It's 100% true that they've forced a revolution in price/performance. You forgot the much cheaper motherboards and RAM on Ryzen. Intel HEDT has been out of what

It's 100% true that they've forced a revolution in price/performance. You forgot the much cheaper motherboards and RAM on Ryzen. Intel HEDT has been out of what most people consider a reasonable reach. The more attractive of the HEDT chips started at $1050+ (6900K). Add in your quad channel RAM and LGA-2011-v3 motherboard and you have quite a bundle. Not part of pricing but the AM4 promise for socket longevity further seals the deal for enthusiasts. Either way, I'm happily using a newly built R7-1700 in a Node 202 mini-ITX case with a Geforce 1060 Founders Edition. It's very quiet and having 8 cores and 16 threads is far more useful than I assumed it would be. It's one of those things that you didn't know you needed until you have it. I use it for so much stuff, and it handles it all with ease. If nothing else, the 16 threads get a workout daily as my Steam Link is set to do CPU encoding and that uses 8 threads. Beautiful image quality on the TV as a result when the fam is doing some gaming. I'm in love with this system, very happy with Ryzen. Thanks to AMD! :)