My RIG for 2021 - how much will it come down in price?

[Rodimus]

Hello all,

 

 

I'm saving my money to buy a rig next Xmas in 2021.

 

So far this year, I got a quote for around 6k for this specification from a few UK resllers. Do you think it will come down in price for around £4500-5000?

 

If it the price won't be much different than the 10900 when it first was released, I may settle for 8-10 Alder Lake CPU with a Z590 motherboard.

 

 

Components:

 

Monitor: Asus XG438Q

CASE: Phantek Enthoo 719

CPU: Intel Core i9 10900K Unlocked 10th Gen Desktop

GPU: RTX 3090 (third party)

Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus XII Hero

RAM: Corsair Vengence Platinum RGB DD4 64GB 3466Mhz

M.2: Samsung 970 Pro 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe (Windows)

M.2: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe

SSD: 8TB 870 QVO SSD 2.5” SATA 6GBPS

HDD: 16TB Seagate IronWolf Pro

SOUND: Integrated Motherboard

WIRELESS NETWORKING / BLUETOOTH: Integrated Motherboard

POWER SUPPLY: HX Series™ HX1200 — 1200 Watt 80 PLUS

OS: Windows 10 Professional

RGB LIGHTING: Corsair RGB LED Lighting PR

 

Cooling:

 

AOS: Corsair H100i RGB PRO XT

PASTE: Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on the CPU and GPU

FANS: EK-Vardar EVO 140ER Black BB (500-2000 rpm) – exhaust & EK-Furious Vardar EVO 120 x3 (case fans)

[jaslion]

Not? Things will be replaced and be outdated. Also 6k for that system geez how hard are you overpaying? Is this just for gaming?

[bellabichon]

I don't expect that prices will change that much, but... what is your methodology for putting this system together??? Several things make very little sense. For example, why do you need a 512GB NVMe boot drive, a 2TB slightly slower NVMe drive, an 8TB SSD and a 16TB hard drive? That's a colossal waste of money. 

[LogicalDrm]

-> Moved to New Builds and Planning

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Prices drop in two or three situations. One, there's new part that replaces current. Two, there's news competition on market that forces prices down. Three, there's more production than demand.

 

First will happen, close to end of next year when new parts are released. Second is unlikely to happen within single year, even though Intel is coming to GPU markets. Third will happen eventually, but it will take years considering we've had shortages and other high demand periods in recent years.

[Rodimus]

On 9/20/2020 at 9:42 PM, bellabichon said:

I don't expect that prices will change that much, but... what is your methodology for putting this system together??? Several things make very little sense. For example, why do you need a 512GB NVMe boot drive, a 2TB slightly slower NVMe drive, an 8TB SSD and a 16TB hard drive? That's a colossal waste of money. 

The NVMe is for Windows installation, 2TB NVMe for all my PC games (old and new), 8TB x2 to archive all my DVD, Blu-ray, UHD movies and emulation games, finally the 16TB will back up the two SSDs.