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> 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,
by 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.