Gradual buying? Good or bad idea?

Russ88765

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Is it unwise to buy parts for a computer build gradually? Is it better to get higher quality but less components for now and get more later vs saving for everything all at once?
 
It's unwise to buy new parts and shelve them while waiting for more parts depending on how long it's going to be.
The warranty clock starts ticking when you buy not when you assemble.
 
It's unwise to buy new parts and shelve them while waiting for more parts depending on how long it's going to be.
The warranty clock starts ticking when you buy not when you assemble.

plus newer, faster, and cheaper parts will come out, like if someone bought an 1156 or 1366 mobo and was gradually buying then about a month before they had it all and had it useable, bam, sandy comes out and is way better, and they coulda saved money and still gotten it done at the same time, they'd be pissed for not saving and getting sandy instead.
 
it's really hard to have parts sitting there and not be able to do anything with them. I had it for about a week, and it was absolute torture. I was forever opening boxes, then having to suffer the disappointment of closing them back up again.
 
jonnyp11 said:
like if someone bought an 1156 or 1366 mobo and was gradually buying then about a month before they had it all and had it useable, bam, sandy comes out and is way better, and they coulda saved money and still gotten it done at the same time, they'd be pissed for not saving and getting sandy instead.
Yeah I made this mistake with my first build, and it was with 1156 funnily enough. I started buying stuff in October 2010 when 1156 and the i5 760 were still the latest components, but I only got a case, PSU and graphics card, then I got the rest (motherboard, RAM, hard drives etc etc) in December 2010 after Christmas that year, only to build my system with the 1156 i5 760, and then not two weeks later Sandy Bridge came along. If I had just waited two weeks I could have gotten a 2500K well over a year ago. I was so annoyed.

Perkomate said:
it's really hard to have parts sitting there and not be able to do anything with them. I had it for about a week, and it was absolute torture. I was forever opening boxes, then having to suffer the disappointment of closing them back up again.
I agree. I remember having my case sat at the back of the room in its box, and I was always taking it out if out the box just to imagine what my final build would look like.
 
What about the advantages like getting reduced prices on your gear because of how long it takes to get? What if you can only get one part at the time?
 
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