I think I might try...

[Geek Jed]

Hi guys, I think I might try Ryzen in the next few months. Even though I pretty much just got a z170 setup. I heard and read about it's performance compared to the 2011 sockets: 6800, 6850, 6900. I read about it and I figured I just gotta get a Ryzen 1800.

What you guys think? Should I dump my Kaby Lake system and get it?

 

[greens]

Wait for benchmarks. Even if you preordered a CPU today... Kind of hard to use it without a motherboard available for purchase!

 

[Chugalug_]

Ditto, looks very promising though, they're boasting 52% IPC gains instead of the initially advertised 40%, see how it pans out.
@OP, if you're doing rendering work their high end CPUs are definitely going to be killer.
For gaming though stick to intel.

 

[Geef]

I totally agree with Greens, wait for benchmarks. I'm sure the processor will be great but "how great" is what we want to wait for.

 

[refillable]

If you can make a great use of the Ryzen processors, that'd be brilliant. However, trading the Kaby Lake config seems to be quite a waste of resources to me (unless you don't mind).

 

[Geek Jed]

Thanks guys for the feed back, you gave me a lot to think about.
But, let's not end on that note, keep talking about Ryzen.