13 minutes ago, F737NG said:

Bob, while I was trying not to explicitly promote AMD (I did say that I think that prices for both manufacturers' CPUs should fall following Zen 2 release in a fortnight), I believe that it's not a lock for Intel any longer on single-thread performance.

Many technically competent, independent reviewers have spoken very positively about the 15% IPC improvement, the smaller 7mm architecture, 35MB+ cache and lower wattage TDPs that the new Ryzen series will have.

With the better pricing also, you would be silly not to at least give consideration to the new Ryzen as a build option.

Agree on the Noctua NH-D15 air cooler.
I'm a big fan of the big fan... 
 

I will definitely consider it.  If I can be confident that something like the Ryzen 7 3700X or 3800X is going to boost performance I will very much consider it.  It's funny, the thing the Micro Center guy said he likes about the Ryzen 2700 is I will get much better improvement from the core, where it is most needed for P3D (as opposed to the GC).  Obviously there are people here that would take him to task on that.  Likely more than one right answer and certainly many wrong ones which leaves me scratching me head.  He did at least tell me I might want to wait a couple weeks to see what happens when the new one comes out.  Thanks all.

Bob

29 minutes ago, Greggy_D said:

Yep, the new Ryzen 3000 series are going to be something.

Ryzen 2 (Zen+...the current version) works absolutely fantastic in P3D.  There are other factors also:  price/performance ratio, multi-core performance (if you use other apps that take advantage of it), and especially power used.

Thanks Greggy, are you currently running P3D v4.5 with the 2700X 3.7GHz?

17 minutes ago, BobKinSTL said:

Thanks Greggy, are you currently running P3D v4.5 with the 2700X 3.7GHz?

A 2600x.  Runs beautifully.

As mentioned above, I'd wait until after the 7th and then we'll see some benchmarks for the new CPUs.

Sounds like a plan, thank you.