Question / Help Does this sound about right ?

[technoob]

so after reading your guys advise on my previous threads what i understand is that when encoding x264 in obs it can only take advantage of up to 24 threads (i may have misread)

so if having more than that many threads doesn't really benefit then theirs no real point in going dual xeon 12 core's or anything like that, also from my understanding ghz, while not as important as cores for encoding a stream, is still important. so from that info im thinking go with the highest ghz cpu (probably amd fx 8 core that can turbo to 5ghz) and have as many of that cpu up to 24 threads (8core x 3 = 24) (if you can even have 3 cpu's?) resulting in a 3 x amd fx 8 core 5ghz cpu setup being the best stream encoding setup if what ive read is correct. does that sound about right ?

also a little side question, seen a few people that said for encoding only, amd are a tiny bit better than intel, is that true ? thanks

 

[Boildown]

No, this mostly sounds pretty bad. Also can you just use one thread (no pun intended) for your questions?

AMD's instructions per clock is poor, and them having a high cycles per second doesn't make up for it. There's no such thing as a free lunch in high end consumer / low end server CPUs.

For your plan you probably want a Haswell Extreme CPU with eight cores. There just is no AMD equivalent to this solution. Frankly, just the fact that you're asking these questions makes me question that you have the technical competence to pull it off even if you happened to select your parts wisely.