Comment by Brybry

There's nothing wrong with 1080p gaming though.

You can get a $200 to $300 microcenter cpu+motherboard+16GB DDR5 bundle [1], then $300-$400 GPU, and you'll be able to play nearly every game on the market just fine at 1080p.

I'm sure there are pre-builts using stockpiled RAM that are similar $1000 price range.

And if you buy used you can do even better. $300-400 might get you a 5060 or a 9060XT right now [2][3] but if you go used you can get something like a 3080 instead.

I play games at 1080p with a 1660 Ti and, outside of some newer UE5 games that heavily rely on frame gen for performance (Monster Hunter Wilds performance was too poor to play), everything I've thrown at it has been playable and some games even 100+ FPS.

[1] https://www.microcenter.com/site/content/bundle-and-save.asp...

[2] https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=594,593&sort...

[3] https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#c=596&sort=pri...