core pioneers here at Anandtech!