Nov 06 2012, 08:34 AM
HoboBob, post: 79067, member: 4107 Wrote:HDD prices aren't droppingHere in Japan I've seen steep price drops in HDDs over the last few months. A typical HDD costs about 40% less than it did back in July. The damaged caused by flooding in Thailand last fall halted a lot production and hiked prices internationally by up 200% or 300%. Like analysts at the time predicted, extremely limited supply kept prices artificially inflated through to the beginning of summer, but it's been dropping a lot recently, which means production is back (as expected).
If prices haven't adjusted yet where you live, wait just a little longer. Unless there is a new intense disruption in the supply chain, prices will not just drop, but continue to do so for a while.
Regard SSD pricing, it'll probably also continue to drop, but only incrementally. A comment by a writer at Tomshardware.com last month leaves room for concern.
Quote:"Have you held off on an SSD upgrade? You may not need to. Vendors are cutting their prices yet again, and 256 GB drives under $200 are particularly tempting. We've heard rumors as to why SSDs are so cheap, though, and we're not sure this is sustainable."
While SSD prices may continue to drop, HDD prices look set to do so at a far more rapid rate.
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I'm just curious, but why are you mentioning the Radeon 6990? Do you have an extra one that he could use?
Availability on that card was intensely scarce right from it's release. It was only produced in limited quantities, ran hot and loud if I remember correct, and cost an arm and a leg. I'm sure it runs faster than a 7870 since they're in different classes, but the 7870 is still an absolutely decent card that use so much less power to achieve it's results.
This page may be of interest:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gami...107-5.html
Oh, and if Cas has access to a temporary or used decent graphics card at a killer price, a little more juice in the CPU department (eg. Core i5 with a different MoBo) sounds good. Battlefield 3 seems to be very graphics dependent in single player, but multi-player might require a little more from the CPU.
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