Do pc parts prices drop after christmas?

[Ledled]

i want to get my price down on my pc build so that im under 800

 

[Gam3r01]

Not typically, especially not core components. Holidays and events dont lower prices much if ever.

Most drastic changes in price occur when new hardware is released, and old hardware has to drop in price to compete with price/performance ratios.

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Some parts yes, some parts no.

 

[The Original Ralph]

been wondering the same thing after seeing all the special sales (black Friday, cryro green monday etc)
with christmas wiping out a lot of folks budgets, and getting ready to pay taxes on april 15th, would have to think vendors will have to compete even harder to take in revenue - i used to work in a car dealership, and jan 1 to April 15th were traditionally always slow, sales wise and even in the svc dept, people were only making the absolute necessary repairs

 

[menetlaus]

As others have said - yes and no.

Overall (most) computer parts drop significantly in price over time. In general this has more to do with better parts being released at the same price points - so the, now slower, parts drop in price accordingly.

On the other hand - there are always sales and rebates offered if you look around for them enough. Some may be in store only, some may be one day only, and others may not be enough to make the item worthwhile to consider.

Personally - do not get too hung up on getting a [brand] z97 [model] [suffix] [revision] motherboard as there can be exceptional deals on the same model board with slightly different features - and truth be told - other than build quality and warranty support, they are will perform almost identically to each other. VRAM amount and type is one of the few exceptions to this.

 

[menetlaus]

note: z97 and motherboard were examples. This applies equally will to GPU's (except for VRAM as stated above)

 

[synphul]

It just depends on the parts. If it's a budget pre built rig or laptop then you'll probably see some sales around back to school. Components, usually around black fri, black november or black 3rd quarter whatever they've extended it to now. Some in demand name brand items don't go on sale often and when they do the sales are limited. For instance, intel cpus hardly go on sale for long. They stay pretty steady at near full retail, even when new models come out. No incentive for them to lower prices.

Graphics cards a lot of times will drop in price when an older 'enthusiast' model drops to 'mid grade' as new enthusiast models are released.

Other things can influence price. For awhile there was a huge excess of ddr3 ram a couple years ago and it was at an all time low. It's since gone back up (unfortunately). When a storm wipes out a manufacturing plant in asia like what happened with the seagate plant and wd plant a few years back, hard drive prices rocket. Many ati radeon video cards have bulked up in price with increased demand once people started buying them up for bitcoin mining.

If you go to pcpartpicker.com and search out whatever component(s) you're interested in, you can go to the bottom of the system build page and they show a chart with pricing trends on those parts. It may not be totally accurate, I'm not sure how correct it is but at least it will give a basic idea.