welcome PC world fans Adam Patrick Murray here with the deals ninja Elena
Yi it is that time of the year to start you know saving up your money for all
the big deals coming down the pike with Black Friday Cyber Monday and all those
other great holidays Elaine is here with some awesome tips or tricks and tricks
about how to get those best deals and what PC components you should buy now
because it doesn't matter or you should wait for the deals yeah it gets more and
more confusing every year because November just is the start of the
general deal season so everyone asks me should I wait or should I you know by
now if I'm gonna upgrade my PC or if I'm gonna start you know buying parts for a
new PC yeah well I'm gonna go through that right now I can read these awesome
little cue cards CPU should I buy now or wait until the deals I say wait because
so as everyone knows intel parts just came out ninth gen just came out those
parts aren't on the table for you no deals anyway because they're kind of
hard to get right now but the previous gen 8th gen 8700 K all that kind of
started going up in price in the run-up to the 9th gen parts releasing we're
starting to see them go down a little bit now I think they still have more to
go and I feel like if AMD just does what they did last year which was just
basically slash and burn all their prices on 1st gen Rison it was really
nice that would encourage Intel to maybe lower the prices on at least 8th gen
parts further and then if 2nd gen risings on sale then that's also a great
time to buy that so in general I think waiting is a good idea okay so for CPU
let's wait for the CPU cooler should I buy it now or wait for me this is a
toss-up I think it depends on whether or not you have a very specific model in
mind or if you just generally want a new CPU cooler
I want the newest nook - then it doesn't really matter I feel like at that point
if you see a good price just go ahead and get it I think if
you're just looking for the absolute cheapest cooling you can get within a
certain price range and a certain feature set then go ahead and wait see
what you can get okay so a little toss-up between there next one a
motherboard okay so motherboards I think that you
should go ahead and just buy it mostly because but I would say the vast
majority of builders I talk to you have brand preferences right they have brand
preferences they have even form factor preferences aesthetic preferences and if
you're getting really specific it's gonna be a lot harder to find a specific
deal on the board that you're looking for unless it happens to be popular
enough that they're going to run some kind of deal that's just gonna be I
think that's just gonna be happens happy circumstance at that point though so if
you see a good price for it just go ahead and get it the one exception is
that if you're building if you're trying to build something budget then it's
worthwhile waiting just because there's so many deals at that time of year so if
you're not specific about it you don't care about the aesthetics you just want
a certain feature set and you think you can wait to get it then wait and other
thing choose if you think you're gonna get a CPU at the same time but it can
also be worth waiting for just because you might be able to take advantage of
like bundle deals or combo deals that will pop up that's mark cool all right
on to the next one GPU I say wait for all those great deals so here's the
thing though it kind of just split I feel like most people are going to be
buying Apple s or Pascal card so if that's the case and you've just been
waiting for the mining crisis to finally go away and never come back then it's
worth waiting a little bit longer to see if prices will drop further I think they
will I think they'll drop a little bit more
maybe like twenty to thirty dollars with mailing rebate that kind of thing and
you might be able to get some free games out of it if history kind of plays out
again yeah the two exceptions would be ten atti
they're reports coming out that that's low stock and once it runs out
it's not coming back so if you see a model that you like and it's on sale
it's a reasonable price go ahead and get it just because it's not gonna be
guaranteed it's gonna come back or it's gonna be available anymore
that would be such a sad thing okay favorite ten days yeah especially
because second exception is Archie X cards I don't think those are gonna go
on sale at all you think they'll actually hit street
prices I'm sorry prices MSRP sale so if you see a good price on our Tex card and
it's available then checkout embrace the future why would you wait another day
further to get an RT X card SSDs SSDs I'm gonna say something I didn't think I
would say which is go ahead and buy it I think the prices will come down
further but I'm saying this because the prices are so good right now relative to
what they've been over like what the last year that I don't think you'll be
disappointed even if they go on further sale right now you can get I think today
