[SOLVED] Thinking about a new build?

May 22, 2020
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Hi all, apologies if this is a little imprecise, but it's been about 8 years since I built my last rig and all the time at home has made me itching to build a new one. I haven't checked prices and the market in ages - has COVID-19 affected prices at all? I know it's never really a "good" time to build a rig (there's always something better around the corner), but has the coronavirus made it an especially bad time to refresh my old PC?
 
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It depends on the country you are in as well as the part, but from my experience in the UK, COVID has not affected prices that much. Worst case around £10 more but most of the parts have remained the same, some even down.

Over on https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/, when you click a PC Part, at the bottom it shows you a graph of the price history of the part in question, a good approximation of the price trend in a certain amount of time.

What is your budget? With the rise of Ryzen and the new Comet Lakes, a budget CPU that can run games exponentially well is as easy as it has been for a little while now and the NVIDIA 2000 series which has great performance from around the 2060 to the 2070S.
May 16, 2020
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It depends on the country you are in as well as the part, but from my experience in the UK, COVID has not affected prices that much. Worst case around £10 more but most of the parts have remained the same, some even down.

Over on https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/, when you click a PC Part, at the bottom it shows you a graph of the price history of the part in question, a good approximation of the price trend in a certain amount of time.

What is your budget? With the rise of Ryzen and the new Comet Lakes, a budget CPU that can run games exponentially well is as easy as it has been for a little while now and the NVIDIA 2000 series which has great performance from around the 2060 to the 2070S.
 
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May 22, 2020
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I was thinking 1k-1.5k for my budget excluding monitor and peripherals. From a cursory checking pcpartpicker (which I don't think was even around the last time I built a rig, great tool!) looks like I can achieve that with a nice ryzen and 2070 super based build.
 
May 22, 2020
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Unfortunately no, it's just gonna be Amazon/Walmart/Newegg for me. I'm not in a big rush since I've got a small kid and daycare's closed for the time being, so I'll probably just start putting together a list of options and put in an order when it looks like daycare will become a reliable option again...