EPYC sure does look good on paper. But the big question in my mind is how will OEMs react to it. Will it be offered on equal footing in actual server systems from major brands (HP, Dell etc)? Most people won't be buying CPUs by themselves, so the list prices are mostly moot point. I do seem to recall that K8-era Opterons didn't do as well on the market as they could have been based on the HW alone. I fear we might see a reprise of that play again.