Should I wait?

[aldehe777]

Hi, I was planning on building a computer but for stuff, I won't be able to get ahold of all the components until december. I was planning on buying the components one by one if a good deal shows up, however I was wondering if this would be a good thing to do, especially with RAM, graphics card and CPU. Since it is predicted that RAM prices start to normalize, volta will show up and who knows what ryzen will be released all in early 2018. So what's your opinion, should I build the pc component by component if a good deal shows or would it be better to wait until early 2018 to buy them, especially RAM, CPU and GPU.

GPU - Gtx 1080

CPU - Ryzen 5 1600

[LienusLateTips]

Covfefe Lake is coming which I think will beat the Ryzen 5 in gaming (obvs) and maybe almost get it in rendering.

[aisle9]

3 minutes ago, aldehe777 said:

Hi, I was planning on building a computer but for stuff, I won't be able to get ahold of all the components until december. I was planning on buying the components one by one if a good deal shows up, however I was wondering if this would be a good thing to do, especially with RAM, graphics card and CPU. Since it is predicted that RAM prices start to normalize, volta will show up and who knows what ryzen will be released all in early 2018. So what's your opinion, should I build the pc component by component if a good deal shows or would it be better to wait until early 2018 to buy them, especially RAM, CPU and GPU.

GPU - Gtx 1080

CPU - Ryzen 5 1600

IMO, snapping up deals as they come along is the best way to buy a new-parts PC. When you play the whole "wait for X" game, you find yourself either overpaying for X because everyone wants it at release, discovering that X is totally underwhelming and you should have just bought the thing that was on sale two months ago, or both (looking at you, Vega).

[aisle9]

1 minute ago, JDE said:

Covfefe Lake is coming which I think will beat the Ryzen 5 in gaming (obvs) and maybe almost get it in rendering.

A select few people know exactly what it can do.

[aldehe777]

Just now, JDE said:

Covfefe Lake is coming which I think will beat the Ryzen 5 in gaming (obvs) and maybe almost get it in rendering.

Altough I also think that, I want to support AMD. Maybe a foolish decision but one I want to stand by.

[aldehe777]

1 minute ago, aisle9 said:

IMO, snapping up deals as they come along is the best way to buy a new-parts PC. When you play the whole "wait for X" game, you find yourself either overpaying for X because everyone wants it at release, discovering that X is totally underwhelming and you should have just bought the thing that was on sale two months ago, or both (looking at you, Vega).

That's what I was thinking, needed some reassurance tho. Thank you.

[brob]

1 minute ago, aldehe777 said:

That's what I was thinking, needed some reassurance tho. Thank you.

Other side of the coin. Buying parts that can't be checked out for several months means a warranty return at best rather than a merchant exchange. Besides, memory, ram and storage are pricey at the moment and gpu are not only expensive buy the top end can be hard to get.

 

Even if you were buying everything today, I would suggest waiting a month or so to see if Coffee Lake delivers on the promised 30% performance improvement. The wait is relatively short and the performance bump if it materializes would be significant.

[DocSwag]

If you're not building for a few months then don't buy yet. 

 

EDIT: Unless you get a good deal on something, of course

[aldehe777]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

If you're not building for a few months then don't buy yet. 

 

EDIT: Unless you get a good deal on something, of course

Yes, I was thinking in good deals like if the 1080 got to around 450 dollars (in my country the normal price is $600) and things like that.

[aldehe777]

3 minutes ago, brob said:

Other side of the coin. Buying parts that can't be checked out for several months means a warranty return at best rather than a merchant exchange. Besides, memory, ram and storage are pricey at the moment and gpu are not only expensive buy the top end can be hard to get.

 

Even if you were buying everything today, I would suggest waiting a month or so to see if Coffee Lake delivers on the promised 30% performance improvement. The wait is relatively short and the performance bump if it materializes would be significant.

Yes, the warranty is probably the biggest downside, but like I said I'll support AMD ryzen at the moment even if Coffe Lake delivers. Thank you for the answer tho.