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Ryzen R5 CPU's, anyone considering one?

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So I was looking at the upcoming R5's, and the 1600 (6 core, 12 thread) looks pretty interesting if you are prepared to overclock.

I don't think I'm prepared to drop to a 4 core chips (2+2 config), but the 6 core seems a reasonable price/performance balance. Obviously I'd love an 8 core lol, but money any growing on trees as buying a house at the moment.

Silly to consider a six core? Is anyone able to disable 1 core on each side and do testing?
 
The only thing putting me off really are the ram issues (limited overclocking of memory without clock gens)
 
One of the interesting things I noticed from the Adored video was his observation of if you run anything other than just a game, then a 7700k will start to stutter even though the frame rate is higher. The R7 did not have this issue, and brings hope to the R5 with 6 cores as well. (This was worst case scenario though with Fallout 4).

I'm just struggling to justify a 200 to 300 MB PURELY for the reason that I want a clock gen for the memory. Literally, this is the only reason I wouldn't get a cheaper board right now.
 
Would have been very interesting to see a single CCX quad with 8MB L3 cache to see how it performed.

There does very much seem to be a point at present where the frequency of the chip does nothing, and something else is bottlenecking it.

I am really hoping that for gaming the 6 core chips don't lose too much performance compared to the 8 core. I know it won't be "the best" but whatever I get will be a big step up from my overclocked APU and hopefully better than my old overclocked 2500k.
 
Guaranteed clocks no hassle = 1600X. Prepared to do some work and get better value = 1600.

And yes... same question as amigafan2003... source of the single CCX chip news please? (I read elsewhere that AMD had said the upcoming R5's would all be 2 + 2, 3 + 3 etc... no 'funny business' as they put it.
 
Looking at the R5 1400, that only has 8MB L3 cache, even though it was reported that all the R5 would be split designs, I do have to wonder if this will be a single CCX chip.?
 
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