Hardware Development up to January 2007

[Dancer]

Greetings Gangsters,

Please look into the crystal ball and predict the future of the PC and prices for the next 6 months? Insightful advice and links to product development timelines would be welcome.

In particular I can't afford to buy the whole rig right now (hard times financially), but would you guys recommend buying cheap components on offer as I find them up until New Years. OR would you say I'd get a better deal saving the money and trying for some sort of January offer? Are there worthwile savings on PC component sales in January?

So you have an idea where I'm aiming, the spec which is currently resting in my basket and I'm happy with is below. I considered maybe buying the motherboard and RAM now because they are a good price, and then wait with the rest until January. What do you people think, wait or buy?

£70 DFI Infinity nF UltraII-M2/G AM2 Motherboard (MB-021-DF)
£64 AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz AM2 (CP-164-AM)
£112 GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 (MY-034-GL)
£149 Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB (GX-044-CO)
£58 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache (HD-079-SE)
£453.26 Total (inc VAT and rounded)

 

[SiriusB]

Prices on PC hardware doesn't change terribly much to be honest. The biggest price cuts come in when hardware is getting out of date - such as Socket 939 AMD stuff and AM2 to some extent because of Conroe.

So basically odds are you wont be saving as much as you hope.

SiriusB

 

[Yewen]

There is always a £300, £400, £500 computer.

The bottom line price never changes, but each bracket moves down one every 6 months or so.

In 6 months time your £300 will go further, but it will be 6 months closer to being obsolete.

Its basically how it works.