Hello homo sapiens,
I have a friend who currently has an I5 6500 and an MSI B150 Gaming M3, he tells me he wants to try Ryzen, he has a budget of 900$, i told him just go with a Ryzen 1700x and get an Asus prime motherboard or go with a 1900x Threadripper, he said he does not want the threadripper cause its not made for gaming which he does 100% of the time, then an idea popped into my head even though he wants to try Ryzen he could wait and get an 8th gen I7, so he told me to post on LTT what are peoples opinion, keep in mind he does want to try Ryzen so even if the 8th gen i7 is better he still wants try to it, ill leave it up to you homo sapiens.