Budget: $1500-$2300 Roughly
More specific use (what games, what programs): Mostly Path of Exile and the upcoming Path of Exile 2 but also often play other games ranging from CS:GO, God of War, Last Epoch, Horizon Zero Dawn, Star Wars Last Jedi, Hogwarts Legacy, Plague Tale Requim etc.
Planned time until purchase: Now - 3 months. If there is a reason to wait I can, not in a super rush.
Do you need an Operating System?: No, Currently have Win10 but can upgrade to 11 with new PC
Do you have any specific preferred components?: Tend to prefer Intel over AMD CPU . And NVIDIA over AMD cards. Don't have a ton of experience but my amd cards have always failed and nvidia ones have never failed over the last 20 years for me.
Do you need a sound or wireless card?: NO
Do you want stock cooling or do you plan on overclocking?: No Overclocking
Do you need a monitor? mouse? keyboard?: NOPE
Zip code/location? (Shipping costs): USA

Prefer 1080P gaming. Don't really care about 1440 or 4k.
Also not interested in streaming.
Mostly use desktop for gaming, emailing, word docs and excel.
/Edit - Don't care for RGB or anything fancy looking.
/Edit 2 - Don't need a ton of Storage. SSD 500gb is plenty for my uses already.

Last built my current pc in 2014
Upgrade power supply in 2017 to this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IKDETOC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 when I got a gtx 1060 - maybe can still use the power supply?

Thanks in advance for any advice

This post was edited by Caulder10 on Jul 31 2023 06:52pm

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/w2QKHG

16gb variant 4060ti for some future proofing & it's overkill for 1080p
Good value long term in the event you upgrade to 1440p/4k one day
Black/Silver no RGB

You can wait for Black Friday/Cyber Monday and probably save some extra $
Something like this would operate rather cool & blast 1080p gaming

e/ the case c/w argb fans, you can always just sub those out for some nice noctuas or be silent pros
case is also kind of big, xpg has some nice micro atx cases for around $79

This post was edited by MadMardi on Aug 1 2023 08:02am

Looks decent, and about 1/2 the price.
Most likely my budget is more than is needed for real solid 1080 gaming.
If anyone is familiar with PoE it doesn't run well with a lot of setups and no one really knows why. Its been solid for me for years but the recent update they did really seems to have hit my system hard and I am concerned about PoE2 next summer coming out even being even more taxing on the system so I am thinking over powered is the way to go. Since I have the budget are there more premium components and upgrades that I can do that will help "future proof" for the next couple years at least?

Current setup is:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40 GHz
16gb Gskill Ripjaw DDR3-1600 (2x8gb)
ASRock Z77 Extreme6
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
500 GB Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series (SATA (SSD))
Corsair H100i cpu cooler
Don't recall what fans but I got 4 aftermarket quality fans to swap with the two stock fans that came with case
Corsair Vengeance C70 ATX Mid Tower Case

Built it all back in 2014, replaced the graphics card and mobo in 2017 with the listed ones as well as the above mentioned power supply.

It runs basically everything easily enough except for starting to have issues with PoE. Figure my CPU is likely bottlenecking me more than GPU but i don't know.

4060 ti is terrible value, 6800 XT>
That nVME drive also has no DRAM, wouldn't recommend that either

I'd go with a 5800X3D if you're playing PoE, it's the best CPU for games with optimization issues.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/y37fcp/ryzen_7_5800x3d_in_poe/

https://www.gpucheck.com/compare/amd-radeon-rx-6800-xt-vs-nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti/intel-core-i9-10900k-vs-amd-ryzen-9-5950x/

Here's a cheaper and better SSD because it has a 1GB cache

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098WL46RS?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

Also if you're playing at 1080 are you gonna be running 144hz or higher? Modern cards are not even necessary for 1080/60, you could get by with something pretty cheap if you're not pushing a high refresh rate or resolution. I use a 6800 XT at 4k/144 hz so that would probably be way overkill for your purposes.

This post was edited by TatersaladAF on Aug 3 2023 03:53pm