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Evening all
With the pc market in a weird spot with rtx3000 series stock backing up and a lot of new hardware releases on the horizon (like the new AMD nvidia GPU's and AMD intel Cpus) I was wondering if there is the possibility of current prices on OCUK stock to drop further?
I'm currently looking at getting an i7 12700k and pairing it with a RTX 3080 to target the 1440p 60 fps and vr gaming I mentioned earlier. Ive seen that its a popular sentiment to just wait until the newest hardware comes out but from what ive seen or heard on tech forums and channels, from what they've learnt so far, it looks like not only will the next gen of parts be performance monsters they'll also be even more power hungry and more expensive to buy and run without necessarily being the best value for what is being charged (like the whole rtx4080 thats actually a 4070 in disguise etc.).
So what im mulling over really is should I just bite the bullet now and order the system whilst these parts are in stock or should I wait maybe until next year and not risk missing out on parts being potentially discounted once the new hardware is out?. I'm not really in a hurry for a new system as my current one does the job but i was hoping to use my current system as my learning pc so i can actually start upgrading/replacing parts myself rather then relying on prebuilds (i can pretty much replace a GPU but im too scared to mess with things like CPU's or even coolers haha).
thank you.
With the pc market in a weird spot with rtx3000 series stock backing up and a lot of new hardware releases on the horizon (like the new AMD nvidia GPU's and AMD intel Cpus) I was wondering if there is the possibility of current prices on OCUK stock to drop further?
I'm currently looking at getting an i7 12700k and pairing it with a RTX 3080 to target the 1440p 60 fps and vr gaming I mentioned earlier. Ive seen that its a popular sentiment to just wait until the newest hardware comes out but from what ive seen or heard on tech forums and channels, from what they've learnt so far, it looks like not only will the next gen of parts be performance monsters they'll also be even more power hungry and more expensive to buy and run without necessarily being the best value for what is being charged (like the whole rtx4080 thats actually a 4070 in disguise etc.).
So what im mulling over really is should I just bite the bullet now and order the system whilst these parts are in stock or should I wait maybe until next year and not risk missing out on parts being potentially discounted once the new hardware is out?. I'm not really in a hurry for a new system as my current one does the job but i was hoping to use my current system as my learning pc so i can actually start upgrading/replacing parts myself rather then relying on prebuilds (i can pretty much replace a GPU but im too scared to mess with things like CPU's or even coolers haha).
thank you.
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