lolfail9001
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Just a warning: in gaming TR is not going to provide even 1 more fps than equally clocked Ryzen, so i hope you have more in store for it than just games.The review sites are making it seem like intel is WAY ahead of Ryzen in gaming performance...then you dig into the benchmarks and see that, real world, Ryzen is within 3-4 fps of the highest clocked intel chips! I think there is a flat out bullshit perception out there that AMD is still not competitive in gaming...and it's simply not true! I am going with Threadripper for 3 reasons:
1) HALF the cost of Intel
2) no ARTIFICIAL restrictions on PCI lanes to try to milk more money from consumers
and 3) solder on the heatspreadder (aka, ATTENTION TO DETAILS!)
I dont care if the next guy can get a few more fps out of his rig, I refuse to pay $2000 for Intel's best chip...or have to pay $1000 just to get the full 44 lanes that Intel offers! I will most likely get the $999 chip anyway (because, why not? I am already spending a ton on my next build, and $500 more isnt breaking the bank), but at $999 I am going to get a hell of a lot more performance for my dollar than an Intel chip will provide.