Upgrading a 2600k at 5ghz? With what?

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My 2600k has been running at 5ghz since 2011! I couldn't believe it when I search for the invoices in my email.

I use two machines:
+ One big workstation (hackintosh) for Mac development, photo editing etc etc. This is currently the 2600k with 32GB.
+ One big(ger!) workstation (linux) for embedded/linux build. This one is a 5930K with 64GB. Barely overclocked.

I never felt the 5930K was anywhere as fast as the 2600k, despite the extra cores, even for building. It's still a good machine but I never felt it was 'screaming' fast.

Now, I'm pondering retiring the 2600K, use the 5930K machine as workstation, and building a new, bigass chassis/mobo/cpu etc.

I'm thinking Threadripper or a bigger Ryzen -- does that make sense? Any suggestion for my use pattern?

 

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OC the 5930k, should hit 4.4/4.5ghz easy!

It's already running at 4.2. To be fair I never tried to push it to it's limits!