Buy now or wait for the holidays?

[A.clint000]

I'm about ready to do a system overhaul, new MOBO, CPU, and RAM. I am trying to decide if I should wait until holiday time frame and hope there are some good deals, or buy now while microcenter is having a MOBO, CPU bundle discount. Thoughts?

 

The discount is $40 by the way.

 

Looking at getting a Ryzen 2600, ASROCK B450M Pro4, and Ripjaws RAM, 2X8GB

[Streetguru]

35 minutes ago, A.clint000 said:

I'm about ready to do a system overhaul, new MOBO, CPU, and RAM. I am trying to decide if I should wait until holiday time frame and hope there are some good deals, or buy now while microcenter is having a MOBO, CPU bundle discount. Thoughts?

 

The discount is $40 by the way.

 

Looking at getting a Ryzen 2600, ASROCK B450M Pro4, and Ripjaws RAM, 2X8GB

The price isn't going to go down much if any, but what's your budget for everything there?

Should also buy the RAM seperately and get a 3600mhz kit for your future Ryzen 4000 CPU, newegg has a good deal on a CL 16 kit
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/jBZzK8/gskill-ripjaws-v-16-gb-2-x-8-gb-ddr4-3600-memory-f4-3600c16d-16gvkc

Or just save up a bit more and get a Ryzen 5 3600 and an MSI B450 board for it's USB bios flashing.

[SupaKomputa]

You may get a discount on older stuff like the 2600, but for newer ones it's probably the same.

[A.clint000]

1 hour ago, Genwyn said:

Actual good holiday deals are few and far between. Its usually just what you would find as a normal sale price but blown up for black friday and all that. If you can get a good deal now on a combo, go for it. It wont be much different in a few months.

 

Thank you. That's what my suspension was but I haven't really price tracked this kind of thing before.

 

42 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

The price isn't going to go down much if any, but what's your budget for everything there?

Should also buy the RAM seperately and get a 3600mhz kit for your future Ryzen 4000 CPU, newegg has a good deal on a CL 16 kit
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/jBZzK8/gskill-ripjaws-v-16-gb-2-x-8-gb-ddr4-3600-memory-f4-3600c16d-16gvkc

Or just save up a bit more and get a Ryzen 5 3600 and an MSI B450 board for it's USB bios flashing.

 

I didn't think it would necessarily get cheaper, but I just wasn't sure.

 

My budget is 250, and with all the parts I listed before, I come in at 248 with tax. CPU is 120, MOBO is 45, with the discount, and the RAM is $60. I was thinking about getting faster RAM, but the next step up, including the 3600 Ripjaws is usually $20 more, and price is the biggest player for me. Also, the 3600 is $70, at best, so that's out

[A.clint000]

25 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

You may get a discount on older stuff like the 2600, but for newer ones it's probably the same.

Yea, the price reduction is what drove me right to the 2600. It looks the like the discount that MicroCenter is doing is to sell of the B450 MOBOs

[brob]

3 minutes ago, A.clint000 said:

but I haven't really price tracked this kind of thing before.

 

The product page of an item on pcpartpicker includes a price tracker. One see up to two years of history in a graph format.

[A.clint000]

1 minute ago, brob said:

 

The product page of an item on pcpartpicker includes a price tracker. One see up to two years of history in a graph format.

Right, the chart shows the retail price, but it's limited. It only shows stores that report their prices and doesn't always inculde sale prices or bundle discounts, and the bundle discount that is offered right now ($40) is a big deal for parts like this.