New PC Build

[Andrew McCoy]

Budget (including currency): 2000-3000 Canadian

Country: Canada

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: World Of Warcraft, Call Of Duty, Streaming

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Looking at parts to buy now and in the future (reason for 1k budget difference), need to be able to run off wifi (no hardline where im living right now but will have in future) also its my first build and im nervous about doing watercooling for the first time and screwing it up so would rather run off fan cooling. Running 1 monitor right now but will be running 2-3 in the future.

 

[Oswin]

welcome to the forums!

 

zen 3, ampere, and big navi is coming out real soon. with this budget, its best to wait imo unless you really need a system now.

[Avocheeseado]

I would recommend waiting for new hardware.

[Andrew McCoy]

i was gonna wait for boxing day sales and cyber monday sales to really buy the big hardware but i want to get a parts list ready so i can look at smaller stuff such as getting a case and ram and stuff like that that i can get a store till building, or is it better to just get everything at once?

 

[Fred Derf]

Case selection you can do now, along with power supply (but note PS prices are high and 3-4 months from now could be very different) and cooling options (your choice of case will affect your choice of cooling or vice versa). But how are you going to choose things like motherboard, CPU, or GPU when they haven't even been announced yet? Until you know what RAM is supported (DDR5?) you can't choose it.

The expensive components are the parts you're waiting for to decide on what to get, don't worry about the minor things, especially when you don't know what your specs are going to be.

What I would suggest is to nail down your case selection to a short list (3 or 4 you would be happy with) and then for the rest of the components simply make a list of your requirements and to better define your budget. $500 for the CPU and $1,000 for the GPU doesn't leave you much form your $2,000 budget for case, power supply, motherboard, RAM, storage and cooling. And bling?

Once you have your requirements sorted out and your case short listed, start watching prices and jump on anything that comes on a really good sale.

My number one rule for buying computer stuff, buy what you need when you need it. There will always be something bigger, better, cheaper right around the corner. So you're going to wait until January to do your build, that's 5-6 months of not having a new computer, what's that worth?

[Andrew McCoy]

i have a computer i just really need an upgrade, my current computer is just a stock pre built HP Envy from like 5 years ago, and in the last year or so its progressivly gotten slower and slower on start up and opening programs and stuff