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Thank you, Wookiee.

Lot of hate for Intel on here. Intel is better for gaming, and AMD is better for productivity.

I can afford both, matter of fact I have an Intel CPU at the moment.

i have a i9 7900x system at the moment but i'm seriosly concidering the 3900x and a asus crosshair viii formula, got £1600 to burn XD
 
Thank you, Wookiee.

Lot of hate for Intel on here. Intel is better for gaming, and AMD is better for productivity.

The sensible choice is work out what you will use it for and choose the best option in your budget. I had a choice between a 7700k and a Ryzen 1700, due to the increased core count / threads and AM4 socket being supported for future CPU generations I chose Ryzen. I am now probably looking at. 3900x but will wait a few months for reviews and actual users experience before deciding.
 
The sensible choice is work out what you will use it for and choose the best option in your budget. I had a choice between a 7700k and a Ryzen 1700, due to the increased core count / threads and AM4 socket being supported for future CPU generations I chose Ryzen. I am now probably looking at. 3900x but will wait a few months for reviews and actual users experience before deciding.
I agree.
However, I'd also say that it is even more nuanced than that. If your use case is gaming then your first port of call for affordability is GPU and monitor choice; CPU performance can seem like an irrelevance if you're gaming at high resolution, so you pick the CPU that can do the most other things.
 
Are you talking 9900K running stock or all cores 5.0Ghz?

It's hard to say because the video review wasn't that great in terms of comparison numbers.
Pretty sure he said a 4.8GHZ 9900K faster than a 4.3GHZ 3700X. That's absolutely fine considering the price differences, it just depends how the other parts clock.

But I don't think AMD have gained enough clock speed to make up the deficit yet. AMD for the first time in my involvement in hardware have better IPC, but too little clock speed.
 
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