Heres my dealings...
Ive played consistent 50 hours and have had a few crashes, allot of glitches, a couple game ending glitches, some issues with picking up items but not many.. I just now seen 1.05 is installed so Im going to see how it goes!
Side note, the majority of games are not designed to utilize more than 4 cores. It'll be a while until we see games being developed to run on so many cores. I would love to see Age of Empires grow to such a size and smart AI that 8 cores would be needed haha
For the most part, unless its a weird engine like fallout, (NOT TALKING $HIT JUST SAYIN') gamers can game comfortably with 4 cores and hyperthreading but I would maybe get a 6 core to future proof. Unless you are running a network or into design or engineering or something but I've been using an i7-4790k (Delid to 4.9Ghz tho), 16Gb 2400RAM, 1070 GTX (Gigabyte mini), Asrock Extreme9 mobo, ASUS 144Hz gaming monitor . Im playing on Ultra settings at 60fps constant but have lowered Anti Aliasing or whatever its called.
Anyways Im not bragging or trying to correct anyone, what Im saying is people dont need "the latest" or newest components to play. Kinda just like an fyi