AMD has Ryzen! - Price, Performance, & Launch Date

**AMD's Ryzen 7 1700: A Game-Changer in the CPU Market**

I promise you I will test that and we will see that being said this does not come with a cooler and it's $350 the the S the ryzen 7 1700 is $20 less and it includes a good cooler if you're going to use that cooler and install it on a less expensive motherboard and not worry about overclocking so much it's less expensive with double the core count think about that for a minute 8 threads 16 threads the 16 thread chip is less money and in multi-threaded tasks it'll be much faster and in single-threaded tasks it might only be 10 or 20% slower.

Intel you need to drop your price in fact if I was to give Intel advice I would say this chip needs to go to $299 at the most this chip needs to go to 1999 this chip needs to go to a whole lot less than it is and that's actually probably fine where it is for now we'll see what Intel's response is.

**A Complete Line of Motherboards**

82 motherboards are launching from every major motherboard company on launch day there will be hundreds available by the end of the year but the main boards that are launching from all the big companies Asus MSI gigabyte biostar ASRock and many more will be launching with both non overclock motherboards as well as the overclockable versions not all motherboards will overclock CPUs it's an important point that I'll cover when I actually get boards and get the CPUs and can do reviews but they will be ranging from very reasonable prices to very expensive prices depending upon the features that you want.

**System Availability**

Do you not want to build a computer do you want to buy one 19 Boutique high-end computer builders will have systems available on launch day Cybertron cyber power PC origin um IB power and many others I don't want to leave anybody out but they are going to all have systems available on day one with ryzen with liquid coolers with high-end graphics cards with high-end motherboards the whole nine yards clearly the industry sees what AMD has done here the manufacturers have gotten there the motherboard companies have seen it I've seen it I after watching the presentation watching the benchmarks and then watching the other videos been put out now.

**Industry Reaction**

I unfortunately did not get invited to the Press event if you're thinking that I secretly went to the Press event and didn't film a video while I was there yeah no I wish I had but uh Paul with Paul's Hardware and Kyle with bitwit and lonus with lonus tech tips all went by the way I'll link their videos in the description below CU they're worth a watch they're interesting and uh especially I thought it was quite funny when um Austin Evans decided to uh video bomb lonus when he was trying to do a video and he snuck up behind him and said something that's quite funny watch for that.

**A Presentation Worth Watching**

Ian Linus's video and then watch Austin Evans I'll link to his down below as well because then he films the reverse of it I don't know whether they staged that or not but it was quite funny in any case. March 2nd links to Amazon and New Egg for the CPUs links to a couple of the motherboards down there as well I'll link to a couple of the boutique Builders I will link to the video the presentation video from Lisa the CEO of AMD she did an excellent job with the video presented a lot of information it was very easy to follow she's clearly an engineering and Tech person at heart uh she says it I believe just watching her she really is excited about this this is one of the most important CPU launches in 10 plus years I'm very excited about it and I don't want to come across as just an AMD FanBoy or somebody who's ragging on Intel here because I've been an Intel supporter for a long time because their CPUs are so fast some of amd's Prior options weren't as quick I

**The Challenge to Intel**

I love good deals I love performance for the money and I don't care which company provides it I will support whichever company provides me with the most performance for the least amount of dollars right now that looks like that may very well be rising this year unless Intel comes back with something impressive so Challenge on you Intel impress us with your response show us that you see what ryzen is and either lower the prices or come out with something new or do something to make us all go wow.

**Questions and Comments**

questions and comments in the comment section below and as always check out the video description that's where all the good stuff is thank you so much I'll see you guys in a week with some benchmarks