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Future proofing is a losing game imho
It will be a LONG time before 24 threads at 3.7 GHz is unworkable. Aside from gamer slop, software will be targeting much less performant machines for a very long time. I was running Gentoo on an i7-4770k (8 threads at 3.5GHz) up to this year and the only reason I switched was because the 32GB RAM limit of the architecture was finally beginning to constrain me, 10 CPU generations later. And though the clock speeds of these CPUs hasn't changed significantly, they have MUCH larger caches nowadays. That old machine is still more powerful than the CAD/CAM workstation IT provides me at work.