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Post Date: 2009-07-21
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    Posted: 21 Jul 2009 at 10:46am
So, as a first time home owner I am going to be receiving a nice government check any day now... I should probably save it but it's been 2 years since my last computer so I figure why not buy another!
 
My question is... is this a good time to buy?  I would probably buy it around September but last time I bought my rig in October I got 8800 ultras and within a month they had a better series, lol.  I know this will happen the majority of the time but isn't there supposed to be a new video card chipset coming out soon?  I was thinking I could wait a little longer if something awesome is coming out fairly soon.
 
Also, when are SSD prices supposed to go down?  I kind of think running RAID 0 is a pain in the arse.
 
Any suggestions?  I will probably spend $3000-$4000 on the system when I finally get it.
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nomec, if you decide you are ready to buy that 2nd computer, give me a call, I will get you setup.
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well right now they got the big promotion going on so that is definitely an incentive to buy now, but its up to you of course.

so this is going to be a gaming PC nomec?

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Posts: 530 		  Quote nomec Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 21 Jul 2009 at 1:17pm
Yes for only gaming really... thats exactly what I bought my last one for, cept I spent $4700 last time lol
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ok and your resolution you are going to be running is?

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1920x1200 on my 24" ... but I want this thing to last me another 2 to 2.5 years.  That's why I went with dual 8800 ultras last time, which was overkill for my monitor, but I am still comfortably playing a lot of games now, but they are showing their age.  I really want to know if I should wait or not though.
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well if you wait then you gonna have to keep waiting, new GPUs are coming out, but from what I understand the big boys are gonna be out H1 of 2010.

you want LC on CPU? LC on GPUs?

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If that's the case, I might just wait.
 
I probably will stick to air cooling as I have never had a LC setup before.  I understand that it is fairly low maintenance, but I don't have any experience whatsoever and know next to nothing about LC'ing.
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