Am4 is easily upgraded. 5600x is best bang for your buck. 16 is low but usable. With memory prices I'd wait. Video card...1660 is old sauce and the 590 driver is end of life. Newegg has a whole section dedicated to used cards. You can get a modern 3060ti for around 250ish.

If your gonna ditch win 10 for Linux, I'd recommend getting an AMD video card instead. Otherwise rest fits.

I'm kinda interested in waiting to see what the Steam Machine brings to the table. I'm sure it won't be a huge step up compared to the latest and greatest today, but it could be a very nice and simple way to upgrade.

If you're lucky the best CPU you put in that socket is a 5800x3d. Which is a good CPU, but it's going on 5 years old at this point. The GPU needs a massive upgrade. You MIGHT be able to find some still decent priced DDR4 RAM but that's doubtful in this market.

You'd be sinking a lot of money into older parts.

I'd say buy new and with the way RAM is priced these days I'd honestly get a pre built while they still have half decent prices. Something that will actually let you upgrade it when prices become not retarded. So no proprietary cases or boards.

Why not teach your son a trade and let the games be less of a prominent part of his life?

Games are like hard drugs these days. His mind needs a break so he can become a man instead of a (((consoomer))). If he still wants to play BF6, he can do it after the day's work is done.

You know... You can take a screenshot with Windows key + shift + s and not be a nigger and take a picture of your screen.....

Also, if the game is running from the old HDD getting a SSD will help some. I don't see what ram the system has, ram is expensive as fuck all right now though. It's old enough I might have some in a parts bin collecting dust depending on what it uses though. (16 gig is not bad, more is better)

Rollback to 7 ftw!

You got an AM4, so max it out with a 5950X and max out that RAM.

You and me both. I built it at the end of 2017, it's showing its age sometimes. I got Ryzen 1600 on a decent MSI motherboard, but it's the very first gen so I doubt it can run 5600, at best it could be 3600 but it's old too by now. Still using good ole 1060 6gb, I could upgrade it but then CPU will be a massive bottleneck, plus nvidia jews are crazy with prices nowadays. I did get extra ram and storage at least while it was cheap. But then when I realize I don't play modern slop whatsoever, I put the idea of an upgrade on the shelf once again, lol.

Video cards have lost their momentum in the last 8-10 years. I recently went from a 1### Nvidia card to the 5### blackwell (over 10 years waiting), and it was only a moderate improvement. Ray tracing is a total gimmick used to sell hardware and the settings on games going from low/medium to ultra aren't that noticeable. I would wait for RAM prices to drop at a bare minimum.

Have you considered teaching your son about Linux?

I know it won't play Battlefield 6, but there are plenty of other games to be played, and it might be a good idea to ween the kid off the Bill Gates AI spyware now, before it is too late.

The only thing I did recently was replace my spinning storage disk with an SSD. A cheap 2TB SSD is about $140, and even if it's not necessarily the fastest thing in the system, for bulk storage it runs rings around the spinning rust that was there.