Help with build, please

About 5-6 years is likely to be the lifespan of a gaming rig in your budget. It you're talking about custom liquid cooling, that's not in the budget, and I don't recommend it anyway. It's not maintenance friendly. CPU cooling these days is by liquid, but it's a completely sealed, maintenance-free, all-in-one heatsink, pump and radiator. They almost never leak, but they can fail eventually, like other parts.

It's important we know the screen resolution and refresh speed of the monitors for best choices. You may or may not be aware that the current crop of video cards is selling way beyond MSRP for a lot of reasons that made them in very short supply. They are a scant 5 months or so from being replaced by a whole new generation of cards expected to outperform the current cards by a wide margin, and may well come in at more reasonable prices. One reason this is so is that the current gen was pounced upon by crypto miners, but Nvidia for one has deliberately made their gaming cards a poor choice for mining while they developed an alternative line.

I'd like to know the monitor specs, because in this climate it's not wise to pay exorbitantly for any more GPU than you need. It would also be helpful if your son is going to migrate over any storage he currently uses. This is quite easy to DIY, there are plenty of YouTubes that show how. Please come back with the info, and we can make some solid recommendations.    

In the meantime, you can look at a couple of recent builds and comments we've had for others in that same price range.

Edited by Cretae - 24 Apr 2022 at 3:21am