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I'm optimistically looking forward until the independent benchmarks on March 2nd.

The NDA on benchmarks is supposedly set to expire on February 28. [0]

Not sure why this PC World article is coming up now. There have already been many stories on Ryzen pricing and the release date of March 2 has been known for several days now... [1]

Product lauch video [2]

[0] http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-reviews-live-february-28th-tes...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/5urylu/when_does_...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v44wWAOHn8

It was known, but not official until now. Also, preorders are now live.

[0] http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArticle&I...

Thanks

Just pre-ordered mine...:D (newegg)

Huh, I don't see them on Newegg yet.

Do a search for ryzen, they are there.

Thanks, I was trying to find them browsing by category.

That's funny, Ars Technica says reviews won't be out until launch day. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/amd-r...

Agreed. I really want to know how having two memory channels is going to play out for memory intensive workloads like in-memory databases and caches.

I've been wanting something wider to play with at home for a long time, but the AMD parts are slow, and the Intel parts are expensive and have expensive motherboards. I guess I don't want it that bad.

Intel motherboards are super cheap, the trick is to ignore the sucker options.

Have you priced an LGA-2011v3 board recently? The cheapest board on Newegg is 125$ for a refurb. To my knowledge you can't get >4 cores with Intel without stepping up LGA-2011v3 or similar.

The quad-channel boards genuinely cost more to manufacture. It's not clear how much more because almost all of them are intended as server or enthusiast boards and have other things driving up the cost.

If Intel marketed LGA-2011v3 as a mainstream option then I think it might be reasonable, but I really can't tell.

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