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I'm thinking of building my own pc but my question is....is it better to buy parts when I can or to just save up and keep an eye on parts and buy it all at once? I know that in the pc world part become outdated quite fast.

Any advice is greatly appreciated thank you.
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depending on how fast you save, it really depends.
My advice is to pick a figure, save that up, buy the best PC you can at that time and ignore all the new bling-bling that'll come out 30s after you bought yours..
How high that figure needs to be - hard to say.. depends on what you're going for.

But some things are ok to buy - SSD's/HDD's.. a Power supply (650-750W and above).. a DVDdrive (pick a SATA one!)..
Mobo/CPU/Ram/GFX should not be bought until just before..
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Yeah I'm thinking of just setting a savings goal of around 1,500-2,000 and when I hit that then I'll start looking. My goal is to use it for everyday use as well as gaming some games not like hardcore gaming only but just one at a time.
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well, for $1500 you can get a pretty wild machine, for $2k it will be top-of-the-line (without resorting to ridiculous socket2011 builds n the like that have little to no additional use vs. huge cost increase for gaming performance).
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Awesome man when I hit the goal I will definitely be looking you up for some advice if you don't mind of course
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Of course :)
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I'm thinking of doing the same. Have decided to go with saving up and using that as my budget to buy everything in one go, I considered buying bits over time but I don't think it would be as fun ;)
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Ashardis wrote:depending on how fast you save, it really depends.
My advice is to pick a figure, save that up, buy the best PC you can at that time and ignore all the new bling-bling that'll come out 30s after you bought yours..
How high that figure needs to be - hard to say.. depends on what you're going for.

But some things are ok to buy - SSD's/HDD's.. a Power supply (650-750W and above).. a DVDdrive (pick a SATA one!)..
Mobo/CPU/Ram/GFX should not be bought until just before..
ash just question, why do you recomend such high wattage supplies.500w is enough for a 280x/gtx 770
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h3ll0j3ll0 wrote:ash just question, why do you recomend such high wattage supplies.500w is enough for a 280x/gtx 770
If the OP is looking at $2k, then I'd totally recommend a GTX780 (maybe even Ti) or it's more modern versions (depending on time)
And the price diff of a decent quality 500W vs. 650/750W is not really a lot.. less than 5% total buildcost.. so might aswell.
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Ashardis wrote:If the OP is looking at $2k, then I'd totally recommend a GTX780 (maybe even Ti) or it's more modern versions (depending on time)
And the price diff of a decent quality 500W vs. 650/750W is not really a lot.. less than 5% total buildcost.. so might aswell.
oh thought he had a smaller budget, yeye ofc if he has that much money, pardon me
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