I fully agree, and what's more Intel has the performance to back it up. This chip pulls a lot but it's wicked fast, it's a massive step forward in framerates.

I fully agree, and what's more Intel has the performance to back it up. This chip pulls a lot but it's wicked fast, it's a massive step forward in framerates. It combines the minimum-framerate improvements of HEDT/Ryzen with the single-threaded performance of Kaby Lake. Oh yeah and AVX512 too. For a sense of perspective here, going from a circa-2012 2600K to a current 7700K is a 40% jump in performance, so it's roughly equivalent to 4-5 years of gains at Intel's usual tempo - only you also have 10 cores on this platform. This thing is an absolute monster for gaming or other tasks that lean heavily on single-threaded performance. But the power consumption is really the triggering issue for the problems with shitty partner-boards overheating and the TIM. The TIM is really the showstopper right now.