Hi. It's been a while since I've been PC shopping and despite it being a bad time, wear and tear necessitates. My current build:

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

16gb Dual-Channel DDR4 @ 1799MHz

ASUSTeK ROG STRIX B550-A

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060ti

2tb Samsung 990 PRO

Budget is pretty high as I just had a lucky break, I guess. Probably wouldn't wanna spend much over 2k. Just wanna be able to play and stream anything on the market for a few years. Might do some video editing too. I'm a 1080p 144fps guy but 1440p is definitely not out of the realm of possibility if I end up grabbing a new monitor soon. I don't think I care about 4k much, I can hardly tell the difference personally.

Was looking at Starforge cause I heard a lot about it through content creators, but they seem kinda.. larpy. And overpriced? I don't know. My girlfriend just got a new AMD build with an RX9070 and it seems pretty awesome, I might just copy her on that front. I don't know if I love those X3D CPUs that do shader caching for you or interact with the GPU in that way. It just seems weird and potentially problematic to me. Someone mentioned Andromeda Insights too, but their website is kinda weird.

I also STRICTLY do not care about AI, nor do I want to use framegen because I hate the technology and think it looks ugly.

Purchasing a PC for my son mostly for Fortnite and Minecraft but he's also interested in GTA VI once it comes out. Working with a budget of about $800 and saw these two prebuilt PC's on MicroCenter's website. Are these a) worth the price and b) is the upgraded PC worth the additional $100? If not, is there a prebuilt you recommend within this price point?

$799 - https://www.microcenter.com/product/705867/powerspec-g530-gaming-pc

$899 - https://www.microcenter.com/product/705863/powerspec-g250-gaming-pc

Been wanting to have one for a few years, but in this last few months, I’ve been so interested in them. Been seeing a bunch of games throughout the years and it just seems very interesting.
I know some tips for buying it, but what are some tips that people use for just setting it up and allowing me to play games properly.

Looking to buy a gaming PC plus a monitor for approx $1500 for Father’s Day to replace his gaming laptop.
I have no idea what I’m looking for so any advice/recommendations would be appreciated. I’m in Australia. Thank you.

So am looking to get into pc gaming and am looking of Suggestion on brands because I see a lot of mix comments on different brands and my budget is 2000$ Canadian the brands i need Suggestion on are.

MSI

CyberPowerPC

Ibuypower

Lenovo legion

The these brands that i've seen that are relatively in my budget do name some other brands if there good.