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For the CPU, I picked the 9950X. It's an amazingly fast CPU with 16 cores. It stays cool with a great non-rgb 360mm AIO. The motherboard has wifi, 5Gb ethernet and extra M.2 & DIMM slots for future upgrades. The build has 64GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD, ultra-fast PCIe 5.0 SSD with dram cache. This disk

Here's my suggested build. For the CPU, I picked the 270k Plus. It's Intel's new cpu and it is great for productivity. It stays cool with a white 360mm RGB AIO cooler. The white motherboard has wifi and extra M.2 & DIMM slots for future upgrades. The build has 32GB of white RGB RAM. Storage is handl

For about $200, MicroCenter will assemble your pc for you, but I recommend you buy the parts now and then assemble the pc with your husband as a couples project for his birthday. I think you’ll both have fun and it will make you both much more comfortable working on the pc later on. I chose this Mic

There's very little context here. For a gaming PC I'd typically recommend putting it towards the GPU. If you have an old GPU, I'd consider selling it and slapping $250 on the proceeds. 16GB RAM suggests it's not particularly high end. An additional $250 is excessive for either RAM or SSD. Thus if no

CPU: For your use cases, you want a multi-core CPU with a high clock speed. Also, from what I’ve read, it’s best to avoid CPUs with both performance and efficiency cores (i.e. Intel CPUs) for audio processing, because sometimes Windows will incorrectly assign a high priority task to one of the lower

Both are very good drives The SN850X has onboard RAM called DRAM (and therefore doesn't use 50-100MB of system RAM to run) & is probably slightly more reliable, but the Crucial T710 is better performance for less money. (It's very, very unlikely that you'll need or even notice that performance boost

PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF 3.9 GHz 20-Core Processor $239.98 @ Amazon CPU Cooler Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler $35.90 @ Amazon Motherboard ASRock B860 Lightning WiFi ATX LGA1851 Motherboard $149.99 @ Amazon Memory Silicon Power XPOWE

At your budget, considering you already have a gpu, you're into "buying stuff just to buy stuff" territory. You could spend more, but it won't get you much, if any, of a fps gain. For the CPU, I picked the 9850X3D. It's the best gaming cpu. It stays cool with a 360mm RGB AIO cooler. I did not find t

For $2k, you can get a B60. For the CPU, I picked the 270K Plus. It is a great all-around new cpu, with lower new pricing from Intel. It stays cool with a 360mm AIO cooler. The motherboard has 5GbE, wifi7 and extra M.2 & DIMM slots for future upgrades. The build has 32GB of RAM and a super-fast 2TB

I would get a different GPU and ssd The AMD 9070 is better for gamers - https://pcpartpicker.com/product/KXkqqs/asrock-challenger-radeon-rx-9070-16-gb-video-card-rx9070-cl-16g $350 is way more than that ssd is worth. You can get a halo-tier pcie 5 drive with dram cache for less, or a very good ssd f