Build or wait fo Ryzen?

[CFstorm]

Should I build my 6900K computer or wait for ryzen?

[Himommies]

RYZEN.Intel might lower their prices to compete with RYZEN.If it's a business thing though get a 6900k now 

[os2wiz]

32 minutes ago, CFstorm said:

Should I build my 6900K computer or wait for ryzen?

Wait until the end of February when Ryzen will be available . It just is going into mass production and will take about 6-7 weeks to fill the channel. It now has a base speed of 3.6GHZ and will have a final production turbo boost of 4GHZ. At this speed it will equal or surpass 6900K in virtually all tasks, It will perform in games very close if not equal to 6900K as well. I expect the price to be no more than $600, at least $400 less than Intel's pricing for 6900K. AMD X370 motherboards which have a feature set equal to Intel x271 will be slightly less than the Intel boards. Get either the Gigabyte high end x370 board (they have 2 such boards get the one with the higher power phasing for the vrms) or the MSI x370 Titanium gaming board, they are both good. Asus has been slow to announce the high end boards for Ryzen so I can't say anything about what they have in the works. You will get a substantial bang for the buck with the Ryzen octacore with no loss of performance.

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, os2wiz said:

Wait until the end of February when Ryzen will be available . It just is going into mass production and will take about 6-7 weeks to fill the channel. It now has a base speed of 3.6GHZ and will have a final production turbo boost of 4GHZ. At this speed it will equal or surpass 6900K in virtually all tasks, It will perform in games very close if not equal to 6900K as well. I expect the price to be no more than $600, at least $400 less than Intel's pricing for 6900K.

I am no way near as optimistic as you are about Ryzen however I agree he should wait since he needs a professional workstation, only worth already buying stuff now if you'll go for a gaming rig with the 7700k or non k.

[os2wiz]

5 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I am no way near as optimistic as you are about Ryzen however I agree he should wait since he needs a professional workstation, only worth already buying stuff now if you'll go for a gaming rig with the 7700k or non k.

I am not on an opium pipe. With AMD'shaving succeeded in raising the frequewncy of Ryzen up to 3.6 GHZ base frequency from the 3.4 GHZ at their New Horizon demo in December the performance  should equal that of 6900K in all important real world benchmarks. Even in gaming it will be quite competitive with the 6900K. In some tasks it will be superior. What are your reservations???