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Originally Posted by iSlayer  Nehalem is coming in Q4 of 2008, stock up on your DDR3 nooooooobzzz. Especially if you want to have a pimped out PC.
Isn't it a bad time to buy a computer anyways? Nehalem coming out in a month or two. Unless you don't want Nehalem (which sounds pretty stupid) you'll just be wasting money to buy a whole new processor.
You might as well just list individual parts that you recommend for specific price ranges. |
That first half of your first sentence is the only thing that is correct in that entire post.
Why stock up on DDR3 when prices will only fall? Why say "Especially if you want to have a pimped out PC." when you don't need to have DDR3 to have a quite amazing rig.
It's as good as ever if you don't want to spend over $1500 on a Nehalem rig. Not if you want to spend less than $1500.
I would have to list a dozen or so specific guidelines, upon what will work with what. It would make the post significantly more complicated, and almost impossible to maintain.
Edit: Before you say "Nehalem isn't $1500", let me say this.
Motherboard: ~$350
Nehalem: ~$350
Memory: ~$200
GPU: At least $260
Case, power supply, dvd, harddrive: ~$300
Total: $1460. Prices are high because I'm taking into account price exaggeration by vendors (45nm chips were 10-30% overpriced from what Intel said for several months)