5070 TI or 9700XT minimum. Maybe find a decent deal on a 7900 XT or XTX if possible.

Ryzen 9700X + RTX 5070 (or maybe Radeon RX 9070), I would guess - give or take a bit. 32 GB of RAM should also get you pretty far, although there's a fair chance that it won't last ten years. Depending on where the final price of the build otherwise ends up, you might want to add some suffixes to the components (e.g. RTX 5070 Ti instead of Ti 5070). Depending on your exact needs, you might also want to cheap out a bit on the GPU and upgrade in a few years to more easily reach those ten years, if you're willing to take a bit of a hit until you upgrade.

Take your $1500 and invest in the stock market. Buy stock in companies supporting Electric Vehicles.

Trust me, 10 years from now, EVs will be all the rage. Gasoline cars are going down !!! (Just like LCD tvs replaced CRT tvs)

You can't really make PC that will last you comfortably 10 years with no upgrades, for any budget, let alone $1500 - well, I guess if you bought 6700K and Titan X in 2015, you could still play current games in 1080p at low(er) quality presets...

But what you can do is focus on very good CPU that can last you very long time (cause that's what you might not even end up replacing by your PC's EOL), so something like AMD's 9800X3D with good cooling (unless you specifically have fetish for something like Cities: Skylines 2, in which case you want to go with more than 8 core CPU), good amount of RAM (at least 2x16GB for now, you can pop in more later, but be sure to choose motherboard with 4 memory slots) and fast NVMe (go with 7000+ MB/s sequential read speed for your Games drive, at least TLC memory is preferable, but you can get away with QLCs for Games drive, just don't buy it for System drive). All this will last a long time.

Now, GPU is tricky one - whatever you buy now, it's old tech compared to what's coming from both nVidia and AMD...so, I would probably go with bare minimum to get you over next few years where we're still in this gen and early cross-gen (so something like 9060XT is more than sufficient), and only then buy something really good.

Not to distract but are you interested in the prospect of MS offering a Premade Xbox PC in the next year or 2?

Computers have always been able to connect to TV since the 2010s. 

All you need is a HDMI connection which pretty much is standard nowadays on both computers and TVs which have at least 2 HDMI ports. 

I play all three of my consoles (Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X) and both of my gaming PCs on my 85'' Sony TV and I also have a separate HDMI connection going to a 27'' monitor on the side as well.

As for expecting 10 years out of it....you might want to look into a overhaul around the 5-6 year mark and do a complete overhaul by the 7th year to be honest. Doing a overhaul every 5 years is my goal and the jump with tech is huge between 5 years.

Whatever you do, go with a AMD CPU. AMD GPUs are okay but Nvidia is pretty good but pricey.

All those GPU cards from at least 2000 onward with S-Video output:

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Since I wasn't sure if you had already an Windows license or if you wanted to go Linux, I left out the OS. Also not included are any peripherals like Mouse and keyboard. Without the OS, we're at $1491.

µThe 7600X was dirt cheap at over $100 less than the 7700XT or 9600XT, so I saw no reason going bigger for now. The 9070XT was also only $60 more than the 9070, so taking the non-XT version didn't make any sense. NVidia even less, as per HU testing just yesterday (link below) the 9070 is 13% faster than the 5070 at the same price, and the 5070Ti too expensive to compete with the 9070XT.

And before. I had my PC connected to my TV and CRT projector in 1997. S-Video out indeed. Half-Life on CRT projector with Dolby Surround sound was amazing!

I actually had a GPU with s-video in as well so I could play console games on my PC monitor (and have TV on in a corner of the monitor while playing RTS), although the primary reason was that the Dreamcast didn't display on my projector directly. Using my PC in between, upscaling to 800x600 then s-video out worked. Crazy Taxi on the wall, better than in the Arcade.

Anyway it's much easier now since GPUs and laptops all have HDMI out, plug in the cable and it auto switches. No more issues with overscan areas now displays are 1:1 (as long as you don't set the output resolution different from the TV)


For a gaming PC also make sure the PSU has enough overhead (wattage) in case you want to upgrade to more powerful GPUs later. You don't want to max out your PSU.

For a 10-year target, I'd rather invest in an 8-core CPU and skimp out a bit on the GPU, so you can probably get by without upgrading the CPU. The GPU will probably have to be upgraded way before the 10-year period is full, so might as well skimp out on it and upgrade a tad sooner.

For Windows, I'd just buy a suspiciously cheap license from eBay or something. I've bought two such licences for myself and one for someone else from a local eBay equivalent, and they've all been just fine.