:) I'm in the same boat. Built a 1700x with 32gb for my home workstation. Feels lot faster than the 4670k it replaced. I suspect most of that is the ddr4 + an

:) I'm in the same boat. Built a 1700x with 32gb for my home workstation. Feels lot faster than the 4670k it replaced. I suspect most of that is the ddr4 + another 4 cores + nvme , rather than IPC gains. I like the direction the CPUs moved, although after 7nm in few years, they'll have to redesign a lot more than CPUs to get anything substantial out of it. We'll see, exciting times otherwise.