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I have an FX 8350, and I really want to upgrade. Performance per core of the newest processors are approaching 2x of mine. Trouble is, except for Civilization, no game actually needs a faster processor. It's really hard to justify. Processors just last a really long time these days.

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Cities: Skylines with large cities benefits very much of a higher core count, as the citizen/vehicle simulation parallelizes nicely. No experience how well it behaves with Ryzen though, but at least it is utilizing all cores on my trusty old Sandy Bridge i7.

The 8350 has no shortage of cores, at least as long as there's little floating point calculus going in.

I dunno, I just spent a couple thousand on a Dwarf Fortress machine. It's still single threaded :(

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