Thanx for sharing your exprience Elliott,
I have GPU render software, so I was thinking about Xeons for multithreaded tasks... but, as indeed you are saying, a lot of tasks are still singlethreaed (withing ArchiCAD).. I'll probably stick to i7 as well.
But now AMD has launched the Ryzen, so that might be a total other ballgame.
As far as I found some reviews on that... it is probably with same result as for i7 might be faster for singlethread tasks, but then Ryzen could be interesting for that as well.
greetz,
W8.1(64), AC19(5005), OctaneRender plugin, Corel, Adobe Premiere Elements 11.
Cosmos II, MSI X99S Gaming 9 AC, i7-5930K 3.5gHz, multiple GPU (1080Ti+Titans: 4Z+X+2Black), 32GB, 1500W.