The only question is whether you will plunk down over $400 when you will get similar performance on the 1600k next month for $259 . Your choice. Coffe Lake was scaled back to 14nm. It will not be a dramatic improvement over what is currently available from Intel. It will not be much cheaper at all since they are not doing a process shrink and there will be no improvement in die yield and monopolist Intel is trying to maintain its inflated profit yields at the expense of users who when Intel tells them to bend over,ask how much.I cancelled my ryzen pre-order, think I', going to wait for Coffee Lake. Looks like intel is going to release a mainstream i7 with 6 cores in 2017. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/02/intel-coffee-lake-14nm-release-date/
Only question is motherboard compatibility, will it use 1151 or a new socket?