Worth getting high-end PC at this moment?

pariarami1325 · Oct 9, 2018

I've been planning for a month now to get a new high-end PC but I don't know , there's a new i9 and new ryzen series with new AMD graphic cards coming and I'm expecting Nvidia to also do new series because the RTX's are not worth the money , what are your opinion ppl? Should I just go for it or wait couple months? Had in my mind to get x470 motherboard with 1700x then upgrade the CPU when the new gen is out.

jay32267 · Oct 9, 2018

I have been in your position more than once.

I'd say get what you want now. There will always be "something coming out".

pontiac1979 · Oct 9, 2018

You'll never own a PC if you keep telling yourself that you'll wait until the next big thing comes out - there's always new stuff being released. The 9th gen Intel CPUs and RTX cards have pretty bad pricing, but I wouldn't place much faith in the prices falling much at all in the coming months. I say build what you can now, because who knows when/what the next shortage will be/how long it lasts for.

punkncat · Oct 9, 2018

Consider what specs you plan to play now, build something with a bit of overhead for it, if possible, and go. There is a lot of great equipment available right now. 1080/1070 cards, RX5xx cards are both available at a steal right now. Ryzen 1xxx stuff is going stupid cheap. IMO a great time to build.

geofelt · Oct 9, 2018

Stick with planning on announced products and availability dates.

One rule of thumb for a balanced gamer is to budget about 2x the cost of the cpu for the graphics card.

High end might be a i7-9700K for $420 and a RTX2080 for $850.

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