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― John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', Part I (1678)</blockquote>

As I began researching recent years' incremental improvements to high-end desktop technologies, one thing seemed obvious: the Intel Broadwell-E Core i7 6950X was laughably useless, a processor distinguished only by its price, a money-grab ~~strictly suitable for moneyed~~ suckers. Broadly dismissed in reviews, its clock speed and microarchitecture are inferior to the ''much'' cheaper Skylake i7 6700K, its cost per core exceeds that of all but the largest Broadwell-EP Xeon E5 v4s, and it doesn't support multisocket configurations. Arstechnica [http://www.anandtech.com/show/10337/the-intel-broadwell-e-review-core-i7-6950x-6900k-6850k-and-6800k-tested-up-to-10-cores put it best] in their Broadwell-E review:

As I began researching recent years' incremental improvements to high-end desktop technologies, one thing seemed obvious: the Intel Broadwell-E Core i7 6950X was laughably useless, a processor distinguished only by its price, a money-grab narrowly targeted at suckers. Broadly dismissed in reviews, its clock speed and microarchitecture are inferior to the ''much'' cheaper Skylake i7 6700K, its cost per core exceeds that of all but the largest Broadwell-EP Xeon E5 v4s, and it doesn't support multisocket configurations. Arstechnica [http://www.anandtech.com/show/10337/the-intel-broadwell-e-review-core-i7-6950x-6900k-6850k-and-6800k-tested-up-to-10-cores put it best] in their Broadwell-E review:

<blockquote>Intel is somewhat shooting itself in the foot with the pricing on the i7-6950X. The recently released Xeon Broadwell-EP processor list includes the Xeon E5-2640 v4: a 10-core 2.4 GHz/3.4 GHz part that runs at 90W, and is priced at $939, which compares favorably to the i7-6950X and its 10-cores at a 3.0 GHz/3.5 GHz clockspeeds. And because it’s a Xeon E5 processor processor, with the right motherboard a user can put two into the same machine for 20 cores/40 threads for only $1878, or only $150 more than the 10-core i7-6950X.</blockquote>

I thus felt weird several days later buying a 6950X ($1650 at Amazon). This writeup seeks to justify my purchase, arguing that the black sheep Broadwell-E Extreme decacore is actually the best option for a very small class of users.

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 ― John Bunyan, ''The Pilgrim's Progress'', Part I (1678)</blockquote>
-As I began researching recent years' incremental improvements to high-end desktop technologies, one thing seemed obvious: the Intel Broadwell-E Core i7 6950X was laughably useless, a processor distinguished only by its price, a money-grab strictly suitable for moneyed suckers. Broadly dismissed in reviews, its clock speed and microarchitecture are inferior to the ''much'' cheaper Skylake i7 6700K, its cost per core exceeds that of all but the largest Broadwell-EP Xeon E5 v4s, and it doesn't support multisocket configurations. Arstechnica [http://www.anandtech.com/show/10337/the-intel-broadwell-e-review-core-i7-6950x-6900k-6850k-and-6800k-tested-up-to-10-cores put it best] in their Broadwell-E review:
+As I began researching recent years' incremental improvements to high-end desktop technologies, one thing seemed obvious: the Intel Broadwell-E Core i7 6950X was laughably useless, a processor distinguished only by its price, a money-grab narrowly targeted at suckers. Broadly dismissed in reviews, its clock speed and microarchitecture are inferior to the ''much'' cheaper Skylake i7 6700K, its cost per core exceeds that of all but the largest Broadwell-EP Xeon E5 v4s, and it doesn't support multisocket configurations. Arstechnica [http://www.anandtech.com/show/10337/the-intel-broadwell-e-review-core-i7-6950x-6900k-6850k-and-6800k-tested-up-to-10-cores put it best] in their Broadwell-E review:
 <blockquote>Intel is somewhat shooting itself in the foot with the pricing on the i7-6950X. The recently released Xeon Broadwell-EP processor list includes the Xeon E5-2640 v4: a 10-core 2.4 GHz/3.4 GHz part that runs at 90W, and is priced at $939, which compares favorably to the i7-6950X and its 10-cores at a 3.0 GHz/3.5 GHz clockspeeds. And because it’s a Xeon E5 processor processor, with the right motherboard a user can put two into the same machine for 20 cores/40 threads for only $1878, or only $150 more than the 10-core i7-6950X.</blockquote>
 I thus felt weird several days later buying a 6950X ($1650 at Amazon). This writeup seeks to justify my purchase, arguing that the black sheep Broadwell-E Extreme decacore is actually the best option for a very small class of users.