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Honestly I purchased the parts and built my PC back in December because there will always be something newer and better coming out...and using that logic I could be dead before I actual get to enjoy my PC. Of course I am in bad health and such, so that factored in a bit, but I still hold to it. Besides, if I did decide to wait for the next generation, then I would probably want to wait for some of the kinks to be worked out and prices to fall/stabilize a bit before investing.
All of the little improvements that happen within a few years of the next generation are great...and like I said, if you keep waiting for the next generation...then you will be waiting forever. Get whatever you want though, as only you can say what works best for you.
As a side note, I spent $3,000 on a beast machine that had everything I wanted. Sure it was more than I would have like to spend...but with my poor health and such...better to be happy (my wife put her foot down and wrangled me into going ahead and doing the build too). I would absolutely love to have DDR4 and the new generation...and I may actually be able to build a $1,000 - $1,500 PC for my wife in a year or two (if she ends up actually wanting one - still deciding). So in that case she would get the next generation (but mine would still be better...lol).
Yes that is good advice, I know there is always going to be better stuff, but it just seems with the new motherboards and ddr4 ram this is going to be a rather important upgrade cycle and the future of pcs for the next 3-4 years, and I wouldnt want to miss out on this generation.
Also remember the tick/tock cycle. Parts get smaller then parts get improvements. So more than likely 2016 is when we will see a drastic improvement on what is going to be released for the next generation. And honestly, I am expecting to end up needing to replace my system sometime around 2020 with a GPU and RAM upgrade in the meantime.
yeah that is true. What is your build? Have you heard anything about the next gen of AMD video cards?
i7 - 4930k
16 GB DDR3 @ 1866 MHz
EVGA GTX 780 Ti SC ACX
ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition MoBo
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200 Watt PSU
500 GB SSD
2 x 3 TB 7200 RPM HDD
LG 3D Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Reader/Writer
and of course mechanical keyboard and gaming mouse.
Might have missed something else...but that stuff is what really matters...lol.
I just heard about AMD releasing a card recently but it just fit in with current offerings and was not really spectacular in any way. I don't know when they plan on pushing the CPU/GPU further...maybe they are waiting to see what Intel and NVidia do. Unfortunately though for AMD is seems like Intel is planning on pushing out CPUs that have a higher clock rate than they were doing before...and has been a bit of complaint leveled against them when being compared to AMD CPUs. Unless AMD can really push out CPUs that have 5 GHz standard clock before overclocking for this next generation...or at least offer plenty of products that are improvements on their 8350s for similar prices, more people might actually switch to Intel.
It looks like AMD is probably going to gain some ground in GPUs though for this next generation because so far NVidia has not teased anything that seems decent enough for the money yet. Sure there already is a premium for NVidia products and the support/drivers is good. I prefer NVidia myself...but more than likely AMD will heavily undercut them price/performance this next generation if things keep going the way they already are.
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