The latest i9 is a formidable monster, but it’s a single socket CPU, and the Xeons are evolving at a sluggish rate.
Look at the stock chart. Upper left to lower right. The company is hemorrhaging cash. I’m surprised to short position isn’t larger.
I'm happy with my I9-10850K. I used a Z490-PRO MSI motherboard, MSI liquid CPU cooler with a 360mm radiator. The board will host 128GB RAM, but those were too expensive. I just stuffed 64GB on the board. The 2 NVME SSD slots have a 1 TB stick each. Windows 10 Pro on one stick, Fedora 36 on the other stick. No pressing need for hot graphics. The machine is sized to run large kubernetes clusters. The board has a 2.5GE wired ethernet port. My net is 1 GB and it works fine with the 1 Gbps symmetric fiber ISP. I have just enough cores to do the kubernetes clusters properly. The board has 6 SATAIII ports to accommodate the slower SSD (compared to NVME).
I built the i9 as a refresh to the 2013 machine that I fashion from an i7-2600K, 32GB RAM and 4 TB of SSDs. I'm using that machine to type this message. It's still my Windows 10 daily driver. The BIOS is very old and won't boot when the HDMI port is connected to my 34" wide monitor. It was a very unsettling discovery.
Both the i7 and i9 can drive the fiber speed test at 980 Mbps symmetric. The older Linux boxes and my company laptop don't have the memory, motherboard or disk bandwidth to reach that level of performance. The company VPN moves a paltry 40 Mbps. No big deal. I started at this house with DSL symmetric as 22 Kbps. Life is much improved with the fiber.