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Originally Posted by Skold
New parts aren't going to be any more affordable, and will be out of his budget. If you want to build a PC for good price/performance ratio now is the time to do it. I build PCs for a partial living and am very familiar with the market. Building a top end PC now can run almost to $7,000 - $9,000 dollars. Its going to take a while for prices to come down on new technology and august isn't that far away. The Nehalem is 2x faster than current processors, but currently, the top processor is $1,500. Thats pretty steep and with the Nehalem coming out theres no reason for them to make it cheap, considering it smashes all other processors. Sure it will make others drop but the power will go unused for years. The P45 chipset is nice, as well as the GT200, but we are talking parts that are going to be released by the end of this year and at high prices. (Atleast 500+.)
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this isn't true at all. new technology always comes in tiers, the op isn't saying he wants the best of the best cutting edge. when a new cpu is released there is always several speed tiers or multicore options that range from very affordable to.. well.. insane. the hard part is finding the best bang for the buck inbetween those 2 markers. the same thing applies to virtually every major part in a computer.
you talk as if the op is wanting to wait til the current top of the line comes down in price, but as you should know that won't ever happen. prices will surely decline, but not enough to bring them into his price range until they are obsolete and he wouldn't want them anyways.