Hi,
I'm building my son's first pc and I have a budget of about 1000,-. I honestly haven't been keeping up with any of the developments after I build my system 3 years ago aside from GPU's so I'm hoping for some input from you.
I luckily have spare/unused parts so the 1000,- doesn't need to cover this:
- Monitor (he'll get my current 27" 1440p 240hz Legion)
- I have 2 NVME 1tb GEN4 drives from current PC that I'll use for his.
- My Nvidia 2080ti
- Case (I want to make it somewhat portable and decided to go with the Fractal Terra). This does mean I need a smaller size motherboard.
- I have a keyboard and mouse for him, not the best but perfectly fine ones.
He'll be using it for school, some gaming, learning how to code and designing things to 3D print. I really want to introduce him to what is possible with PC's because he just turned 9 and basically only knows iPads and his schools fairly limited Chromebooks. At his age I remember already breaking my dad's PC by trying things, and I want to get him up to speed, breaking his own PC.
I'm basically looking for a good system that if we decide to upgrade his GPU in a few years time, wont be severely held back by a slower CPU or limited ram, but at the same time I don't think a 16 core CPU is needed. So preferably one of this generations AMD or Intel CPU's.
Hope someone can push me in the right direction. Let me know if you need more information.