eb2k

@eb2k This happened to me yesterday, and a BIOS reset never worked for me. I just put the reset jumper in, took BIOS battery out and left for two hours. Initially, it wouldn't boot (when I reset it and restarted it straight away) but after leaving for two hours, it worked fine

Totally forgot that the new CPU's will be compatible with my x470 motherboard. In that case, I will wait and see if I can afford the newer 3000 series, if not, then I will just purchase a 2nd gen for hopefully cheaper. Thank you for your input!

I was facing the same decision and the 2700 was on sale here for $100 less so I got that. runs at 4.0GHz all cores but still working on the overclock.
 
As long as your willing to put the time in to tune in an overclock then you should be able to achieve similar performance to a 2700x especially with that AIO cooler on it.
 
I'm not certain but you may be able to improve single thread performance by using p-state overclocking.

I was thinking more the used market... Lots of people will buy new chips, and may recoup some of the cost by selling their previous hardware.

Criticism because I'm being constructive. A month later both 2nd gen CPU will be previous gen, and unlike Intel you do get more benefits than just more cores (IPC goes up, memory controller and latency improves)
 
As for 2700X vs 2700, no need to pay more for the X chip. It runs faster by default but you can overclock to similar speeds yourself with the 2700 (tho single core speed will be a little worse). The cooler is also better, but nowhere near $80 better.

I was looking at the trends from when last time amd launches new processors between ryzen one and 2 and there was no real drop in price of 1st gen at time of launch of gen 2, it came much later. At least that’s what pcpartpicker showed

Perfect, So in that case I can use a PWM fan splitter plugged into the included fan hub and still access fan speed correct?

Don't bother buying another drive. Especially don't put your OS on a slower SSD (NVMe is much, much better than SATA). If anything, buy a HDD for mass storage (much better price to storage ratio).
 
"Much slower" is relative. It's still an M.2 NVMe SSD, and the difference will hardly be noticeable in day-to-day use. High used space mainly effects write speeds, not reads (and most workloads are read).

expensive.
970 evo 500GB is 30$ more expensive than corsair MP510 1TB, and performs within 5-10%. Corsair MP510 has more TBW per day than the 970 Pro 1TB (not the 500GB 970 evo, not the 1TB 970 evo, the 1TB 970 pro)
860 evo 1TB is 30$ more expensive than the NVMe Corsair MP510 1TB, and performs much worse. Corsair MP510 has longer warranty and TBW
860 Qvo is more expensive than 660p, etc.
860 pro is a joke,
970 pro 1TB is more expensive than 2 1TB MP510s, etc.