Making PC great again - what hardware should I buy?

[JEMC]

bdbdbd said:
@Jemc: Starting January the earliest. I have to buy components only a couple at a time for few months, as I have my car to fix at the same time (cylinder head cracked and turbo leaks oil, it's likely going to get a minor power upgrade from 130hp to ~200hp as well as I fix it).

Basically, parts that I need to upgrade, I can also reuse on another computer, as I have quite a few kids who are likely going to want their own computers too at some point.

The reason I was thinking the upgradeability, is because I learned some time ago that laptops aren't necessarily upgradeable. My netbook (wife's netbook actually) RAM maxes out at 2GB, CPU cannot be changed, and if it could be, the socket wouldn't fit anything even remotedly modern.

If you're going to buy it in parts, I would start with the components with stable prices first, like the case, PSU and RAM, then the ones that don't change too fast like SSD/HDDs, motherboard and CPU and lastly the GPU.

That should allow you to see the impact of the new Intel and AMD processors and the launch of AMD's Vega GPUs in the market.