Interesting because the benchmarks for the next step ups are from $400s (The ones I pasted in benchmark) to 1000's for intel and 700ish for AMD; So I can flex a bit on AMD but not so much on intel. I'd be surprised if the i9 falls under $1000, or if you can get hands on it easily when it does come out at first.. Probably…
I've also been thinking about between AMD's Threadripper CPUs and Intel's CPUs. But Intel's next 9th generation i9-9900K 8c/16t and AMD's new Threadripper model 2920x is coming soon, so I'd wait for their benchmarks first... if you can be just a tad more flexible with your 400€ budget (I'm just assuming from the price…