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That's pretty much my dream setup (except for the 2060, I have no need for anything more than a low-end GPU). I think some may discount Ryzen 9 because it's te

That's pretty much my dream setup (except for the 2060, I have no need for anything more than a low-end GPU). I think some may discount Ryzen 9 because it's technically not "HEDT", but the market boundaries have changed over time. HEDT used to include all CPUs more $400 dollars, all of which shared the same socket (for a given generation). Mainstream was on a separate socket and all below $400. However, Broadwell-E and Skylake-X moved the top end of the HEDT from $1K to $2K, which meant that HEDT spanned a huge segment. What AMD did with Ryzen 9 and X570 was to take the middle segment of that HEDT market and make it it's own segment.

greggyb 6y ago
> What AMD did with Ryzen 9 and X570 was to take the middle segment of that HEDT market and make it it's own segment. It did carve out a pricing segment there, but the really cool thing is that it's so compatible, backward and forward with other CPUs in the Ryzen family. There is huge upgrade potential. It would be entirely reasonable to build a system around an R7, with the expectation that its workload will grow, and throw in a discounted 3950X in a year when Zen3 hits.