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When to buy
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I think there's no such thing as "best time to buy hardware". For example: X-mas. U buy a video card, say GeForce 3, with some discount... a month later nVidia releases GF 4 and GF 3 prices go down. Bingo! U're a looser.
Or, Taiwan suffers an earthquake and ALL prices, especialy RAM, jet into the sky.
So, I think the best way to buy harware is to buy the "almost latest model" stuff. It'll give u near-top performance for reasonable price. This way u'll never-ever have the BEST OF THE BEST of... but u'll have a fine machine for a fair price.
Or, Taiwan suffers an earthquake and ALL prices, especialy RAM, jet into the sky.
So, I think the best way to buy harware is to buy the "almost latest model" stuff. It'll give u near-top performance for reasonable price. This way u'll never-ever have the BEST OF THE BEST of... but u'll have a fine machine for a fair price.
Karl Blessing
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Just be prepared when buying hardware. Eventually the prices go down, no matter when you buy it, soon as a year hits since it's debut its at it's lowest it'll ever ( usally ) while still being considered not obselete.
Sometimes the top of the line is not nessarily best. For example VIA just released their new KT400 chipset. But due to the fact they had not released it later, like when they could produced it after DDR400 specs became official. As a result KT400 does not officially support DDR400 memory, Also the performance increase from KT333 ( a board I have reviewed here ) is only marginal by 1% if not surpassed by a KT333 system.
Also every part's prices vary differently. Video cards have massive competition but prices just go up becuase people pay more for an entertainment part. Processors are also in a competition but prices seem to remain lower than in the past years. Rams vary I loose track of what makes their prices change other than the increase speeds that even most our motherboards cannot do unless overclocked yet. Motherboard prices rise and lower with every new chipset release regardless of how little increase there are between chipsets. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}
Sometimes the top of the line is not nessarily best. For example VIA just released their new KT400 chipset. But due to the fact they had not released it later, like when they could produced it after DDR400 specs became official. As a result KT400 does not officially support DDR400 memory, Also the performance increase from KT333 ( a board I have reviewed here ) is only marginal by 1% if not surpassed by a KT333 system.
Also every part's prices vary differently. Video cards have massive competition but prices just go up becuase people pay more for an entertainment part. Processors are also in a competition but prices seem to remain lower than in the past years. Rams vary I loose track of what makes their prices change other than the increase speeds that even most our motherboards cannot do unless overclocked yet. Motherboard prices rise and lower with every new chipset release regardless of how little increase there are between chipsets. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}
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