8 Core vs 12 Core - Gaming and General Use.

[beany_bot]

Question for the 12 core owners. How often do your 12 cores come in handy (outside of professional rendering and such).

Im considering the 5900x, primarily for gaming, and I hear you saying, "you dont need 12 cores for gaming". However my "gaming" is usually much more than just gaming, If I may paint a reasonably typical picture.
I run a triple monitor setup and often have say Microsoft Flight sim running, Discord open, connected to voice, streaming Flight Sim to discord & watching a friends stream, chrome open many tabs AND playing something light like GZDoom or Among Us all at once. I mean would this scenario have benfit of 12 cores over 8 cores or is 12 still overkill?

 

[beany_bot]

Since 12 cores is only 100 quid more 8 then I think it makes sense if your planning to keep the CPU long term.

Well it only makes sense if it provides a benefit. I'm just clueless as to if it will

 

[beany_bot]

I think the main thing I am learning is not to bother upgrade this gen.