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I've been overclocked since day 1 and had no problems.

will look into some of these mobo/chip combo deals on newegg next week probs. wanted to go ryzen but some intel superfan went balls to the wall to convince me to go intel before

Intel used to be dominant but they really let it slip for years and just kinda had nothing in response to Ryzen, not really sure what they did with all that time but it definitely wasn't innovating.

team red

I'll probably end up just going with the i9 to be honest. Yes, its pretty damn overpriced and offers the same performance as e.g. an I7-9700k more or less but I'm leaving quite a bit of upgrading room as I'm not planning on getting a job when I'm back in college which leaves me only with monthly government money to save up for new parts when they appear.

why don't you wait for the upcoming ryzen 3rd gen cpus? They're rumored to be very very good on their new zen2 architecture

i'd wait if i were you tbh

Ryzen supported the same motherboard socket for 4 years, meaning I can go from 2700X to 3700X if I want to without swapping mobo but Intel for some reason change it every damn year; It's a joke.

i heard AMD's stock coolers are actually good for OCing which seems pretty lit

Better than Intel's non-existant stock coolers. I used a Noctua cooler anyway.

im probably gonna stick with my noctua too unless this aio i want goes on sale

https://i.imgur.com/4aBr1YL.png
these are the rumors just fyi, take with a grain of salt but imagine what you could get for those 600 dollary doos on your cpu

Well I mostly need a CPU that'll last me a fair bit. I know this CPU will last me quite a while before it'll become obsolete and I'll just change out GPU's every so often when I feel the need to and when I have the money to as thats where the bottleneck obviously lies.

When are the 3rd gens coming out? I've got roundabout a month till I have enough to buy the entire setup.

two months or so

the picture axido posted actually looks quite promising tbf, double the cores and double the threads at higher boost and base clocks for less money doesnt really seem that bad. I would have to wait a bit to see tho from what this says.

whats the diff between the 'X' and 'G' CPUs?

Gs have integrated vega gpus and Xs are just higher performance versions, better oc's and stuff

X is "unlocked" even though all AMD cpus are unlocked and G has integrated graphics.

would it be advisable to get a G for any reason if i have a gpu card?

there's no point to doing that

Nah, get the regular ones. the X is great but like I said they're all overclockable anyway.