Kaapstad
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They will most certainly have to be cheapER than before. Whether or not that constitutes as cheap we will see. It's very good for every one though. It shows that Ryzen is good enough to have them sweating and finally they are releasing more cores. Either way I would not be interested, what I would like to see is all 16 threads of my Ivy Xeon being used. If and when that happens and if I see any sort of CPU bottlenecking I will probably go for a 16 core Ryzen.
Again, not so bothered about the clock speed because I would rather see core support. The devs have a long way to go ! right now we're pretty much on 4 for gaming. So my CPU is hardly being touched.
Plus I think there will also be a price war. Maybe not an immediate one, but once AMD get their fab machines running and spitting out those 16 core CPUs they will get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. It's been a really long time since a CPU with that many cores has been mass produced by AMD. And their last ones weren't anything special either.
So yeah, I think I'm pretty much good for now. I will wait to see my 5820k, Xeon and 6 core Phenom 2 get some support, then when the dust has settled and the prices drop I will probably go big Ryzen.
Hopefully once AMD really get going with Ryzen and the yields improve it will also bring with it an improvement in quality and clockspeeds.
About the only thing keeping intel in the game at the moment is their CPUs can overclock higher, if AMD can take that advantage away then prices will really start falling.