Question Upgrade now or wait til black Friday?

[SithWizard]

So I have a I7 8700k, GTX1080, 32 gigs of ddr4 ram, 1 tb m2 drive and am thinking of building a new godzilla machine. I cannot decide if I should build it now or if I should wait until November 2023 black Friday. I do want to see what FSR 3.0 will do and with the AMD x3d chips dying and Intels 14th gen coming later this year hmmm... I mean I could wait but I really want to build a new rig this coming month lol. I am one of them guys who has a tough time with making these types of decisions. Now throw a plate of deviled eggs and beans in front of me and I am in hog heaven!
What would you guys do? (the system not the eggs n beans).

 

[Why_Me]

Black Friday sales usually amounts to a bunch of hardware that doesn't move so they drop the prices on it in the hopes someone will buy it.

 

[Lafong]

It is rank speculation how much prices for SPECIFIC components might differ on Black Friday. Lots of stuff won't be marked down at all.

You stand a better chance if you might accept a fairly wide variety of components in Godzilla, but if you want ONLY say 5 or 6 specific components (this board, that cooler, that GPU, this CPU; that RAM), you'd be on thin ice.

Deviled eggs? I'll take a dozen right now.

 

[bill001g]

More do you actually "need?" a new machine. There is no way to say for sure what you do. Prices can go either way. You never know if inflation is going to continue or if other economic conditions will affect prices in the next 6 months.

I got burned because I was thinking about a gpu upgrade just before the crypto garbage. I then though I would just wait it out until my GPU failed and I was forced to spend way more than I wanted on a replacement.

After building some machines for people last black friday I got the idea to upgrade my gaming machine and was waiting for the new amd x3d chips. In some ways I was lucky and have been in gamer burn out mode for the past couple months so I have no real need to upgrade a machine. Now I will wait out the AM5 cpu/motherboard self destruct drama maybe I find a game that makes me want to turn the machine on.

So I have seen both sides to the waiting until xxx date issue.

You have to be very careful a lot of the black friday sales are not actual sales. I would put together a general part list and start to track the prices. From the machines I built last year for other people it seems they got most the parts from the local micro center and only a couple from amazon or new eggs black friday. Microcenter if you have one close tends to have good prices year round with random sales.

 

[USAFRet]

Timeline of a Black Friday sale on a random part:

MSRP - $200
Normal price through the year - $170
Random 2 day sale in June - $155
Mid September - $200
Black Friday - $160 20% OFF!!! Buy this NOW!!!

 

[ckelih]

Black Friday sales usually amounts to a bunch of hardware that doesn't move so they drop the prices on it in the hopes someone will buy it.

That is not even true or not even in most of the cases. They drop stuff where they know people will buy it all and since a certain % not buys only a TV but also a TV stand or other stuff that goes with a TV, they calculate how much cheaper they can make the main stuff but still make a profit cause people who want sales always buy more than just one thing. A guy who buys a new PC might say, Oh I saved 100 bugs on this PC, lets buy a new mouse and keyboard as well.