If you don't need the extra horsepower for productivity, then the 7800X3D is a great CPU for gaming, and extremely efficient at it as well.
And Intel didn't fix the problem. Read the article again and you'll see an update confirming that the disconnecting issues still happen. That update tries to mitigate the problem, making it less common, but it still happens.
Please excuse my bad English.
Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070
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