Ryzen is starting to look better and better.But we're not stock clock users here and personally I'm thinking I want at least reach like 4.8GHz on a 1700X or otherwise I likely still pick 7700K. But time will tell, if I'd have to make an educated, that's roughly where I'd think it's going to max out on air/water though.
The big question is whether AMD's new overclocking tool which supposedly allow per core clocking (very sweet!), also allows telling which priority order the different cores are to be used. I mean if you can only get Core 0 and 1 to like 4.5GHz but Core 2 and 3 etc goes up to like 4.8GHz on reasonable voltage, that'd suck if you can't get those poorly multithreaded apps to first use the higher clocked cores.
Also I don't see 16 threads vital, I hope we can just use the 8 cores and disable the virtual cores and it'd further optimize the heat output & overclocking capability, 8 cores/threads will be sorta a sweetspot for a long time to come still I'd imagine.
1700X @ ~4.8GHz on 8 cores/threads with IPC ~6800K = sign me up for one!
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