If you game and do any sort of productivity/streaming, there's basically no reason to consider an i5 over these 6 cores.

Any possible issues i should be aware of when buying stuff from Amazon France, shipping to the UK ?

You are not interpreting my post as intended. Ryzen is good when rendering with the CPU. But many\most rendering is done with GPU acceleration. CUDA for example.

So if the one major benefit is video rendering, but most rendering is done on the GPU, the benefit is not really seen.

You have made a claim about min fps now multiple times even after I presented a min frame comparison that shows Ryzen behind. You are just repeating this unproven claim.

Prove your min fps claim. On the vast majority of games. It may even be hard to find 3.

Have these sold out?

The 1600 works out at GBP 211.79 through Amazon fr which isn't a great saving.

1600x is just pre-order and the price is a fair bit higher than stated in the OP

*1440p

It's all about 4K nowadays

Video rendering is one of the most CPU intensive workloads you can do.

Sometimes even background workload or alt-tabbing or steam or Windows will require some CPU time. It just makes sense to have more cores for future proofing, especially if the performance difference is a couple of fps for most games at 1080p

How? As I said on another Ryzen thread, as someone who has both - the Intel chip is going on eBay. Ryzen (with memory and updates) is there re max FPS (with reserves in the tank) and the min FPS is night and day. AMD all the way...

Thing is, in most games released nowadays, the i5 is maxed out 100% on all cores. Where as a 1600 or 1600x is only using around 70%. Quad cores arent cutting it.

Whut, pretty much every single review shows that if you are considering a new system at this price point then the 1600X is the only sensible option, given it runs at 3.6GHz/4.0GHz boost even the single thread performance will still be within a few percent of the i5/i7 K series chip(s) all running stock.

Yes, buy an i5 now if you want to waste your money, on a 4c/4t CPU, that is fast becoming irrelevant. I am pretty sure that if someone offered a 6800K CPU at £220, then it would be scorching hot, but it's slower than an i5... ooo see what I did there?

If you game and do any sort of productivity/streaming, there's basically no reason to consider an i5 over these 6 cores.

excellent!! cheers!!

I currently have 2666MHz RAM ready and am waiting for my 1600 to arrive,are the performance gaps between 2666 and 2933-3200 big enough to warrant returning the 2666 for a 2933-3200?

1600 comes with a cooler and can overclock to 1600X speeds easily https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B06XNRQHG4/

Is Ryzen still really picky about RAM?