Timmah!

Wait until Raptor Lake releases is my point; as EVERYTHING will be cheaper as INTEL & AMD compete for market share, regardless of which manufacturer or socket one is considering.

Intel's new chip- Raptor Lake - will be available October 20. Unlike AMD, the platform will be compatible with DDR4 AND DDR5, meaning you can save by not needing to buy a new mainboard or memory. It also means both Intel's & AMD's current offerings will be less expensive. Have read that Amazon is holding something like a second Prime day also around that time. So, just another few weeks. Woot.

It's that time of year:

He's chill.

Lol. One of my fave movies

Putain Poutine comes to mind.

Also: with the new architecture & platform, if you buy an AMD gpu to pair with the new Zen IV cpu's, the cpu will be able to use the GPU'S memory, when needed, during RAM-intensive processes like video editing, encoding. This is if you buy the new platform. I'd wait 'til the attendant bugs shake out that are inevitable with new platforms & standards being rolled out.

The shmooby-booby Woo-woo:

AMD is releasing new architecture & cpu's in a week from today. This means their current chips & architecture should drop in price even more, making for an excellent opportunity to buy at a great value. You should be able to get the 12 core 5900x for around $300 in the next week or two; an exceptional deal & more than enough for your requirements.

Those Fulkerson are MEAN! Kept one in a terrarium for a bit; would strike the glass so hard when I passed it made MY nose hurt. Not easily tamable like a king snake.

Magic Penis. A businessman was preparing to go on a long business trip, so he thought he'd buy his wife something to keep her occupied. He went to a sex shop and explained his situation. The man there said, 'Well, I don't know that I have anything that will keep her occupied for so many weeks, except... the Magic Penis!' The husband said, 'The what'? The man repeated, 'The Magic Penis,' and pulled out what seemed to be an ordinary dildo. The husband laughed, and said, 'It looks like a dildo!' The man then pointed to the door and said, ' Magic Penis door!' The penis rose out of its box, darted over to the door and started pounding away at the keyhole. The whole door shook wildly with vibrations, so much so, that a crack began to form down the middle. Then the man said, 'Magic Penis, return to box!' and the penis stopped and returned to the box. The husband bought it and took it home to his wife. After the husband had been gone a few days, the wife remembered the Magic Penis. She undressed, opened the box and said 'Magic Penis, my crotch.' The penis shot to her crotch.. It was absolutely incredible. After three mind shattering orgasms, she became very exhausted and decided she'd had enough. She tried to pull it out, but it was stuck. Her husband had neglected to tell her how to turn it off so she put her clothes on, got in her car and started for the closest hospital. On the way, another incredibly intense orgasm made her swerve all over the road. A police officer saw this and immediately pulled her over. He asked for her license, and then asked how much she'd had to drink. Gasping and twitching, the woman said, 'I haven't had anything to drink officer. You see, I've got this Magic Penis thing stuck in my crotch and it won't stop screwing me.' The officer looked at her for a second, shook his head and replied, 'Yeah right.... Magic Penis, my ass...!' The rest, as they say, is history...

If one were to submit a rotation, how many are ahead of it.

Thx. How many rotations in queue?

In addition to new chips, totally new platform with new architecture, ddr5, stacked memory on die, USB 5.0. I think, the ability of the cpu to use the GPU's ram if needed (if it's an AMD card, substantial increase in cpu clock rate...something on the order of 800 mhz...gonna run kinda hot with that bump in tdp...all the newest advances...

Get a 58 or 5900x...depending on how much multithreaded programs you run.