Should I wait on Windows 10 to build new PC?

Just wondering since it's out in less than two months. Would that make things easier, instead of getting 8.1 then the upgrade? what would you guys do?

Build your pc now and enjoy it, you will be able to upgrade to Win10 from Win 8.

I would likely just build it now, you can get win10 for a year with no issues.

On a seperate yet still relavant notion to this, anyone else found the wording for signing up for the update slightly odd? Or did I mistake soemthing initially, when I thought it was "just for one year" you could do it?

I am unsure If it is an European thing, but the third bulletpoints states "when you have downloaded Windows 10 you own it" the small print seems to be worded that you have 1 year to accept the jump, not only 1 year to upgrade. Ofcourse this is some butchered version of English translation since my OS is not English. Anyone have a better cut and dry notion of it is a year of updating or a year of accepting the upgrade?

back to topic, just build the PC now, you would just get stuck in the constant cycle of something nearly comming out to wait for.

If it's not 100% needed right now I'd wait till the end of the year. Windows 10 will be live, dx12 as well. With both of those comes the new cards from AMD and Nvidia marking a generation leap in technology, not an incremental one like we've had for the last 6 years. Also AMD and Intel should by then have new processors out, also marking a generational leap.

Honestly building a pc right now IMO is the dumbest thing to do. Why buy a computer with the last in a generation of hardware that houses all it's incremental changes and improvements when literally months away you can have one based off of the tech they've been perfecting for the next big leap in performance and efficiency to put us literally into the next generation of pc gaming.

Why buy current gen when next gen pc hardware is just around the damn corner?

@ribstaylor1: Seeing as Nvidia and AMD will not be releasing their next series of GPUs until 2016.... you might as well buy now. Unless you are holding out for Intel Skylake CPU which will come in a few months.

Ugh, I understand this all too well. This latest hardware jump just can't come fast enough. I know next gen hardware like Skylake, DDR4 RAM, Windows 10, etc. are just around the corner, but I just finished my college semester and now have all the free time to build, since I'm on summer vacation.

But there's no point in building now since anything I build will be outdated in about 1-2 months.

So I'm stuck. During the school year, my parts list for my next PC was ready, but I never had any time to actually order, build and game. Now, I have all the time in the world, but now my parts list is ''To be updated''...

I'm in much the same situation as OP, thinking about putting something together now XCOM2 has been made PC only (and Fallout 4 is on the way...), though I'd probably not have the funds until the end of the year at this rate as I'm starting from scratch.

With Skylake and W10 coming in the second half of the year I'll probably aim to wait a little while after the jump.

With this kind of next-gen leap in tech, are there usually any issues with backwards compatibility/system stability issues that I should be aware of when it all kicks off?

Has microsoft said if windows 10 will be tied to be motherboard yet?