Dunno, I think talking myself into a Ryzen, but I wanted ECC and not some hand waving that it might work. Intel's coffee lake i7 6 core/12 threads (i7-8700) is

Dunno, I think talking myself into a Ryzen, but I wanted ECC and not some hand waving that it might work. Intel's coffee lake i7 6 core/12 threads (i7-8700) is looking like it will beat the ryzen on single thread and multithread workloads. At least that's the leaked benchmarks so far. I'm hoping that the Xeon E3 flavor of the i7 is out shortly afterwards. Should make for a great workstation and guarantees ECC. I was shopping for ECC threadripper boards and they often don't mention ECC. I'm hoping AMD fixes that and brings out a threadripper down to $350 (with the Intel x-series starts).