TaigaAisaka wrote Made a little mistake as I forgot to link the article I read about it. It mentions their entry level 16-core apparently/rumoured to be costing about $850. I'm taking it with a grain of salt, even if it's a little off, but I still see AMD pricing it very aggressively against Intel. At the same time though, I wouldn't doubt if x299 and x399 motherboards start at the $400 range, with the mini-ITX boards of course being cheaper, but those will more than likely be a little scarce for now.

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Yeah, I seen a couple of posts/videos about it, but I really doubt they'll be selling a 16C/32T chip for $850. Even with the 1800x dropping to $450 from $500. Assuming they'll have two variants of each core count chip, a vanilla, and an X model, that would put pricing like so;
10C/20T - $500, "X" - $550
12C/24T - $600, "X" - $650
14C/28T - $700, "X" - $750
16C/32T - $800, "X" - $850

Obviously that's just a total guess, based on assumptions, but still, I very much doubt $850 for top end ThreadRipper CPU. It would be insane if they sold top end ThreadRipper for that low, but I'm thinking more around the $1000 range, at least for 16C/32T.

As for motherboards, I'm positive we'll see X299 boards for $250. I couldn't even make a guess as to what price you'll be able to get an X399 mobo for though lol, I just don't have a clue.

TaigaAsaka wrote Truth be told, I'm starting to stray away from RGB. I've been with RGB for like 3 years now and it's starting to get stale. I've normally done builds with colours that you wouldn't get from single lightning on most motherboards such as pink, purple, orange, ect. Now I'm just wanting to get a board that has minimal LEDs on it such as the ROG STRIX x299 or the EVGA X299 Dark; if I want to do custom colours again, I could still use the LEDs on those boards, have the cables painted and then RAM or anything else, could take apart and use metallic spray paint for something such as black and gold theme going. Hell, I've even started turning the LEDs off my keyboard now lol. Whether I go with x299 or x399, I think I'm going to go for a minimalist look seeing how tempered glass cases are looking nice as of late and I feel having less of a light show inside them looks better in my opinion. Either way, I'm liking both x299 and x399, but as 13 has stated, both look messy right now, with Intel really needing to get things in order, seeing how motherboard manufactures don't even know what the hell is going on, which makes it seem Intel rushed the new chipset and their 18-core CPU without any clock speeds because they needed something to try and "tame" AMD right now.

I mean, I'd rather have RGB LEDs than static colour, but it doesn't really bother me that much at all. That said, EVGA's X299 FTW K looks really nice IMO, with that honeycomb design. One of the first implementations of LEDs that actually stood out to me. Everything is going a bit too RGB these days though, some simple RGB LEDs are nice, but when every component in your system is lit up, it looks pretty ridiculous. I've seen people running systems with RGB LEDs on case, motherboard, RAM, GPU, CPU cooler, PSU, and then even having LED strips. That's just too much, it looks sickening lol.