That's the second reason I didn't pull the trigger on an intel based system before, now with coffee lake, I was tempted again, it is a very powerful processor but it's just more of the Intel shenanigans we're used to seeing now, coffee lake has the same LGA 1151 socket as the previous Z270 chipsets, but will only work on Z370 chipsets because older Z270 boards are "electrically incompatible".

Knowing that I can get a Ryzen system now, and update the processor in three to four years time with something that will be way superior and not have to buy a brand new motherboard for it to work helped me to stop and do the research.

As soon as I have saved up enough I'm getting a Ryzen system.

And all of this not even taking into account the threadripper vs X299 discussion, which is just as crazy/disconcerting :)