The logic of these forums is just awesome:
AMD goes from awesome and accesible to the enthusiast threadrippers to Lenovo locked bs: "but but Threadripper beats the piss out of Xeons"
AMD takes away tuning from a single Ryzen SKU: "but but it is to limit RMA"
AMD does not release 1700x like SKUs in ZEN3 gen and rises ASP across the board for same core counts: "but but AMD can do no wrong"
It's the transformation of AMD from enthusiast friendly underdog is most likely the problem here, but i guess even if it was written on the wall, local ADF members would miss it.
That's not what I said genius. You said that if Intel was still stuck AMD would be releasing $1500 options presumable on AM4. I said that was nonsense because AMD is not price gouging with Threadripper where they absolutely destroy Xeons. AMD could easily charge a few thousand more but they have yet to do that.
No one supports Lenovo locking AMD CPU's to their boards so I don't know why you are bringing that up.
AMD increased prices with Zen 3 because the performance commanded it. If you wanted to argue that they didn't release lower end Zen 3 parts that would be different. Plenty of people wished they did but they could only produce so much on 7nm.
No one ever said that AMD can do no wrong, so why put that in quotes? Nice straw man. If you don't like AMD's products or practices, buy Intel and stop bitching. At the very least do it somewhere else because it is annoying and we don't want to see you complain just because. If you had a valid argument that would be different but I have yet to see one.
Apparently you thought AMD was good enough to buy a 5950X. What changed to sour your opinion of them so much?