that's a 120 gigabyte SSD from Kingston so it's a known brand $23 nice other
brands that are well-known like are having more month erty dollars for 120
gigabyte SSD but that's still an amazing price amazing price and like between 120
and 500 gigs we're seeing great prices so even - 4500 all great those I
wouldn't wait on if you really want to upgrade now however if you're thinking
of going with a larger capacity drive like one terabyte or even larger I think
it is worth waiting just to see if you can get a little bit additional savings
because those haven't been dropping in price quite as rapidly as the lower
capacity it doesn't matter form-factor m2 or so
they're both dropping but m dot u is still slightly more expensive than a
standard 2.5 inch SATA drive okay great stock up while you can because the deals
are hot up this one must be the mistake nobody's getting hard disk drive if
somebody for some reason whoa because there are budget builders out
there and they are gonna build with like you know standard 1 terabyte drive as
their as their beginning you know storage I would say for people who are
looking for 2 terabytes and lower capacity then it's not worth waiting the
prices will get a little bit better I won't think it's gonna be a very steep
discount though so if you're impatient or you just don't want to wait longer or
any reason any reason at all you don't wanna wait just go ahead and do it if
it's larger than 2 terabytes I do think it's worth waiting especially the larger
the capacity so if if it's 3 terabytes maybe not so much of the discount as you
would see as like something in the 12 terabyte range okay so if that it just
really depends on your needs at that point but I also think though if you're
going for 12 terabytes maybe you won't feel it as bad if you don't wait but why
not save money what about zip disks uh RAM random
access memory should you buy now or wait to the deals wait as long as you can Ram
prices have been so terrible so terrible that I think the longer you can wait the
better if you are looking to buy this year Black Friday is probably gonna be
your best time of the year to buy in my opinion because you'll get the
additional savings and sales and whatever that new retailers are throwing
at us however the forecast is that 2019 the
prices will continue to come down and the word on the street is that right the
war in the street is that RAM won't be affected by tariffs so it only looks
like it's going to improve for 2019 and beyond for now for RAM but if you don't
want to wait that long then I would say wait for God Friday ok and if you can
wait for Black Friday 2019 yeah cases because we're small last one
so um cases I would say wait because I don't feel like cases are a thing that
you generally need because something died in your machine like it's it's more
of an aesthetic thing usually yeah so why not wait however if you're looking
for a particular model it goes you know on sale and it's a
decent price it's something that's reasonably think you're willing to pay
go ahead and get it if you're more loose in your requirements you don't need a
specific model then go ahead wait for Black Friday see what turns up in terms
of sales and then make your choice then if you're looking to build a budget PC
though I would definitely recommend waiting because the really cheap cases
are very very very heavily discounted then I think you can get a case I'm
Black Friday around like $20 okay with power supply possibly I don't remember
but maybe it's like $30 so you're paying you know like another 50 percent which
you could fry your system you can which we don't have an extra card but what
about power supply should you buy now or wait I just feel like power supply isn't
the thing that people typically upgrade and the whole point of this is kind of
in mind of people who are upgrading but if you need to get that new r-tx card
that's true so I would say for power supplies if you don't have a specific
requirement in terms of you know efficiency then you could wait usually
Black Friday there is an assortment of efficiency singer bronze and gold it's
and Platinum's and all that not a lot of models go on sale so as long as you
don't have brand loyalty it could be worth waiting for if you do have brand
loyalty then just you know see something for a decent price go ahead and get it
keep in mind that a lot of the power supply deals do involve mail-in rebate
so you'll have to be good about keeping track of that kind of thing okay well do
you have any other tips and tricks I do I actually have four more four so the
first one is something I just generally recommend to everybody okay so the first
one is what I recommend everybody just as a general good practice to do which
is make a list of everything you planning to buy and then also list out
what those features are that you're looking for in them so that way if
you're looking at stuff that we're putting up on PC rolled that we think
are good deals you know something that comes up on
reddit something your friend mentions to you and you think one of the sounds
