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[B-Riz]

Skylake-X Refresh isn't that bad in gaming. It's faster than the 2700X in general... beating Matisse is another story, but what the gap would be is hard to tell since so few reviewers included it, and the one I looked at (Computerbase) gave the 9900X and 9800X 2400 Mhz memory for some reason.

Yeah, but the 9900K made X299 mostly irrelevant, except for extreme use cases...

 

[VirtualLarry]

While the 3900X is the most expensive CPU I have ever bought, it actually feels like it is worth it to me

That's how I felt too, when the Ryzen R5 1600 came out, I bought several of them, at $230 a pop (approx.), my most expensive CPU purchase yet. (*I did purchase an i5-6400 once, for a K4/Hyper overclocking board, for nearly $200, that I re-sold to someone as a gaming rig.)

 

[BigDaveX]

Skylake-X Refresh isn't that bad in gaming. It's faster than the 2700X in general...

It depends on both the game and the CPU. The Skylake-X i9s generally aren't too bad in terms of gaming performance, but the i7s can put in some really sub-par gaming performance in some cases, dropping to Ivy Bridge-level performance, if not worse.

EDIT: Just realised you were talking about the newer models and not the original 7xxx-series ones.