Building a pc but should I wait because new video cards coming out soon? Price drop? Also how do you justify building new pc?

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So this is my build so far, just like showing it (I will buy i5 when I have the money or if I do decide to wait I will save up and buy the i5 right off when I get it, for now I have the pentium)
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/gx2xxr

So I have heard and searched up the new gtx 880 cards are coming out in some time and thought that maybe the price for the card I want the gtx 770 would go down. What do you guys think, should I wait and see if price goes down or it won't go down too much and won't matter until more months pass by? New to this so I don't know if price drop would even happen, with college starting up and most of my week will be at school won't mind a bit of a wait 11 am-9pm at school some days. Last question is how do you justify buying a new PC? My build is already over 900 and I don't know I guess I just feel guilty spending so much on a pc even though I think it will preform amazingly. My last pc (HP) is over 10 years old and still runs lol, and my laptop died on me leaving me with a chromebook mainly. I guess I feel bad as I've never put so much money into one thing other than a car. What do you guys think or if any of you have felt like this when getting a pc?
 
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Well people are expecting a mid September launch for GTX 880 so if you think you can wait I would wait and see how well they benchmark. Most new games dont come out till October anyway.

You could get a less expensive graphics card to save money if needed. Getting a GTX 750ti would drop the price of your build by $200. $700 for a PC isn't too bad a deal and you could still play games on it. Your new computer would run much faster than your 10 year old PC for sure.
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The biggest considerations when building a PC are budget and necessity. I built a PC this past winter/spring with a firm budget and an immediate need, since I was "borrowing" a desktop at the time. I decided early on in the process that a budget of around $1000 would fill my needs for a mid-ish level gaming/general use PC. I ended up going over due to some poor planning on my part, but had the funds to absorb the overrun.

Honestly, it's very similar to a car: if your current PC does the stuff you want it to do well enough, you keep using it. I'll probably keep using this for another year or so, then repurpose it and build a new one since I didn't invest the time into researching performance to have gotten my money's worth.

Regarding releases, you can always wait for the next generation of tech to come out, but then there's immediately another one coming out next year or sooner, even. Sometimes you just have to decide to bite the bullet and commit. Personally, my goal on my next build is to wait for Broadwell Desktop CPUs or even into the next architecture change, barring AMD deciding to release some new and good high-end CPUs (I can dream). If you're satisfied with what you have now and can afford to wait until the GTX 8s are out, go for it and take advantage of the price drops.
 
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Well people are expecting a mid September launch for GTX 880 so if you think you can wait I would wait and see how well they benchmark. Most new games dont come out till October anyway.

You could get a less expensive graphics card to save money if needed. Getting a GTX 750ti would drop the price of your build by $200. $700 for a PC isn't too bad a deal and you could still play games on it. Your new computer would run much faster than your 10 year old PC for sure.
 
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Yea I could lower the price of the video card I guess, and waiting shouldn't be that ba dconsidering I'm going to start college again. I'm not planning to get gtx 880 though that would be too expensive a buy right when it releases.
 
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