I also prefer COMPATIBILITY to speed and my Threadripper 2950x runs emulators just fine while also doing media up-sampling and running VM's all at the same time
And my host os is Windows 10 Pro, I've set my memory speed to 2933 and all is stable and heck, using a 3200 quad-channel kit from CORSAIR and it seems to be pretty darn stable.
I think speed was really only needed on much older CPU tech, say around the P4 days or even perhaps on the first gen CORE tech.