I’ve been pricing out components for my first new build in 20 years. (I’ve bought many ebay servers and a few mini PCs in between).
The parts are around $2k. But then I look at the amd ai max+ 395 PCs that are out or coming out shortly and I think I might be buying an already obsolete platform. For the same price I’d get 16 cores and over 2x the memory bandwidth.
It’s not that something faster is going to be out next year, it’s that it’s out now. There’s no way to upgrade an AM5 to quad channel ddr5 8000. You can keep the case and SSD for either PC.