Keep waiting or buy what I can now and upgrade the GPU later?

Mr_Ozzie · August 14, 2020

Im looking at building a completely new PC from the ground up (by no means new to this part)

However I have been waiting for Nvidia/AMD to unveil their new GPU (as I'm sure many of you have been as-well)

While I already know that every other aspect of my build is currently available and i already have a GTX1070. Would it be worth buying every other part assembling it with the 1070 and then purchasing the new card as planned or wait until new card launch and then purchase everything?

Oswin · August 14, 2020

its best to wait, considering we are just a couple of weeks a way from ampere release, zen 3 and big navi should follow after.

Najila42 · August 14, 2020

You can never know if anything you plan on already buying may be on sale when it's time for Nvidia to unveil their gpus. Also, there might just be some other component that comes out in the future that you would prefer over the one's you already bought. I think the best advice is, buy everything together unless there is something that really should be bought now (like a psu that's on a supersale)

flashiling · August 14, 2020

it depends,

your current system, is it able to do what you want it to do?

if your current system can't handle the gameplay you want to right now, then yes its most likely a good time to upgrade now (tho wait 1 week for the new gpu's to be announced)

if your current system can handle it but only on medium settings and not ultra, ask yourself if you're okay with that or not.