Vhalidictes wrote:I've found over the years that price/performance is simply more important than a set budget. My brother in law spent an insane amount of money for a PC once. I'm talking 5-7x the amount that I normally spent, and I had good equipment at the time. He said "this PC will be awesome for three times longer than your current one will be in service; I spent less money than you would."
It was a brand-new just-released Pentium Pro 200 system, and he was absolutely correct; he probably owned it for 6 years before replacing it, and I'd spend half as much three times over on upgrades during that time.
Now, I buy the price-performance king, it's usually the 2nd best part available at the time, and then keep it for 5+ years. This has saved me literally thousands over the years. I have a relatively-new i7-5820K family computer that sure, was really expensive at the time, but I won't need to upgrade it any time soon.
Side note: hurrah for Intel's dumb product segmentation! If I actually cared about PCIe lanes I would have had to spend almost twice as much for the next CPU up (this was back when Haswell-E was just released).
I can't agree more. Which in the case for Zen rumored prices, unless you soooo cash-strapped it makes no sense not to at least get the $300 8C/16T SKU straight off the bat, in an age where the expected useful life of CPUs is at least 5 years.
