The Ryzen-7 1800X is what the Bulldozer FX-8150, Vishera FX-8350 and FX-9590 should have been six years ago back in 2011. But we all know the epic fail that was.
The biggest draw back to me is that they still decided to go with a ZIF socket (pins) over a socket H3 type. With as many systems I have built over the years I am still nervous when it comes to dealing with processors and their pins!
The motherboards seem pretty straight forward and vanilla. The support from manufacturers has not been very great and all of the AMD4 X370 motherboards alll seem to follow the same cookie cutter mold with small varying differences . I hope that with a few months of the processors exposure more enthusiast models will become available.
The $499 price tag is a steal for what you are getting considering the Broadwell-E class Intel processors start at $1000.
I've been thoroughly enjoying my processor and hope that some decent overclocking guides will be written soon so that I may start the overclocking fun!
For now I will leave you with this snapshot I took while I was rebuilding my rig.
