TL;DR: AMD's Threadripper PRO 9995WX managed to hit 186,800 in Cinebench R23, overclocked to 5GHz across all 96 cores, but it used almost 950W to do so.

The Ryzen 7 9700F has been spotted on the ASUS website, a cheaper spin on the 9700X that lacks integrated graphics, which won't be a concern for most folks.

Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro This is a really nice X870E motherboard but Gigabyte has priced it a little too high to fend off the MSI X870 Tomahawk for the coveted top pick.