That's a decent budget to build a good gaming pc.
Case - Your PC case will outlive all of your other components, so don't cheapen out. Get a tower with plenty of room and good airflow.
PSU - Some cases are sold with a PSU but they tend to be garbage. I had one of them blow up on me. Currently I have a 750w PSU and other than the case and some hard drives it has outlived all the other components. Get one from a decent brand.
Mobo - The considerations are the number and type of pcie slots, m.2 slots, and how well it handles overclocking.
CPU - When it comes to high performance gaming your CPU is always the bottleneck. You want one with the best single core performance. Right now that's Intel but AMD is catching up. For Intel get at least 8 cores at about 5ghz.
GPU - Performance usually scales linearly with the price. Get as fast of a gpu as you can afford.
Drives - Get an SSD, m.2 nvme.
RAM - Aim for 32 gb as some games can use that much. Don't go below 16 gb. As far as speed, I'm not a fan of spending too much money to get faster RAM, but you can do it to get slightly better framerates.
I'll try to take these suggestions to the pcpartpicker site someone else commented
Your PC case will outlive all of your other components, so don't cheapen out
I pulled my case out of a skip, it's the least important part of the build IMO?
everything else I agree with
I'd hate to be dropping money on a build right now, GPU prices are just so bad
If it was a budget build I'd recommend getting a cheap case. Since OP is willing to spend upwards of $2k on the build, I recommend a good case since he can afford it. We're not talking about a lot of money here--an extra $50 to go from a shitty case to a good case. I've had a nice Antec case for ten years that has been through two upgrades (three different motherboards) and I couldn't be happier with it.
I seem to just repurpose my old PC's or give them away, I've got cases going back 30 years because they stopped making solid cases a long time ago.
Maybe I don't get why anyone would drop $2K on just one PC right now, I'd rather have a few hundred spare so I can upgrade again in a few years when we are out of this slump
I disagree on the case. OP should go for mini-ITX board and put it in a Dan A4-SFX case. Do the research from a forum and copy someone elses build for first time. I have several builds with this case.
You didn't say why you think a smaller case like Dan A4-SFX is better for OP.
Just depends on where you're going to put it. For a lot of people that's under a desk where it doesn't matter. A bigger case leaves more room to work and can accommodate bigger coolers if you're into that. For dexterity reasons alone, I would recommend a full size case to a first time builder. But obviously if that's going to be a problem for your space, don't do it.
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