Futureproofing

[rosco44]

Buying the best you can afford in the hope that it'll satisfy your growing like for technology. Buying more than you need now just in case you get round to trying out that overclocking thingy, or watching something in HD or getting one of those games you hear about occasionally. Ceasing being a spectator of the ever-developing IT market and hoping your purchase will retain it's usefulness whilst everything next year will be twice as good and half as cheap.

So, why not an i5 2500K, Z68 mobo, 4G RAM, 1TB HDD, 22" 1080 screen for £500ish + delivery?
maybe a graphics card in the future
maybe a SSD
maybe some decent speakers and a sound card...

or is the next best thing just around the corner so I should wait?
will Win8 be just great or should I got for it now and svae money with Ubuntu?

 

[bootneck02]

My experience is that I built my PC and completed it about 3 months before the i series of CPU's and PC3 RAM came out. I think you need to build to what you can afford and expect to run it for the next 5 years or longer as technology advances quicker than we do and there is always something new next week or next month.

 

[muckshifter]

So, why not an i5 2500K, Z68 mobo, 4G RAM, 1TB HDD, 22" 1080 screen for £500ish + delivery?

Why not, it is the basic entry level 'PC' I see touted around these days. Not cutting edge, but what the heck, it'll connect to the tinternet.

maybe a graphics card in the future?

Well, that would certainly help the 'view' on the bog standard 22" (21.5 really) monitor, but only if you wanna 'see' anything.

What you 'need' is an i9 4657 MX BG GT GTX, 1TB SSD 3rd gen, plus two 2TB storage drives
21600 rpm, GTX BG GT Etype 980 GC, 256MB TDR4/5 RAM, a 36" all-singing-dancing monitor and a Blu-ray drive or whatever is coming out next week, and a set of five speakers that will offer immersive multimedia playback.

May have to pay a bit more than £1000 ... but then, you could just use your phone.

 

[bootneck02]

My other thought is why don't you build your own it is quite simple as an OAP with little or none experience I did with help from a Haynes build your own manual. You get more bang for your bucks and and you with from PCR members advice could build a great PC for £500 and you would have the satisfaction of something of having a better than the generic PC you buy in the shops and on line.

 

[floppybootstomp]

El floppo he say:

1) Whatever you buy will be out of date the day after you bought it.
2) If you waited for the next improvement in computer technology and software you'd never actually own a computer.

It's not all bad though, I'm still using a machine I put together in November 2006. Currently has Win 7 Home 64 Bit on it.

Still smarts a bit though when I think I paid £300-ish for an 8800GT graphics card at the time. Current value: about tuppence.