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Captain_Yuri said:

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.

We don't know for sure how much power will the new cards use and, with the problem regarding transients and those power spikes, a 800-850W PSU that could be seem enough now may not be enough and require a 1000W unit instead.

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Navi 33 “RDNA 3” GPUs Allegedly Featured Within Mid-Range Radeon RX 7600 XT Graphics Card Around $400 US, Faster Than RX 6900 XT

https://wccftech.com/amd-navi-33-rdna-3-gpu-featured-in-mid-range-radeon-rx-7600-xt-graphics-card-around-400-us-faster-than-rx-6900-xt/

Take it with huge amounts of salt. At 1080p, it may be faster than 6900XT but as you go up the resolution, the 128 bit memory bus will limit it heavily.

Keep in mind that the 7600 series should be aimed primarly to 1080, maybe 1440p tops. That 128 bit bus shouldn't be that much of a trouble.

Besides, the last rumor said that Navi 31 would feature a 384-nit bus, higher than expected. Maybe that increase will scale down to the other chips, with Navi 32 featuring a 256-bit bus and the Navi 33 a 192-bit bus. For example.