So basically I'm looking for the most cores for under 180 and a opteron 6380 seems to work but I'm looking for a micro at motherboard and this is the most fitting I've found but like safety and long term factors how do they look?
at the end of the day 8gb will be less than usable in 2 years from now windows already uses like 4gb at idle 16gb is a sweetspot at the moment unless you use arch linux #ARCHLINUXGANGREPRESENT then 16gb will be the best option
if you want your pc to be great out of the gate 16gb is minimum windows is only getting more and more bloated and for any gaming or editing 16 gb is recommended