Want to upgrade my PC, should I wait for prices to get better or buy now?
Posted by Someone_Unfortunate@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Any chance prices will drop within a year? I want to upgrade my 6 year old midrange PC but I dont want to pay todays prices if they may come down in the near future. My 2060 performs surprisingly well for a graphics card from 2019 but it definitly needs an upgrade aswell as every other part in my pc.
draven33l@reddit
Motherboards, CPUs and cases are cheap. It's really just RAM and storage, and GPUs (since they use RAM) are the troublesome parts right now. It's probably going to get worse before it gets better at this rate. Demand isn't really going down.
Jonkampo52@reddit
Unfortunately cpus are starting to trend up. Going to be tight supply there soon too. Amd/Intel not talking much about consumer cpus for a reason
draven33l@reddit
Intel just released their 270K which pretty much matches their fastest CPU they've ever built. For...$299... These are good times. It might not last, but that feels like the old days.
Jonkampo52@reddit
While I agree. The chatter is with agentic computing coming the ratio of general cpu cores to GPU will be moving towards CPU more so more demand for CPU chiplets for massive xeon and epyc servers. May not happen fast but expecting it to get more pricey. Like now while the 270k for 299 sounds amazing that is a pretty move from Intel than a price point they would love for a higher end chip
No-Horse987@reddit
Storage and memory are at near obscene prices right now. If you can find good deals on those two, by all means jump on it. GPU’s are gonna be GPU’s, so buy what your budget allows.
As others have posted, CPU’s are surprisingly cheap. So is motherboards and PSU’s. So you can get the cheaper stuff now, or go all in on everything.
2Ravens89@reddit
Zero point waiting why would they suddenly get much cheaper. You're operating on hope not logic doing that, these companies are making billions. They're not gonna willingly put the numbers down now this precedent is set. There is nothing about the climate that will imminently change either.
The fact is, and the hardcore PC enthusiast will not like it...but the next gen of consoles will be so good and even though they also increase in price, they will be far better value and close enough relative performance to convert many PC gamers. They always had value but not quality, well, upscaling and frame gen tech will revolutionise that. PS5 pro already hints at it but doesn't have the horse power the next gen will.
PC gaming may be dying in truth or at least becoming very niche due to expense so if you really wanna get on board may as well do it quick before it's pointless.
Current_Direction775@reddit
Honestly, there’s always another hardware cycle coming, so waiting forever usually just turns into never upgrading. Your RTX 2060 aging this gracefully after 6 years is actually pretty impressive.
Mr_Citation@reddit
Considering rumours of TSMC workers debating to strike, buy now. Prices are high because of demand from new data centers for AI, they'll keep getting higher as they keep feeding the bubble. But if TSMC employees strike then everything chip wise will skyrocket in price.
Gauntlets28@reddit
The thing you should remember is that there will always be some component or other that is having supply issues and is suddenly really expensive. That doesn't mean you need to not upgrade at all. If it comes to it, you can always switch components out later.
Evening_Ticket7638@reddit
Depends what kind of pc you already have, how much you want to spend and what you want to use it for.
perrance68@reddit
Prices will increase next year. You should buy now while prices are low.
therealslapper@reddit
My cousin is going to prep his time machine to go into the future. I'll ask him and let you know when I meet him again.
chodesahoyqq@reddit
I just upgraded yesterday and honestly it all comes down to you, if you’re in a position to upgrade you should go for it, you can always be waiting for prices to drop.
I looked at it as in, I had the money, it was a big enough upgrade and I wanted it
Outrageous-Nail-3766@reddit
Answers to these kinds of questions depend heavily on a lot of stuff. Someone asking if they should upgrade with a budget of a gzillion dollars will get a different answer than the guy whose budget is pocket lint and paperclips. Also depends on how much your computers performance bothers you. If everything is fine enough, then why bother? If it's somehow ruining games for you, then go for it if you can. Hardly anyone could guess what the market is going to do. Maybe you wait for it to get cheaper and it only gets more expensive.