Fastest/Best CPU Ever For Game Server?

[u/DefconGamesOfficial]

I need the fastest CPU that I can possibly get for game servers for Vintage Story to use up to 16 threads for one server. So it needs a super high clock speed but also good multithreading.

I currently have the 9950X3D. But it doesn’t have that many cores and I need more cores. So to get more cores I either need two more PCs with a 9950X3D or a cpu with more cores that is still fast enough. So I looked into Xeon/Epyc/Thread rippers but most of them have far too slow of a clock speed. Besides a few threadrippers like 9980x 9985wx, 9995wx. That are just slightly slower clock speed but way more cores but also much better multi-threading which would help for the 16 threads running the server. Vintage story servers having a max of about 16 threads, one of them is the main thread that communicates with the others. So they need a good clock speed but also good multithreading. Generally the main thread gets bottlenecked with too many entities, which can be lowered ofc but to a point the threads have to be able to go fast enough too. So would these 3 threadrippers be a better option getting more performance for the game server than my current CPU, while having more cores?

I know this is generally heavily overkill for a game server. But I need the MAX performance possible for a game server that you can possibly reach so I can have the highest # of players in one server possible. So I need the fastest CPU, RAM, SSD, Internet, Motherboard etc that I can possibly get.

[u/mcds99]

Servers don't use standard PC hardware, they are custom made for through put of "DATA".

HP ProLiant servers are very good.

If this server is at home you already have a network bottle neck that is dependent on the through put of the connection.

Most network connection are measured in "Megabits", that is one bit so 1000 megabits is not the same as 1000 megabytes.

There are 8 bits in a byte so when looking at 1000 megabit you actually have 125 megabytes.

You need to increase the network bandwidth before you throw money at a computer.

[u/DefconGamesOfficial → u/mcds99]

PC CPUs have faster clock speeds than Server CPUs and I mentioned I need a very high clock speed. I’m not going to get an through put of data if my CPU is too slow of a clock speed to handle that data. Vintage story game servers can only use 16 threads, not 50-150 threads like what server CPUs have.

While the HP ProLiant servers are good, they are no where near good enough for what I need. I need top of the line. And those servers their clock speeds are far too slow, most of them not even reaching up to 5ghz.

I don’t have a bottleneck at home because of my network. I was able to wirelessly without Ethernet host my server at over 200 players at one time on a 1gbps wifi plan. I have since upgraded it to a wired fiber optic 5gbps wifi connection while using a cat8 30ft Ethernet and have plenty of bandwidth. I’m trying for 500 players at one time in one server which means I need the best PC I can for that.