Is it a bad time to do a major upgrade?

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I need to update basically my whole tower, is it a bad time to do it atm? i hear rumors of lots of new stuff round the corner, and would rather wait a couple of weeks if im gonna get better value for money,

Im after ram/cpu/mobo/case/psu/gcard maybe new hdisks,

I have some sata disks i use in raid 0, is it worth me getting sata 2 ones?

DDR3 seems kinda over priced and not worth it so fastest DDR2 i guess?

Probably going for an E8500 processor so, not sure of a good mobo for this? ive never overclocked but may this time. Im partial towards asus

My budget is MAX £1000 but ideally id rather pay lots less, so i can put more towards a new monitor later.

I normally like to buy things just below top ridiculous priced spec, ie GTX cards not ultras.

Rig will be used for gaming, photoshop, and few other things, mainly gaming. And i like to build myself. My current pc is about 2 years or so old, and my XFX agp card died on me so im using a 4200. Need something for modern fps/rts

Main thing is tho, i dont know how much it is worth spending atm, to get best value for money which is what i want.
 
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Yes and no really nehalem is just around the corner q4 but will be expensive probably until around next summer so I say get a p35 or p45 or the X38/48 if going crossfire.
If I were buying right now I'd get cheapest core 2 duo that can do 3.2 ghz I can find and a cheap p35 board and cheapest ram with a 4850 or 4870.
 
i heard that the graphics cards could be dropping in price in july too?

thanks for the reply, if i can save a few ££ i dont mind waiting till end of july, but i cant wait too long my pc is useless atm, im just pretty out of touch with pc parts , hard to know what to do for the best.
 
at the moment you could go for :

Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99 (£88.11)

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ) £64.99 (£76.36)

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £97.99 (£115.14)

Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black) £77.99
(£91.64)

Thermaltake ToughPower 850W Modular Power Supply £89.99 (£105.74)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD642JJ) x 2 £99.98 (£117.48)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £159.99 (£187.99)

Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £29.99 (£35.24)

Sub Total : £695.91
Shipping : £14.95
VAT : £124.40
Total : £835.26
 
You could wait forever :P

theres always a new GPU or CPU around the corner. As long as the market is "fairly stable" thats the best you can hope for.
 
Ok thats what i was thinking about the July ones, i knwo prices always go down and theres always new gear, but :) sometimes are better than others :)

Oh one other thing, im assuming that case fittings for mobos hasnt changed? if so i can still use my current alu CM case. Current mobo is a K8V
 
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