@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:
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:
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.
@puzzlezaddict I'm thinking about going to Micro center in Dallas TX to get them to custom build from them. I believe in-store would be cheaper, cyberpower is so overpriced. I'm thinking about taking the specs from this build(with some modifications) and showing it to the techs at the store. I want to see if they can match or get close to these parts for cheaper. I do want something as powerful as the build I showed you but I'm unsure about what intel processor to get, and I did switch to an SSD after I gave you the specs on that one. I don't mind more expensive things but instore I think would be cheaper than anything I've seen online. Other than that I think maybe I'm close to what I'm wanting PC wise, now there the case about a monitor, I'm still lost on that one!
I also dont know what video card to get as well. im wanting just as powerful but not amd
@puzzlezaddict Could I get you to go here and make a build thats just as powerful as ive show but intel instead of amd.
https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/custom-pc-builder.aspx
@AnimeNerd123 I left out the case, because a) that's a personal decision and b) it's better to let the people building the PC figure out if all your components fit. I also didn't choose a keyboard or mouse, since you might have those already. Otherwise, it's pretty much the same build as on the Cyberpower site, except with 32 GB RAM and without the free extra HDD. The total is $1,329 before taxes.
You could upgrade from an i7-10700k to an i9-10900 for an extra $70.
I don't think Cyberpower overpriced overall, in fact, just the opposite—it think its prices are great if you take advantage of the best offers and don't try to upgrade to super high-end parts. I think those high-end parts are overpriced. But like I said, you could get around that, for example by buying your own RAM kit and selling whatever Cyberpower sends you, thereby saving probably $100 overall.
The reason I didn't put a higher-end GPU in this build or the Cyberpower one is because you don't need it for your current list of games, so it would be a waste of money. Graphics cards are improving at a startling rate right now, so much so that the new $700 card from Nvidia about 10% faster than the $1,100 card released two years ago. It's a fantastic card, don't get me wrong, but someone who had $1,100 to drop on a GPU would still have been better served waiting two years to buy the newer cheaper card, that is if they didn't have a use for the $1,100 card in the interim.
You're kind of in the same place: you could spend a lot more money on a much faster card you might not need for two years, or you could wait and eventually either save money or get a much faster card than you'd be able to buy now, or both. And that doesn't even cover the newer technologies that may surface—Raytracing was only introduced two years ago, and even the fastest cards released before then don't handle it so well. The newer ones were built to do it.
This is of course your decision, and your money. But above a 1660 (regular, Super, or ti), you won't see any real performance benefit in Sims 4, or the other games you listed, unless you plan on playing at a high refresh rate or on a QHD or 4k monitor, or possibly both.
On the subject of monitors, figure out what size you want, then the resolution becomes easier to decide, and the other details can be managed from there.
