Good idea to wait a bit tyinywiney bit longer?

Schizophonic

Schizophonic

Schizophonic

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Just looked on a popular reseller game website to check out what titles are coming out later this year and noticed that all the major players like:

Need for Speed Pro Street
Gears of War
Crysis
Call of duty 4
and etc.... are all coming out late November.

But i was thinking when i get my next payecheck at the end of this month i could buy myself a new rig.

Question is. Should i wait till the end of the month when prices could drop a tiny bit or buy the new rig at the end of this month?
 
Schizophonic said:
Question is. Should i wait till the end of the month when prices could drop a tiny bit or buy the new rig at the end of this month?
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If you wait, your going to be there a long time!!!!

When you buy, several parts of your system may drop in price but some may increase soon after. Your not really going to see anything too exciting in the next year at least unless your an uber geek.

imo I think you should just go for it.
 
mk17 said:
what kind of spec are you thinking of?
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From a £800 - £1000

I already have a Dell Widescreen, so i want to play at max settings ideally.

In the past i've always been a bit tight and brought cheap stuff thinking i can upgrade but its always caught me out e.g. AGP, 393 AMD Socket motherboards.
 
You're probably not waiting for a board capable of pcie 2 with twin 8800 Utras SLI'd, so I'd go for a combination of P35 mobo plus Q6600 G0, with either a GTX or GTS640.

I'd also go for it at the end of this month - but I'm no good at waiting.

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most (all?) P35 boards are capable of hosting penryn cpus, so it gives you some upgrade path.
DDR3 is heading for mainstream, pcie 2.0 is also coming up, plus a new socket for the intel nehalem chips a little over 12 months from now, so I would'nt spend a fortune.
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mk17 said:
You're probably not waiting for a board capable of pcie 2 with twin 8800 Utras SLI'd, so I'd go for a combination of P35 mobo plus Q6600 G0, with either a GTX or GTS640.

I'd also go for it at the end of this month - but I'm no good at waiting.

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most (all?) P35 boards are capable of hosting penryn cpus, so it gives you some upgrade path.
DDR3 is heading for mainstream, pcie 2.0 is also coming up, plus a new socket for the intel nehalem chips a little over 12 months from now, so I would'nt spend a fortune.
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Hmmm you got me worried now with all of those new upgrades coming out soon. And also my brother is in the same boat and needs a complete new rig.
 
depends a lot on how much you want to spend, and how long you want your machine to last.
I still think an overclocked Q6600 G0 build right now, and shove a cheap penryn equivalent into it in 18 months time and clock that even higher. do you very nicely.
 
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