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I've been getting a lot of questions recently with regard to timing when should you build a PC and the answer to that is always changing it's kind of why this question is so annoying did you wait for the next big release should you buy use now and upgrade later will prices drop significantly for certain parts for the next 2 or 3 months so look as often as I hear this question and I get this question all the time I totally get it right you want to maximize your utility and stretch your dollar as far as it'll go so today we'll analyze computer prices on a component by component basis to help you answer the question for yourself let's start with CPUs on Intel side things are a bit pricey right now I've got a video discussing this in detail or right here but in a nutshell current chipsets and CPUs are being produced from the same process a supply shortage almost always forces prices upward which is why even the 8700 K pre refresh jumped in MSRP by roughly 10% if you're dead set on an Intel upgrade path for gaming superiority and program dependency stick with the blue team I can't really convince you otherwise but if you prefer the value emphasis the better solution in my opinion is AMD for well under 200 bucks so the rise in 520 600 is a killer solution for multitaskers and gamers alike rendering CAD streaming Photoshop it can all be done quite simply with a 6 chord 12th red beast like this at around 4 gigahertz that's you know that's a low conservative overclock XMP stability has vastly improved this time around as well so if you've got yourself a basket of RAM you should consider the 2nd gen 12 nanometer stuff but what about future releases should you wait for either Intel or AMD to release something new before you buy is it also a question I get a lot well if you're watching this at any point in 2018 the answer in my opinion should be no we don't expect true Zen to architecture at 7 animators until mid 2019 on the other side Intel's been struggling with its 1092 process for quite some time partly explaining their current supply shortage don't expect anything in this realm until later in 2019 we'll be left with the 9th gen stuff for quite some time so both the desktop CPU manufacturers won't release anything truly groundbreaking for what we expect will be another year or two if you can wait that long so but if you want something soon it makes sense to buy now and again in my opinion the rise in 520 600 is the best value currently on the market motherboards really aren't called in a question too much with respect to timing so we'll gloss over this one most rice and CPUs run perfectly fine on B 350 or B 450 chipsets just mind the BIOS updates if you're using a newer board on an older CPU more on that in this video right here as for Intel it's pretty straight forward as well if you don't want to overclock you have a non case queue then buy the cheaper boards but if you do have a case queue and you want to overclock it you know you're kind of forced to buy the Z series chipsets now let's move over to RAM this one's tricky prices have been on the decline as of late but really only barely I mean up until late 2017 prices were on the rise of base 21 33 megahertz ddr4 kit in a 4x4 arrangement used to cost 75 bucks boy what we do for prices like that today currently that same kit costs around 150 bucks nearly double what it should cost on paper hynek's micron and Samsung were sued multiple times by multiple countries over antitrust violations and long story short things take a while in court especially big court cases like this we don't expect prices to return to normal several months if not years so if Ram was the one thing you were waiting on before building your next computer don't get your hopes up my advice is to bite the bullet buy a cheaper 16 gig kit while you can or find something in the used market for slightly less either way there's really no avoiding this one it's the price we pay literally when big businesses resort to shady and illegal tactics now how about those graphics cards depending on your desired resolution and game settings and budget the market is well it's okay nothing special here unless you plan on buying a used and I have videos on that as well as for the new stuff your sweet spot is still probably around gtx 1070 or 1080 territory 1060 s will do just fine but you're still paying a bit of a premium with respect to AMD rivals so in my opinion the RX 580 is the better buy from a value perspective you just got to put up with Radeon software and if you've only ever used GeForce experience you may want to stick with the Green Team just vered g-forces sake it's assuming you used experience it's just a preference thing Turing offerings are still quite expensive in my opinion but if you insist on the latest tech the cheaper 20 70s at around 500 USD look rather promising 2080s are often more expensive than their nearly identical performing 1080i counterparts and 20 ATT eyes are priced like Titans but I mean if you're willing to sink your teeth into either of those cards you probably weren't interested in this topic anyway because value isn't probably your top concern and that's totally your choice I implore you to reallocate funds if possible in your budget toward the best graphics card possible though especially if you're gonna emphasize gaming GT 10 30s aren't gonna cut it for the average gamer and I GPS are absolute last resorts even the 22 and 24 hundred G's just might take their cases coolers and power supplies aren't typically topics of concern for budget builders we did see a small bump in power supply prices during the mining craze but that event was rather isolated and was quickly corrected you can find efficient 5 and 600 watt power supply is good for a majority of gamers with a single CPU GPU config for well under 100 USD now I've linked a few that I've used actually in the past below that tends to be the topic that people are most confused about how much you know wattage do I need for my system but typically 5 to 600 watts is the sweet spot now the last thing I wanna touch on is storage this category jumped in price across the board actually around September of 2017 but it didn't last as long as the RAM surged despite having similar suppliers we actually see a correction at around September of 2018 those dips there and this is about where we should expect things to be in a normal market simply put if you were put off by storage prices in general which is totally you know justified at least it would have been a year ago they shouldn't be an excuse to not build in the present so there are certainly variables at play here and I've only addressed a handful of them but the only thing costing significantly more than it should ultimately is a ram so if you're willing to pay an additional 80 to 100 bucks more for your average 16 gig kit of say Corsair dump lots then in my opinion you'll be able to navigate the waters elsewhere and find great deals yes even on those graphics cards so should you buy a PC right now yeah i whoops I actually think that there's enough in the market telling you to buy that it would be a sin not to and that's a good thing prices will however continue to fall as they always do for current gen hardware so in theory the longer you wait the more you save but there's a 20 40 or 60 dollar premium justify having a computer today with which to game and create yes that's my take let me know you think the comments below thumbs up thumbs down you guys know what to do click that red subscribe button become a member if you want to be fancy and I'll catch you in the next one this is science studio thanks for learning with us