Eh, i expected more, looking past the fanboyism and looking at the reality.
Price + cooling required + X570 cause you aint putting a B450 on that, we are talking average cost of 1000 or 1100 $ without even counting differences, so easy 1.4k euro minimum at my country for example just for CPU/Mobo/Cooling.
Speaking about gaming, its a massive fail considering the cost/downclocking as expected, 3900X is the sweet spot to be honest if we dont go the Intel way, price/performance wise.
Considering it performs worse on equal even at most 2K resolution reviews to the rest, while costing almost double or triple since you have to include 100% needed extra cooling.
And speaking professionals, i really dont believe there are many actual professionals that will choose this over a Threadripper 3 series thats coming out.
Its a gloat CPU at the moment, but hopefully and knowing AMD it will go down quick enough to make it worthwhile.
Dont get me wrong, i was very close to getting it also cause of the itch but the thermal requirements + reality that 16 cores are massively useless for the majority of the human race still