Buy new PC now or wait?

[zakobi]

I was thinking on buying a new pc, after the GPU on my old died.

The old was a build with the q6600 and a 8800 (can't remember the exact parts and such, got it for free from a friend)

 

For my new i was thinking of a 2500k build with a 6870, but was wondering if it would be worth it to wait 'till a little after christmas? Heard some talk about ATI 7xxx in Q4 2011.

[Succellus]

IF you have the willpower to wait... wait. Even IF you don t want to buy The new latest stuff, the older series prices will be brought down.

 

USually video brands realease new stuff just before christmass, Late october, november or early december.

[emenance]

I always make final decisions on components around Christmas and put together my new main computers in Jan. ASAP. You see all the sales and get your parts right. If something goes wrong hopefully tech support is slow with holidays going on. Mine is 4 years old in Jan and plays Crises 2 with some vpu recover sometimes but overall just fine amped up.

[zakobi]

think i'll wait then, and just find a cheap card for my pc until then.

[EtherealN]

Yeah, if able to wait, it might be worth waiting at least until we get some more details on Sandy Bridge E and Ivy Bridge. That said, current Sandies are so cheap you can get a running system very very cheap and have it last for a long time. An i7 2500K with good mobo and RAM wouldn't run you much more than 3500 DKK, for example, assuming you are fine with re-using other components.

 

EDIT: I misread the OP, saw that your old GPU had died. Oops. :P

Well, as long as the PSU is good enough and still alive, you could still get away pretty cheap - add ~1500 DKK for a 560Ti, for example. :)

[zakobi]

I think i'll get a HD 6770 or HD 6790 (they are both under 1000 dkk with freight), and then build something with the i5-2500K after christmas with a card like the 560 Ti in a M-atx case (i wonder if we get a GTX660 Ti for successor to 560 Ti :D).

 

I do hope though, that for that time, the only retailer in denmark for the NZXT Vulcan, stops stocking the case. :(

Edited August 16, 2011 by zakobi

[Daze]

If you keep waiting for new parts coming out you will never buy a PC again in your life. If you aren't bothered about waiting for Ivybridge, Bulldozer, GTX 6XX series or AMD 7XXX series then I would go ahead and buy it now.

[zakobi]

If you keep waiting for new parts coming out you will never buy a PC again in your life. If you aren't bothered about waiting for Ivybridge, Bulldozer, GTX 6XX series or AMD 7XXX series then I would go ahead and buy it now.

 

I'm not going to wait forever, just untill around january, where there have come new pieces, and hopefully some good offers.

[RSharpe]

It's simple. If you need it now, buy now. If you don't need it now, wait until you do, then buy.

[leafer]

I'll wager 50 grand he cannot resist the urge.

 

Oh, you want me? How about a three-some, big boy!

 

[Daze]

AMD 7xxx series is out in Q4 2011, nvidia's 6xx series is out in Q1 2012 as is Intel's ivybridge.

I personally wouldn't wait.

[CarneyUK]

Don't wait...get a credit card, buy now, if something better comes out, buy again.......

 

You only live once and you can't take money with ya!! LOL

 

My credit card is maxed out now :D

[LawnDart]

Buy now and build!

 

Memory has never been cheaper. Newegg.com just ran a special today 16GB (4 x 4GB) Corsair Vengeance for $99.

 

There are plenty of "cheap" graphics cards that will own all games on today's market. (Look for the mid-range cards ~$200).

 

I'd get a P8Z68 mobo with a Sandy Bridge i7 2600K processor. That will hold you over a long time (or until you want something else too badly).

 

The only remaining components are relatively cheap. PSU, case, optical drive, hard drives (which BTW are also super duper cheap nowadays - WD Caviar Blacks 1TB+ sell for as low as $60).

 

You could have a killer system for around $1,000 (OS included - Win7 Pro 64bit) if you're building yourself.

 

 

My 2c.

