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I hadn't looked at prices in a few weeks. The R7-1700 is actually cheaper at retail than the i5-8400 now? My goodness, eating a 70% overall inferiority at stock in today's post-core expansion market, an inferior stock cooler, the inability to overclock, and a MoBo socket with inferior longevity while paying more...that is rough.Just from the upgrade perspective, Ryzen to me makes it the obvious choice. If Intel continues their trend, the 10th series stuff will require a new board. Ryzen should have at least another release in their boards.
Intel still wins in IPC, there's no denying that. The AMD options aren't that far behind though.
Techdeals just did a video showing off Intel's IPC lead with the i3-8350k. In certain games that only use 2 or 4 cores like LOL, Overwatch, Rocket League, and other esports titles the 8350k will beat anything that AMD offers in the desktop platform. But when you switch to modern AAA games that use more than 4 cores, AMD stuff will beat the pants off of it. Even if I only played the games listed, would I buy the 8350k? Definitely not.
Nevertheless, maybe you can link that Techdeals vid, because I couldn't find it, and the i3-8350K and i5-8400 still run circles around the R7-1700 in almost every game ever made. They were already hammering the R7-1700 at stock in even the best mutlicore scalers (DX12 and Vulkan AAA titles) from late 2017; you know, the benchmark all-stars like Ashes of the Singularity which are probably benchmarked more than played. For pure gamers it's really hard to argue against them even on value.
I watched the Gamer's Nexus Cooler Master H500P review. I'm not sure what Steve did to irritate you with that video. Are you sure you didn't mean the original H500P review? He was really anal retentive in the H500P one (about the panel materials, the lack of clasping, build quality, etc). It seems like he let his mostly trivial pet peeves fill the first half of the video, and was sort of subjecting the viewer to the same punishing unease he personally experienced as part of that tick. I could understand if that review rubs you the wrong way.