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.
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.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.
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.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.