Happy 9950X user here. Super happy with it, everything is crazy fast. Not a gamer, according to internet and benchmarks the extra cost is only worth it for gaming workloads.

I use Arch, btw ;)

With AMD I find it’s often quite reasonable to go for their fastest hardware simply because you can. A top of the line AMD PC is $2500, but a Intel/Nvidia one easily runs $5000, though I’ll admit that’s almost all GPU.