Gpu left over time

[Josh_86]

Hi, i am thinking of building my first pc the thing is i am gathering money over time so i am thinkingof buying the part practically month by month so i was wondering if i bought GPU and left it inside the box for around 1-3 months would anything happen to it?

[KarathKasun]

You wouldnt know if it works or not and would be beyond the sellers return time.

[PopsicleHustler]

5 minutes ago, Josh_86 said:

Hi, i am thinking of building my first pc the thing is i am gathering money over time so i am thinkingof buying the part practically month by month so i was wondering if i bought GPU and left it inside the box for around 1-3 months would anything happen to it?

Nothing would happen to it if you keep it at your house in the box, preferably dry place. 

[Jurrunio]

bad idea to do this with a GPU. Better start with memory

[KarathKasun]

Honestly, just save the money until you can actually get enough parts at once to have a working system.  You have nothing to gain from buying now, only money to lose because prices tend to go down over time.

[RobinD]

Silly thought but rather than buying parts one at a time and putting them in storage, you could put the money in storage (even if literally a piggy bank) and then buy them all at once that way if you have any faulty parts you can get them swapped.

Also atm the price to build yourself vs getting a whole seller to build it for is quite variable... some builds are cheaper to get built for you as the prices they can buy in at are better than you could. Maybe now is not a good time to build your first PC if you have budget restraints  I guess the besting thinking is to check all options but buying one part at a time doesn't keep your options open. 

[Catsrules]

I would buy everything at once, I don't see any advantage of buying the parts one by one over time. infact is just see disavantages if you get a DOA parts or find something is incompatible etc. 

Maybe I would do it if there was a good deal on something right now but it would have to be an amazing deal. 

 

But to your original question, no nothing will happen to the GPU sitting in a box. (besides the value decreasing.) We do it all of the time at Work with spare parts. CPUs, ram, videos cards. 

[AskTJ]

Nothing would happen, but you're best off waiting until you have your full part list, decided and all the cash, so you can get all the parts gathered.

[Eastman51]

It would be fine, especially if the storage place is low humidity. But I would refrain from buying things over time. Prices can go down, and new parts can come out. With the new 20 Series Nvidia cards coming out soon, 10 series prices may drop. And RAM is still expensive, and will likely get much cheaper over time. Intel 9th gen is right around the corner, and Ryzen 3rd gen might be out by the time you have money. Only things I would buy now would be a case, and MAYBE drives. But large SSDs are (relatively) a dime a dozen these days, and could be even cheaper later on.