Well ya 24 core or 32 core is fast, so is dual xeon chips 28c each. I don't need multithreaded as I dont work with premiere or any adobe app. If I was a hardcore video editor then ya rendering times TR will pown. I need about 6 cores max the other 12 cores will be parked as I don't do anything to peg it at 100 percent all cores. Single core the 10980XE will pown a TR core for core,,, but of course in rendering the TR will pown but since I dont do any AVX or video rendering I think 18 core is great for me for many years to come. Since I will be using 4 to 6 cores max on my workstation. Also my cousins husband works for Intel in Silicon Valley. They live in Oakland. He said he can give a good discount and whatever I need the price will be reduced since he works for them. Im thinking 800 dollars or so.