really good I'll save like I don't know 30 dollars over what I was hoping to get
I might as well I might as well this way you have your list you can
compare and instantly tell yourself ah but it doesn't have this one feature
that I know I really want so I'm gonna pass on it or oh it actually does meet
most of my requirements I think I can live without this one thing I'll go
ahead and save the money and it makes life a lot easier so you don't have
regret when that box shows up on your door yeah that happens it's me still and
I follow my own advice sometimes this time all the time yeah the second tip is
for people who are like me and are always trying to get the best possible
price or go as low as you can I think most of the deals are still
gonna be the week of Black Friday so that's the week of the 23rd however have
a list ready of the things you want because it is possible for things to go
early so there could be that one off really incredible deal that happens
before Black Friday and you'll want to get in on that
I don't think that there's gonna be good deals beyond Cyber Monday and honestly I
don't even there's gonna be great stuff on Cyber Monday historically it's never
been that way yeah I'm happy to be wrong I'm happy to see great stuff on Cyber
Monday happy to see good stuff on you know in December but just be ready to
mostly do your shopping on that you know Thanksgiving weekend warm up do your
stretches you're fearless camel camel camel yeah Isis we're on it's like deals
you know I know all the things that normal people do of course third tip is
you can hedge your bets if you're not sure if you're gonna get the best deal
you want to try to get the absolute best you know what I mean by that is if you
find if you stop strategically so like if you are shopping at stores where the
return window is fairly generous like you know you have until December or even
January to return there's no restocking fees so if it's like a local branch of
the store that you can get to easily or there's free return shipping then it can
be worth your while to buy it when you think you see a good deal hold it don't
open it and then kind of like let the weekend
happen see if anything else comes up better and then if it does you know you
can return that first one without any real penalty and then you've you know
made the best of it research so you don't you don't get ya do you research
you don't get you know hit by like a short return window that you weren't
expecting and then you have to keep it because it's beyond you know that time
also be careful about doing this too much because stores do keep track of
this sort of thing and if you do too much at once or if you do it like
repeatedly over time they can and will ban you from shopping with them
so I'm very careful with it but there are a couple of purchases here and there
that I will do this for of course some people feel this is not a cool thing to
do if that's not your thing definitely don't do it but it's just it's a
strategy okay the last one is keep in mind the fact that tariffs may be
affecting prices next year for most components so word on the street is that
I think it's SSDs and RAM won't be affected but pretty much every other
component will so it's possible that the prices we're seeing during Black Friday
may be the best we will see for a little bit until all that equalizes out come
next year okay I think to the end of the year there will be enough stock that it
won't be affected yet but in 2019 we might start seeing things rise in price
okay it's not clear how much or when or any of that so depending how you feel
about taking a risk or not taking a risk on this sort of thing then make your
decision there you know if you're gonna buy this year or wait okay well thank
you for all these insightful tips I know I will pass them on to Dan and anybody
else I know but if I want real-time coverage and the best possible deals
what's the best way to to find those um we'll be doing a lot of deal coverage
around Black Friday deals on PC roll comm you can also follow me on Twitter
I'm at morphing ball which is a Super Metroid reference and I often will pose
the deals that personally appeal to me or I think are especially good and like
give some you know airtime to and then I think there was some talk in the office
about seeing if you could get me all to do a live stream like live deals like
it's 24 hours dream and Patrick desk and if she finds the deal she's gonna turn
toward the camera and be like deal go get it now if that's something you're
interested in you know let us know in the comments
I consider that baby was well-fed with ham and turkey for Thanksgiving
I think it depends on how many people actually say they would tune in for the
live deals like three people who are you know really in it to win it with me I
don't know if I no offense I appreciate it but you know bathroom breaks know
that are nice there you go alright well keep keep locked to PC world and our
YouTube channel for more great deals in Black Friday's coming right around the
corner so get ready thank you