Bad time to purchase strix halo?

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Summary

The article questions whether now is a good time to purchase Strix Halo hardware considering the upcoming release of 495+ and RAM crisis, and requests recommendations for quiet boxes to run local LLMs like Qwen models.

with the imminent release of the 495+ I'm wondering if it's worthwhile investing in a strix halo right now. Normally this would be a terrible time to buy technology, but these are unprecedented times for some reason I doubt there will be the typical generational price drop, maybe it will simply be a new higher priced tier as the RAM crisis bites. Am I crazy? Are the marginal discounts available now worth it? I will get a specific box for local llms eventually I think, now we have Qwen3.8FN (and Qwen4 down the line) so I'd love for recommendations of boxes that have had good experience with, preferably on the quiet running side EDIT: budget is £5k/€5.8k/$6.7k
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