After reading a bunch of reviews and benchmarks I opted to replace my 3570K (that was running @4.1Ghz - was a particularly power hungry, and thus hot, chip) with a 7700K - the advantage in clocks and IPC gives a nice advantage compared to Ryzen, given that seldom simulation/sandbox games are optimized to multicore. I truly hope that by the next CPU gen 8 cores (or even 4 lol) will help with performance.