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I'm 2nd tier all the way! But i take your point, it's probably a wiser approach.
Surely even if I'm buying fairly middle of the road parts it'll take a few years before obsolescence kicks in?
Dugtheslug-
if I'm buying fairly middle of the road parts it'll take a few years before obsolescence kicks in?
It's not so much obsolescence (with luck, you can get 10 years of service out of hardware before it will no longer run software which is still getting support) as buyer's remorse. If you buy a mobo which supports PCIe 4.0 now, you're going to be pissed in a year's time when you've saved up for a hard disk that not only can you now afford a PCIe 5.0 M2 SSD, but the equivalent mobo now supports PCIe 5.0 and costs less than you paid for the one which has been sitting in your unfinished projects box for a year.
gbj_tester
Set whatever money you have budgeted aside every month and buy all at once when you have enough. PC tech changes fast enough that you could find yourself compromised if you commit to one component now. Also, what is latest and greatest now will be second tier in a year's time and almost certainly cheaper in nominal terms than it is now.