I’m on a $1,500 budget - Help me purchase my first gaming PC

[JEMC]

firebush03 said:

JEMC said:

Since you have a budget in mind, the biggest questions that will decides the parts of your build are:1) Will you use the PC for something else other than gaming? 2) What is the resolution/refresh rate of your monitor? Or is that also part of your build?

In any case, since you want a computer that can be used for a long time with the option to be upgraded, your only course of action right now is going with an AMD AM5 motherboard and CPU.

I’d be open to purchasing a monitor which fits whatever PC I purchase. Though it would be nice to run games on my TV, if that’s something you can do with a PC? (Link to TV.)

You can connect a PC to a TV with no problem at all. Just a regular HDMI cable will work.

The system NyanNyanNekoChan has shared is good, but for a 4K TV, I'd put more budget on the GPU and less on the CPU (at that resolution your PC will be limited by the graphics cards and a modest CPUs will deliver almost the same experience as more expensive ones in most games as a site called Hardware Unboxed proved recently in a video (link), and here is the same but in written format (link)).

I'd try to upgrade the GPU from a 9060XT to a 9070XT or Nvidia 5070Ti and downgrade the CPU to a more modest 7600X or the 7700X if you prefer having an 8-core CPU insted of a 6-core one. But I don't know how are prices over there.

Please be aware that if you go with a bigger GPU, you'll need to also change the power supply to one with 850W to be safe.