I hope that future is bright. If this turns out to be true, then my next rig will be on AMD platform. 
Zmajuga Ill believe it when I see benchmarks 
But. if true, it would be great for all of us. Intel needs a healthy and real competition. Plus, the prices will drop. Hopefully xD
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“Now, considering the $499 price - AMD has a winner on that alone, especially IF Zen can outperform the $999+ CPUs from Intel.” A big IF But i support a little competition.
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Zmajuga I agree and my plan is amd this spring hopefully
ButtStallion said in AMD's new Zen-based $499 CPU beats Intel's $999 CPU:
Now, considering the $499 price - AMD has a winner on that alone, especially IF Zen can outperform the $999+ CPUs from Intel. A big IF
But i support a little competition.
Heck for half the price I’d be ok with close enough performance haha
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I will wait for the unbiased reviewers to deliver the opinion. Not to troll, but Intel happy reviewers will focus on what it can’t do and AMD happy’s will focus on what it can.
If anything it will serve as a segue for those who want a boost above the orthodox and can’t afford the high end gear. My logic follows the path AMD have taken with the RX480. More people can’t afford a 1070/1080 in one hit, so AMD move units. Market share logic.
If anything it may nudge Intel CPU prices a touch… downward.
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More importantly there seems to be a ton of salt starting to flow about the 7700K CPU… not much increase but a heap of heat out put. Not knowing much, is it possible that the true increase on the Kaby Lake series would be only possible in the Z270 chipset? Or would that not be feasible?
In other words you can use the 7700K on a Z170 board but if you paired it with a Z270 there would be some Intel witchcraft that unlocked better speeds?
Salt or no salt, Fanboys won’t care. Intel will tell them that their gear is below par and require a full upgrade. They will do it too, because reasons.
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I’m not sure why people even bother to buy mainstream Intel or AMD desktop CPU and make a Ferrari from Yugo … long time ago when I first time bought Intel based Extreme motherboard … I decided if I need to pay over 300 $ for CPU … I will rather buy and pay for Xeon , why? coz damn thing is much better and stronger CPU then Extreme Desktop or factory OC CPU … and price is more or less same for Extreme Desktop CPU and for Server (at least at Intel) … what’s always funny to me is that people think that the server processor is not good for gaming … (I’m not sure why they think on that way) but most of that people who post such nonsense on forums … never actually used Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron Server CPUs …
only what i hate and regret is that AMD is not bothering to make the middle class server CPU like Xeon E3 … So most likely i will skip hype train around Intel 7xxx Desktop crap on Z170 and go directly for Xeon E3 v5 /v6 … On the other hand AMD’s new Zen does look tempting … but first I would like to see CPU in real action … on very new MBOs with new updated chip-set … till that moment … I will not even think about it …
Mark2K77 I am interested in benchmarks too. I may make the switch to server some day as well.
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What’s funny is most gamers don’t even come close to utilizing an i7 anyway. I rock the mid range cpus
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When I moved platform to 1150 I had considered a Xeon very seriously, however did not see anything I liked on the socket type. I think Xeon would be great for gaming, especially the physics. Not techy enough to know if my theory is correct.
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ShiftySatchmo said in AMD's new Zen-based $499 CPU beats Intel's $999 CPU:
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that is the funny part 
but it is a hype train … laughing part is VTO technology on most of those CPU … I’m very sure that 95% of PC abusers don’t even try to use virtualization technology or even know what it is … or use more than 2 CPU core at once most of the time … or use some other advance technologies … but they must have damn CPU
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ShiftySatchmo said in AMD's new Zen-based $499 CPU beats Intel's $999 CPU:
What’s funny is most gamers don’t even come close to utilizing an i7 anyway. I rock the mid range cpus
Biggest reason for an i7 is for streamers who need the additional threads for the game, encoding, etc.
Why 6 sticks of ram? What mobo?
Trainsmash trust me works like a charm 
and best part I play games on Windows server 2012 R2 … and of course i can play with virtualization
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Trainsmash 2 MBOs 
32 GB on Intel® Desktop Board DZ87KLT-75K with Xeon E3 1241 and 16 GB on Intel® Desktop Board DP55KG with Xeon X3480
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Mark2K77 I’m abusing it at work on my I7 xD But I know what you mean
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Mark2K77 said in AMD's new Zen-based $499 CPU beats Intel's $999 CPU:
Trainsmash 2 MBOs
You should totally make a full build list for your system! I’d love to move into the server CPU space some day.
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