100% its going to be a beast. lets just hope AMD has the intelligence to thin out that IHS. Intel did for their 12th gen chips, or 11th gen, can't remember. and it improved temps a lot for Intel. not sure why AMD would not have learned from Intel's recent mistake on this, but eh what can you do. i don't make six figures, they do. so that's that. they the smart ones.
I don't think it's the same, from what I remember they shaved the die itself and not the IHS, either way AM5s here we go? Adjusting the height is a simple fix and mount adapters would basically be a couple washers, it's what they should have done from the start (though also changing hole pattern helps prevent user errors but not really necessary, just rtfm)
I think AMD knew that a Zen4 X3D at launch would have muddied the waters too much and would have made the 7950X look less appealing.
Yes, but so will the launch of zen4 x3d so close to the original, which they'll need to do because zen4 came short against Raptor Lake (even though Intel is using e cores which muddies the water a lot, they win on the marketing front).
I don't know what their plan will be, it will probably make some people angry for buying in early but tech moving fast is a good thing anyway.
EU gets shafted as per usual ( member those AM5 mobo + CPU + ram deals exclusive to NA ) , thank you AMD. Oh well im sure Europeans can return the favor to AMD !
Check geizhals, the prices are pretty in line if you account for the added VAT