You won't be able to build anything worth a damn for $1,000 new. Buy a used pre-built gaming rig or better yet get an Xbox series X. The xbox is equal to a 3700x/2080ti build which would cost $2000+ to build an equivalent gaming PC. You get all of that for $500, it will blow away most gaming PCs on the planet currently.
Agreed, mostly due to the elephant in the room that no one has touched: GPUs are fucking impossible to find right now, unless you're fine paying jew scalpers 3-5x their worth.
Disagree about consoles; they're one trick pony, walled garden shitboxes.
You can buy a prebuilt and strip it. You're looking at 20-40% loss on the turnover.
Not so much true anymore. The Xbox series X can do everything that most people use a PC for. It can go online, watch videos and play video games.
It is also a 3700x, 2080ti build for fucking 500. Even if you hate consoles you have to admit that is an insanely good deal.
It is also completely keyboard and mouse compatible.
Even if a person needed a PC you could buy a $300 laptop and Xbox series X for $800.
You're going to spend well over $2000 to get something as powerful as the Xbox series X in PC form
They're still walled gardens, and all of those features they come with are the feautures you're stuck with, which is the antithesis of the PC experience.
The only reason they're specced so high at affordable prices is because they are mass produced with exclusive hardware and sold at a massive loss. The profit comes from software publishing deals, services, and collected data.
No joke. I fail to get why everything is out of stock except for crypto miners or scalpers.
Intentional underproduction to draw out demand coupled with a massive increase in demand far beyond previous years
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