Yep, get yourself a Ryzen 3700X or 3900X now, along with DDR4 RAM and NVMe / SSD drives while there are deals every where. New GPU later this year to sweeten the build and to keep up with next-gen stuff.
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Is this the worst time to build a gaming PC?
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Yep, get yourself a Ryzen 3700X or 3900X now, along with DDR4 RAM and NVMe / SSD drives while there are deals every where. New GPU later this year to sweeten the build and to keep up with next-gen stuff.
I just build my first gaming PC in more than 10 years. I went lower on the GPU than my budget would have allowed for (GTX 1660) with the plan to get an RTX 3000 towards the end of the year.
With RAM and SSDs prices being super low right now and the intense competition in the CPU space that has been bringing prices down down as well the PC space is pretty awesome right now. DDR5 and USB 4 don't matter for gaming. The only big thing coming this year are Nvidia's new cards, but GPUs are the simplest thing to upgrade in a PC. HDMI 2.1 is also only important if you want to play at 4K above 60hz on a TV.
With RAM and SSDs prices being super low right now and the intense competition in the CPU space that has been bringing prices down down as well the PC space is pretty awesome right now. DDR5 and USB 4 don't matter for gaming. The only big thing coming this year are Nvidia's new cards, but GPUs are the simplest thing to upgrade in a PC. HDMI 2.1 is also only important if you want to play at 4K above 60hz on a TV.
This. The new consoles are going to reset the baseline. And it's going to be AWESOME!!
What we know so far:
8 core/16 thread Zen 2 CPU
NVMe SSD
5700XT class GPU, but with the new Next Gen Navi improvements.
Price out a PC with even the low end version of the above parts and you are *well* over $1000.
These new consoles will probably cost $500 at the most. What a deal.
This is going to force PC to come down to match over time. The question is how long.
The last time we saw consoles offering so much value was the 360/PS3 era. It tooks a couple of years for PCs to not look like a terrible deal hardware-wise.
I think it depends on your long term plans and use. If PC gaming will be a long term thing for you, there will never be a perfect time. Some windows are better than others however how much time you giving up waiting?
I went ahead of bought a gaming laptop over the holidays. No regrets. Yeah it will get outpaced in terms of specs for dollar but I love the portability. I actually use it more than I would've otherwise for this reason. It depends on what's important for you. To me best time is dictated more by planned usage.
Or a Ryzen 5 3600X which is arguably the best bang for buck CPU on the market.
Itll be cheaper than Intel i5 and perf difference will be negligible.
Also Intels "new" chips will just be refreshs of the currently line up.
Ugh I was under impression Ryzen 4 or whatever would end up using same AM4 socket. :( Just built a 3900X rig and was hoping for more future proofing.
Oh well...
I think it's aging of components. I never did OC the processor and kept sure that temperature didn't rise too high.
Then just suddenly there was boot issues, system freezes and BSOD.
My PC died the other day so I have no choice. :( Downgrading my cpu to 9900K, but honestly I only game on it so I should be fine for awhile? 2080 Super I'm going to upgrade for the next gen series when that launches.
Im pretty sure Ryzen 4 is on the AM4 socket.
Unless something has changed in the last few months Ryzen 4 was said to be the last AM4 processors.
I think that tweet is just saying if you buy a Ryzen AM4 chip in 2020 you will have no upgrade path in 2021/2022, without basically a full rebuild.
AM5 is expected to be introduced late 2021 or 2022.
On the processor front AMD is still a good buy.
GPUs waiting is the best bet....im sticking with a Pascal card till the nextgen machines drops....then Ill make a decision whether to get a Series X or a xx70 of nextgen.
Im actually planning to stick with Ryzen 3 and when Ryzen 4 drops get a 3950X the prices should drop nicely and easily get me through the Nextgen console cycle.....worst comes to worst a Ryzen 4 is still a decent upgrade path if need be.
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I sometimes think "maybe I shouldn't have gotten my RTX 2070 GPU yet..." and then remember that I had the thing for over a year now this month lmao. I'm happy with it though with VR and 1080p 144hz. I plan to keep it for 3+ more years.
Right now I wouldn't buy a GPU due to new ones coming soon and the others being more than a year old. Other stuff? I say go ahead. Most of that stuff will be overpriced at first anyways, especially DDR5 ram.
Right now I wouldn't buy a GPU due to new ones coming soon and the others being more than a year old. Other stuff? I say go ahead. Most of that stuff will be overpriced at first anyways, especially DDR5 ram.
I'm with you on that. I will likely build a new pc a year or two into the new consoles so I can have a substantial power boost above them.