Best time to buy a new rig? Jan Sales? Notable Release Dates?

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So i've been thinking about buying a new rig and was wondering when the best time of year is?

  1. January sales to picking up some deals?
  2. New hardware releases due to push down existing hardware prices?
  3. Any market trends to be aware of?
I'm after a 2500 w/ 570 or if I can get some nice prices maybe a little better. Basically a machine that can smash BF3 with 1x gfx card and the ability to SLi so i can whack in another and smash out some insane graphics.

What you think?
 
There's never has been a "best time of year" to buy as far as I can remember. Decent deals can often be had on outgoing products when newer products are launched.

Bleeding edge technology is always going to cost you but on the other hand some bargains can be had on outgoing products which aren't necessarily old tech by any means. It depends on what your priorities are; getting a good deal or staying up with the latest. The latter doesn't always mean you're buying the best nor bang for buck though.
 
with the HDD situation i can tell you now isnt the best time.

also, if you looking for a high end gaming PC, power efficient gaming PC then its probably worth waiting for the new graphics cards, and for a video editing PC you might want to wait for sandybridge E depending on the price.

however, whatever you buy isnt suddenly not going to be able to run games at decent settings because new tech has come out
 
I have a pretty decent rig (4 years ago) right now, i've been building my own rigs since i was a nipper so im not a novice, just been out of the game for a while.

The flooding situation is going to stop me buying a SSD for now, I've got 1.5tb drives so its not an issue currently. I'm not totally sure but will it bottleneck the system? I doubted it...

Is the flooding effecting prices of other components?

Naturally these things cost a fair buck, ill prob spend 800-900 on a gfx, ram, mobo, cpu and fans... rest of my kit is still good to go! It's always a good idea to try and save a few pennies where you can though :D
 
I'm interested in finding out...

and to see if it has effected other components.

I mean, that one thing along is not going to stop me buying a rig. I'd be buying SSD's if anything! :)
 
the flood as far as I've read hasn't effected the ssd prices directly, some sellers may decide to put up the prices as people start buying ssds more and more(this conspiricy theory has been mentioned in the large thread in the news section regarding the hard disk prices).

the new grraphics card are due in the new few months any way so may be worth holding off(as already mentioned).

oh and what is your current psu?
 
solid:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz) Socket 775 4MB Cache Processor
Abit AW9D SKT 775 7.1 Channel Audio PCI-E
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 DHX Performace Memory CL4 2.1V
Seagate ST3250820AS 250GB 7200RPM SATA300 8MB Cache
Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache
Seasonic M12 700W Modular PSU
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Soundcard
XFX GeForce 8800GTX 768MB DVI TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card
Coolermaster HAF 932 Full Tower Case - High Air Flow Design - No PSU

Off-topic - I'm probably going to seel this rig to a mate, excluding HDD's and case what do you rekon?
 
looking at that just pop in a cheap q6600, oc it to 3.6ghz and it'll see you through middle of next year ready for ivybridge/sandybridge-e and new amd/nividia 7xxx/6xx upgrade ;)
 
to be honest a lot of that could easily be kept. everything except the mobo, processor, RAM and GPU is top notch

and to those that are wondering, SSDs have not been affected by the flooding. they have been affected a bit by NAND flash prices going up, but thats it
 
to be honest a lot of that could easily be kept. everything except the mobo, processor, RAM and GPU is top notch

and to those that are wondering, SSDs have not been affected by the flooding. they have been affected a bit by NAND flash prices going up, but thats it

Thanks for the compliment, i'm happy my rig building was up to scratch 4 yrs ago :D

These are the components I was thinking of upgrading, its effectively a new rig in my eyes. All core components.

My decision is when to buy (when can I save the most)? Save for new year or on new gfx card release or buy 570 or 580 now to eventually SLi later.

I've decided on the i5-2500, mobo is a bit up in the air atm, was gonna go for the ASRock Z68 Extreme7 but I think its a bit OTT so back to the drawing board on that. RAM again I haven't researched, either 8gb of DDR3 corsair XSM3 or something else...

I've read 1600 isnt worth it? 1333 will suffice?

Ah, decisions... decisions. Turning into a rig building thread now! eek!
 
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