On 27 Nov 2017, Flasherly wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:

An AMD Ryzen at some advanced point pulls into parity with Intel
performance offerings at significantly, maybe half under Intel
pricing.

I looked into Ryzen CPUs, and it seems their support for Windows 7 is
poor or nonexistant. Their higher-end chips are not that much less
expensive than the Core i5 chips I'm looking at. If I was building a
more budget-minded computer, they would probably be under serious
consideration.