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| Thread ID: 55551 | 2005-03-14 00:02:00 | How quickly do hardware prices drop? | saikou (7056) | Press F1 |
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| 333727 | 2005-03-14 00:02:00 | Hello, When I return to NZ in August I will be buying a new computer. Currently my mobo of choice is the Asus P5AD2-E which I can get for about 25% less here than I can in NZ. My question is, do you think the Asus P5AD2-E will have dropped in price a little by August? Cause I'd rather buy in NZ as sometimes international warranty can be a hassle, or some companies like Samsung won't do it. I don't watch hardware prices enough to know.. Thanks. |
saikou (7056) | ||
| 333728 | 2005-03-14 00:16:00 | It really depends how the local vendors purchase, and how the (current) record NZ dollar high against the $US is reflected. Currency fluctuations are probably the major factor. People complain when local prices go up, so some vendors may hedge against the $ fluctuations, which means when the $ improves, they cannot gain on that until the hedge contract expires. So I doubt that there is any single or simple answer. You pay your money and take your chance. But by August the Motherboard will be obsolete anyway. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 333729 | 2005-03-14 00:32:00 | Where your item of hardware sits on the update cycle also has an effect, If they flip over to a new cpu design then the cost of the motherboards using the old design plummet,apart from the highend models which tend to hold their value. So, as Godfather suggested, pay your money and take your chances,August is a long way off in terms of hardware,with no garentee that the motherboard your after will even still be available, though if your buying off a quality vendor they should be able to do some soothsaying.....(which is a double edged sword,someone full of crap could tell ya a load of crap,and some honest Joe with the best intentions may steer you wrong) |
Metla (12) | ||
| 333730 | 2005-03-14 01:05:00 | Thanks. As far as being obsolete, as long as it's still available that's good enough for me. After all it's (apparently) top of the line right now. My current mobo is an Aopen that wasn't even a great board 2 years ago when I got it. Please don't mention the NZ dollar. Each point up means my yen savings are worth significantly less. :horrified |
saikou (7056) | ||
| 333731 | 2005-03-14 01:08:00 | Check with a price search engine in Canada near Aug. In NZ you can use www.pricespy.co.nz and link around and bookmark some of the stores that interest you ... Compare and make a decsion close to Aug. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 333732 | 2005-03-14 02:17:00 | once you buy pc gear and leave the shop its out dated, it seems just like yesterday when my olds brought a P4 1.8ghz and now thats sooo slow and outdated | Prescott (11) | ||
| 333733 | 2005-03-14 03:47:00 | The answer to your question is really quite simple. The price drops about five minutes after I buy anything. | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 333734 | 2005-03-14 04:00:00 | By August the P5AD2-E might be obsolete. There could easily be a new chipset out for dual core P4s which would be a much better purchase. Also if you are going the DDR2/P4 way, you will have to spend a lot on low latency DDR2 RAM to get anything that will beat some of those older DDR chipsets or A64s of a lower price point. |
E|im (87) | ||
| 333735 | 2005-03-14 04:34:00 | I wouldn't bank on dual cpu's, at least not untill the 2nd or 3rd generation. The heat issue remains which means each core will have to be slower then current cpu's,and the second core will largely be ignored, few programs make use of it, or would benifit from it.The only thing people are going to see is perhaps slightly snappier XP perfomance (which is instant anyhow, untill people bog it down, and that will continue to happen) and poorer performance from the likes of games and such. Even apps will run slower as only the highend ones are designed to make use of 2 cpu's. When we get to the point where we have two 5ghz cores being used to their full potential......then the tech will be worth buying. Having said that, Why do people agonise over a motherboard purchase,its not like the current Intel gear is any good. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 333736 | 2005-03-14 05:28:00 | Hello, When I return to NZ in August I will be buying a new computer. Currently my mobo of choice is the Asus P5AD2-E which I can get for about 25% less here than I can in NZ. My question is, do you think the Asus P5AD2-E will have dropped in price a little by August? Cause I'd rather buy in NZ as sometimes international warranty can be a hassle, or some companies like Samsung won't do it. I don't watch hardware prices enough to know.. Thanks. Well I ordered one exactly the same and asked them to hold it for two weeks. However the next day I got a notification from them that the price had dropped by $94 so I grabbed it then and there. Memory on the other hand appears to be going up in price again. Supply and demand I guess. |
Big John (551) | ||
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