AMD has RYZEN!!

[Dirk Broer]

Asrock AM4

Asrock has two top models, the Fatal1ty X370 Professional Gaming being the most elaborate and expensive (329 Euro's here) one, specially meant for gamers.
The slightly less expensive (279 Euro's here) X370 Taichi only misses out on the second 5 GB ethernet port of the X370 Professional Gaming.
Looking at the presently cheapest boards (those with the B350 chipset), I noticed that the AM-350M and AB350M-HDV are limited to CPUs with a TDP of respectively 95 and 65 Watt and both only support two sticks of RAM (up to 32 GB with two 16 GB modules), Asrock claiming that you may use DDR4 2400/2133 ECC & non-ECC, un-buffered memory in this case (ECC & non-ECC not at the same time I guess). The more expensive boards support up to 2667 MHz RAM, but not four sticks in all four slots at that speed.

[Dirk Broer]

After the Ryzen 7-series -that can be compared to Intel's Socket 2011-3 offerings- AMD introduced the Ryzen 5-series that take on Intel's Socket 1151 i7-line, having either 4 cores/8 threads or 6 cores/12 threads at a price that makes you smile, compared to the i7 prices.