anayman_k7 wroteIf you dont need the extra cores of the 3700x I suggest you go with the 3600x which at 50$ extra gives you a 95w cooler and a higher boost clocks, 6 cores / 12 threads are very good for productivity workload also, in games the 3600x is very good and only beaten by Overclocked intel 9600k, 9700k and 9900k which with the added cost of the cooling and Z motherboard will probably be close the double of the Ryzen counterpart
3600x get behind the i5 9600k(none OC) in many titles not the i7 9700k and i9 9900k , untrue generalization mate.
3600 vs 3600x vs i5 9600k
https://youtu.be/Q0_DBUJrWl4
Stock to Stock
The i7 9700k and i9 9900k beat , even without any IPC change & on refined 14nm lithography vs 7nm , the R9 3900x(AMD current Top Dog ) in tightly threaded & lightly threaded situations which games often release , in which Anandtech highlighted and my own testing of 3900x vs i9 9900k . You Do not want to OC them at all , i9 9900k tips as boost clocks without any OC
5Ghz on the 1st & 2nd Cores
4.8Ghz in the 3rd & 4th Cores
4.7Ghz on the on 5th , 6th , 7th , and 8th Core
Similarly i7 9700k
4.9Ghz on the 1st & 2nd Cores
4.7Ghz on the 3rd & 4th Cores
4.6 Ghz on the 5th , 6th , 7th , and 8th Core
Even
The 9700 (non K) that comes with a Cooler can boost to 4.8Ghz ( On All Cores) with MCE Enabled.
The Three Options < 3900x price , Zen 2 are not for masses now as AMD usual trend. Added with X570 to fully utilize max features including (PCI E Gen 4) which to me a marketing gimmick and selling hype , not even an RTX 2080ti can saturate PCI E Gen 3 16x Bandwidth (32 GB/Sec) and PCI E Gen 5 is already ready.
They Still Lag behind & ironically vs an aging 14nm Skylake based architecture.
For the Prices , they are not any more for the "masses" : -World Wide MSRP
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X: $499 (about £390, AU$720)
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X: $399 (about £310, AU$580)
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X: $329 (about £260, AU$480)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X: $249 (about £200, AU$360)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600: $199 (about £160, AU$290).
+ new x570 board for the extra lanes of PIC Gen 4 & speed utilization.
i7 9700 ~ USD 330
I7 9700k ~ USD 360
i9 9900k ~ USD 488
Truth hurts vs fake perceptions of marketing hype. Always catch a year later with AMD.
For cooling even an EVO 212 is suffient to cool at OC CPU , when you have the proper competence to tweak the Bios settings for a proper OC.