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[Vinceisg0d]

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.

Gaming. TV/Audio. Applications, everything.

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread

2500-3500 CA

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.

Anywhere, but they must be shipped to Canada.

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.

I was an AMD/Radeon fanboy, but I have had bad luck with the last two. I am open for anything

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.

Possibly a 300GB seagate drive, X-FI Xtreme Music, z5500s, DVD Rom, 2407WFP, Mouse, Keyboard, etc

6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.

Yes.

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.

Depends on the difficulty. I would love to if it's not too risky/difficult.




Now, onto the post:

Said, Merry Christmas. Here's 3000$ (canadian, not like that matters anymore though), go buy a computer.

Problem is, this one is still working and I don't want to rush a new one. I also want to get a prebuilt one. Ive had too many problems with the do it yourselves.

Any ideas when the best time to buy this would be (When the newest technology comes out?) and what I should get? Just need the box and nothing else. I heard by about march the next gen stuff will be out. Should I get it then?

I win, by the way.

 

[jkresh]

Penryn is out in January, there should be new high end gpu's sometime between January and June (as its been a while since there was a high end release).

 

[Vinceisg0d]

Is there an estimated pricing on them?

 

[jkresh]

Penryn should be priced fairly close to their core 2 equivalents (probably within $50, so the 2.4ghz quad core penryn will be close in price to a q6600 and ...), as for the new high end gpu's (the successor to the 8800gtx...) I would expect them to be around $500 as that has basically become the standard for high end gpu release (with $600-$800 for 'ultras', whenever they come out).

I am trying to decide what to do about gpu's as I need to upgrade over my 7800, but I can't decide between an 8800gt (512), 1 or 2 3870's in crossfire or wait for a real next generation (I will probably wait as I want whatever card I get to be able to play crysis at full detail at 1900x1200).

 

[jonmcc33]

Whatever you do make sure you put insurance on the final product. I'm glad I did when I shipped my mother a computer that I built for her. Shipped it via USPS and it arrived and wouldn't even boot. Got lame Geek Squad to give us a quote for repairs which were more than what I had insured it for. I got the $400 it was insured for and the only thing that was bad was the CPU (no idea how that happened). Gotta thank Geek Squad for failing to properly diagnose the problem and giving the estimate of $700 to repair.