From what I heard so far, Ryzen 7 is set to arrive first. Ryzen 5 and 3 later on.

If I'm the type of user that dun like to OC, just wanted a good performance CPU out of the box, is Ryzen a good buy? 

As always, it's about the hype.

After so many years, there's nothing much on Ryzen. Might as well reduce their pricing more to compete.

The hype is real actually, the performance is good as it is.

Unfortunately some parties decide to add their own hype that performance in productivity / synthetic / multi-threaded application translates to gaming performance.

LOL case.

Seriously. What we see are FPS aka frames per second.

Even if AMD did product something that is exact or better than Intel, what you see is that the FPS numbers will be same because when the processor is same they just hit GPU limitation.

Some people are still not getting the point - I am referring to both AMD and Intel camps.

7700K is an obvious winner for gaming-only cpu. Before down putting Ryzen, Intel camp also need to realize that 7700K also game better than their more expensive 6900K and 6800K. In multi-threaded applications and synthetic benchmarks, R7 matches well with Intel HEDT system, but still loose at gaming. Why? It's all about the clockspeed.

This is the day of GPU being the main performance defacto of your system and gone are the days when MMX and 3D Now were the in-thing. You need a fast enough cpu to feed data to the gpu back and forth.

In gaming, raw clockspeed still has the most advantage in today's games. Ryzen did not lose to Skylake or Kabylake because of IPC, it's because of clockspeed. The gap in clockspeed is significant that extra cores do not give much advantage to overall performance. We can see the 1080p gaming comparison video by Joker Production (Youtube) where the 1700 while utilizing all-cores, the load is very low which means the games are not taking full advantage of the extra cores (a.k.a lazy cores).

What if Ryzen has the exact same clock speed as Skylake/Kabylake? But of course it's not the current situation here because it is hard for an 8-core Ryzen to match the clock of Kaby even with watercooling. But at 3.9GHz overclock, the performance is near to Intel 5ghz. The problem now is that with its base clock, some reviewers are reporting that Ryzen has issues with boost clock. Hardware Unboxed claimed that their 1800X is somewhat stucked at 3.7GHz on his Asrock Taichi board. And I have yet seeing any reviewer that actually analyzes how the boost behavior is on Ryzen. How many active cores are at specific boost clock?

It was different with the old Bulldozer architecture when its high clockspeed was not an advantage due to the FPU resource sharing. In layman's term you can say the performance of clockspeed advantage is cut into half (not literally).

There was another argument regarding gaming resolution. In real world, those with 4K monitors and capable GPU will game at resolutions higher than just 1080p. At 4K the cpu advantage is diminished. 1080p testing is only relevant ONLY IF you want to measure the cpu performance. 7700K wins, hands down, but is it an ideal real world situation? No. If we're being practical... if you have a 4K capable system you will game at 4k, not 1080p. 1080p testing is only if you're stucked with 1080p monitor and it's capable of outputting very high refresh rate. Otherwise, it just serves another bench and bragging right. At 4K gaming and very high end GPU, even the old FX can perform as well as the newer generation CPUs.

This is just some of my thoughts at the moment, will write again later once I have more ideas.

Tu la, average fps difference by 3 also condemn like silly.

LOL. They don't understand how average fps works.

If difference is 3 means the gaming experience difference is negligible.

Furthermore it's not on all games, so many games their benchmarks similar.

Many people very narrow minded, they thing brands like Intel and AMD release processor means for gamers.

Die lo if companies only think of gamers. And another thing is people only see "Current", they don't bother to understand what the Ryzen means for "Future".

The potential is huge, and the way it's positioned it will make Intel improve too.