@AnimeNerd123 I don't feel hounded at all, at least not by you. I just didn't finish with everything else I had to do until after midnight yesterday, or today, so poking around on the Cyberpower site, where I always start so I can get a sense of price ranges, kind of got pushed back.
Anyway, the build your coworker provided is mostly good, although how good depends to a large extent on the price. A few things I'd say about it:
- Ryzen 9 3900 is quite powerful, but Intel is still better for gaming overall, so if games are your primary activity, an Intel CPU is better.
- Buying more than 16 GB memory from Cyberpower is a ripoff. If you want 32 GB, buy the extra separately; a 2x16 GB kit of 3200 Mhz RAM from a quality manufacturer is just over $100 right now.
- The screenshot is cut off, but it looks like your primary drive would be an HDD, much slower than any kind of SSD. With your budget, you can get a large NVMe SSD, the fastest kind, and secondary storage if you want it.
I put together another build for you to consider, so you have something for comparison. This configuration is $1197 before taxes, with free shipping:
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1N2EHW
Notes on this one:
- I kept the 16 GB 3000 MHz RAM because Intel CPUs don't need fast RAM as much as AMDs do, and again, if you want more and/or faster RAM now or later, buy and install it yourself.
- The Nvidia 1660 Super should run all your current games on ultra with lots of room to spare. The build will support a much faster card whenever you're ready for it.
- There's not much point in getting a faster card, since you don't need the extra power right now, and this site's prices are unreasonably high.*
- The primary drive is a 1 TB SSD; I picked the cheapest quality option because the very high quality options are very overpriced.*
- A 3 TB HDD is free today only!!! (i.e. once or twice a week) for anyone who buys a single SSD, so why not. Otherwise, a 2 TB HDD is on sale for $35.
You can of course adjust the components as you see fit, and feel free to ask about any of them or the build as a whole. Once you know what you want, or at least have narrowed it down, it's a lot easier for me to figure out the cheapest way to make that happen.
*This is how Cyberpower makes its money: it offers good-enough components at low prices and then marks up whatever high-end components might tempt people. As an example, a 1 TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus is $150 on most sites right now, but on Cyberpower, it's $213 more than the 1 TB Intel 665p, which is $90.
If you have your heart set on an Evo Plus or something else similarly high end, buy it elsewhere and install it yourself. That would mean reinstalling Windows too, plus all the drivers, but it's not all that complicated.
