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Thanks for the advice guys.. I'll check out the Zen 2... Is it expected that the new chips will come in at the same price as the current chips? And that will then bump the current chips price down as well?

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade my current system (which is based around an i7-3770k overclocked to 4.1Ghz and a EVGA hybrid 1070GPU).. Genernally i look for a system to be able to last me around 5 years accepting that I will need to upgrade the GPU during that time. It's been a while since I last built a rig, and have been doing a lot of reading.. However subject to what i'm reading it seems there's conflicting information about which CPU i should go for so I thought this would be the best place to ask for some help. Do i go for a thread ripper or i9? Budget : £2000 Location : UK Aim : I'm looking to be able to play current games and future games such as Star Citizen at full prettiness, to be able to play VR games, and to be able to stream them to Twitch (using OBS) at a high quality. I also play Kerbal Space Program which benefits from good single core processing power, but that would be secondary to being able to games like Star Citizen and streaming them. I need to be able to have a lot of USB devices plugged in and not cause conflicts (currently i have usb mic, joystick,throttle, MFD, streamdeck, Oculus DK2, TrackIR Pro, gamepad,Mouse, Keyboard, sound mixer, flight peddles. I'm learning blender and intend to carry on learning/using it I also edit short videos for family etc My current system has some SSDS which would be moved over to the new system (1x900Gb SSD and 2x240GB SSD's) I'd be looking to retire my old system to be the Bot PC running Chat,music,bot, Facerig (using OBS's NDI plugin) My current case is cool master Cosmos II .. I'd be looking to fit the new bits in that and move the old bits to as smaller case as i can get away with. I'd also be looking for the new system to be quiet. Monitors : Currently the system is running 3 monitors .. I'd be looking to only run 2 monitors with a 3rd virtual monitor for oculus desktop so i can pin "chat" to the desktop and be able to read that while playing VR games. Currently i'm playing at 1080, at some point i'd like to get a better monitor and play at higher resolutions.. as i say i'd like full pretty Peripherals: Currently running usb mic, joystick,throttle, MFD, streamdeck, Oculus DK2, TrackIR Pro, gamepad,Mouse, Keyboard, sound mixer. flight peddles. Running windows 10 Why are you upgrading? : As above, my old system can not cope with running modden games and streaming, even using GPU encoding with OBS my CPU is constantly flatlining at 100%. Thanks in advance Red