Building my first custom gaming PC. Budgeting around $1500 including a new monitor. (may go 1440p) I've been on Newegg a lot and spent a metric crap ton of time researching components. Now, let me just get this out of the way: I fully understand that if you wait for the latest and greatest to be out, you'll never complete a build. That being said, all the GPU's and CPU architecture is now over 1 year old and I've read that Nvidia is close to launching the desktop 800 series. I also seem to recall that Haswell is soon to be replaced and AMD's FX 8350 is pretty dated and soon will get a refresh/replacement.
I'm not looking to future proof or make sure I have the latest. but I know gaming is progressing and I don't want to dump $1500 into tech that is already 1 year old if it's going to be gimped in 2 years due to increased GPU requirements. Would I be wise to hold off for a few months or should I stop over thinking it and just "proceed to checkout".
Thank you
-Shane
I'm not looking to future proof or make sure I have the latest. but I know gaming is progressing and I don't want to dump $1500 into tech that is already 1 year old if it's going to be gimped in 2 years due to increased GPU requirements. Would I be wise to hold off for a few months or should I stop over thinking it and just "proceed to checkout".
Thank you
-Shane
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