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Marth said:

Captain_Yuri said:

I think that applies to PCs in general tbh. With Zen 4 and Raptor Lake on the horizon, buying CPUs right now feels like a bad time as well since they get massively discounted when the next gen comes out. The only component you could get is a power supply cause those prices may increase when Zen 4/RaptorLake/Lovelace/RDNA3 releases since they are all going up in wattage. You can easily find a 850 Watt PSU from Evga that's fully modular for $90.

Personally I'd get 1000 watt and be done with it cause it's not like your PSU will be using 1000 watt unless it's needed.

Well for Zen4 you would also have to switch socket if you plan to upgrade instead of building a new system.

At least Alder Lake useres can easily switch to Raptor Lake.

Yea but if you wanted to go with Zen 3, you would also see even deeper discounts. Especially with CPUs like 5800X3D that hasn't seen much of a discount yet if you are going for a strictly gaming build. Or you can invest into Zen 4/AM5 if you want that future upgradability along with the benefits of AM5.

JEMC said:

At least CPUs aren't overpriced and the price is "fair" given how long they've been in the market and the competition. Yes, the next ones are around the corner and will be better, but you won't feel so cheated as with GPUs.

But well, imho, the only safe components to buy right now are RAM, storage (PCIe 5.0 drives will be ridiculously expensive once they launch) and PSU & case, tho to get the right power supply you need to know what hardware you'll get in the future, especially if you're going high end.

Well I think you can have a pretty good idea as to the power requirements that you will be facing. Getting the highest wattage power supply you can get is never a bad thing, especially while many of them are on sale right now. But when Ampere/RDNA 2 launched and many people were upgrading, PSUs were also going up in price because many were replacing their existing PSUs. So I think at least for that, if you can find a good deal, you can get ahead of the curve.