[vfio-users] Building New System - Start Now Or Wait

[Will Marler]

The next iteration of hardware will always make the current iteration look
bad.

But this will never stop -- there will always be n+1. And you will *always* be
in the position of saying "well ... I could buy n now, but I could wait
until n+1 in some months... I should wait," even when n becomes n+1.

A better question to ask is "what if I buy n-1 now... would I be happy?"
Because that is the position you will be in when "the next big thing" is
released.

"Is there a reason" -- there is always a reason. But it's only a question
you can answer. For me, someone who wishlists games on Steam and buys them
when they are 75% (or more) off, and often only if they have a Linux
version (even if I'm playing them on Windows ...), n-1 hardware is always
acceptable (provided that it works with VGA passthrough ;-). For you
though, this might not be the case. You might have more money, more time to
spend, more interest in playing the just-released games... yadda yadda.


On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Ira Morris <IMorris at smartpathtech.com>
wrote:

> I would be buying the system a piece at a time, as such, I'm not up on the
> latest hardware that could be coming out that will affect setting up a
> monster KVM rig.  I plan to start piecing the system together over the next
> 4-6 months.  But I'm wondering, if there is a reason to hold off for the
> "next big thing" in CPU's or GPU's?
>
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