[Boberro]

I'd buy now. You'll never buy new PC if you're constantly looking for cheaper and better components. Always when you get your PC to home, it is old cause new ones are leaving factory in this moment.

[EtherealN]

What boberro said. The only case when you really should wait is when there's something coming that you know will imminently change the selections - for example, if we knew for sure that Sandy-E or Ivy was coming next month, I'd say wait. But aside from an imminent generation switch in either CPU or GPU, might as well buy now.

[Kuky]

It's never ending game about wether to buy current or wait for future (better) hardware... if you wait for future, when ever that comes it will be more expensive and you'll then have news about even newer hardware and cycle never ends.

 

Mind you, if it's true that new ATI HD 7000 series come out on 28nm process, they will be a very good improvement over current top video cards BUT you can bet your a** they will be very expensive also (no one will give double the performance for little more money and as with most hardware goes, the more you go towards top end, the more the price keeps going up... it's not linear) My guess is if currently you pay $400 for top end ATI card... and new ones are 2x as fast, they will be 3x more expensive ;)

[EtherealN]

Yeah, one possible advantage of waiting for a new generation is essentially to try getting your "old" kit cheaper. This works better for GPU's than CPU's though. (The prices for old C2D's were loltastic far into the i2/i5/i7 generation...)

 

Generally, only wait if you know something you want is literally right around the corner, as in a solid release date that is just a month or two ahead. Not rumors or anything like that, solid release date.

 

That incidentally is the reason why Apple notoriously never warns customers that they're set to update their lineup - they don't want people to hold off on purchasing a MacBook through knowing that if they wait 2 weeks they'll get twice the performance at the same price point. :P

[hitman]

So here is a sensible question: if it plays A-10C maxed out just as well as any other system, why go balls to walls?

 

Get what you need and build it yourself. Cannibalise your old computer, replace the mobo, ram and cpu. No reason why you should spend the extra 2000 bucks or more to make a system run 2% better than what you had.

[zakobi]

Don't wait...get a credit card, buy now, if something better comes out, buy again.......

 

You only live once and you can't take money with ya!! LOL

 

My credit card is maxed out now :D

 

I'm pretty sure that is a stupid idea, as long you are a student without income beside SU (Economic support for students.) :P

[Icarus2]

AMD 7xxx series is out in Q4 2011, nvidia's 6xx series is out in Q1 2012 as is Intel's ivybridge.

I personally wouldn't wait.

 

That's what I'm waiting for....Ivybridge. Ivybridge i7 sockets release this March, but the new LGA 2011 will follow for enthusiasts (probably code for expensive LOL).

 

With its PCI-E 3.0 and 22 nm technology, its going to be much faster clock for clock than Sandybridge. It will have double the transistor density of Sandy Bridge, but also support memory speeds up to 2133MHz and base clock overclocking. By overclocking the motherboard makers can offer memory speeds up to 3000MHz.:thumbup:

 

3 Ghz memory speed, can't wait!

[EtherealN]

Memory overclocking... the biggest numbers-hunt ever. You really should only count on it actually being advantageous for scientific computing with very large datasets.

[Icarus2]

Memory overclocking... the biggest numbers-hunt ever. You really should only count on it actually being advantageous for scientific computing with very large datasets.

 

Yah, your right on that. It sounds good though. 3 ghz ram LOL

[KaspeR32]

That's what I'm waiting for...

 

3 Ghz memory speed, can't wait!

 

You mean you can wait? lol

[KaspeR32]

i7 990X Extreme @ 3.46GHz, 130W -$999

 

i7 2600K @ 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo), 95W - $314

 

Better CPU for less, why wait?

Edited September 1, 2011 by KaspeR32

[EtherealN]

By 2.4, I'm sure you mean 3.4? ;)

 

Your story isn't the whole one though - 990 has six cores, which will make it the better CPU for rendering jobs and scientific computing. (The triple-channel memory interface also helps in some applications, usually scientific or server oriented.)