DrinkLyeAndDie
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I see Intel getting slammed, wonder if AMD is getting hard drive hits as well. I've got 2600 bucks in my hand and ready to build pc. Still sitting on the fence.
I happened to both be smart and make some mistakes when I decided to build my system. Timing-wise luck had it that I bought my hardware right before Kaby Lake, Ryzen & then Coffee Lake dropped. It was still far enough off that I didn't get my CPU at a steal, however. That kinda sucks but such is life. On the plus side, I was paying attention to talk about supply, demand, and pricing. Word was RAM prices would be going up so I purchased my needed hardware sooner and didn't actually build the system for about 5 months. I believe I bought everything in December of 2016. I paid $229 for 32 GB of G.Skill TridentZ DDR4 3200 [F4-3200C16Q-32GTZB]. Currently it's selling for $418 on Amazon and $381 on Newegg.
I'm impressed with Ryzen but, personally, I'd probably wait until the 2nd generation which I believe is supposed to be released in Q2 of 2018 if I were to go that route.