Thank you very much for the help. I think a dual boot will work perfectly for what I have in mind and the higher clock CPU is only $20 anyways on eBay.
I hadn’t really considered going outside of Windows for the OS just because I have bunch of older PC games that range from 98 to XP and Windows 10 is what all the programs I have now for emulation run on. So then if I go to a more barebones Linux based system stick with the higher clock speed?
So I’ve seen the threads all over the internet for using these CPUs for gaming, but what about for emulation? I know with emulating you end being CPU bound more often due to the CPU having to emulate the graphics as well and I’m not sure if the extra cores will help in this case or if the higher...