If anyone could give me any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
My 16-year-old is wanting a gaming PC. I have no clue where to start or what brand would be best. We live in the U.S and I would like to stay around $800 or less if possible.
We would prefer a desktop over a laptop.
If you just want to buy a complete system, go to Amazon and search for RTX 4060 desktop. The 4060 is a graphics card. It's what sets gaming PCs apart from regular PCs.
At a minimum, I would also look for:
16 GB RAM
1 TB NVMe
Any AMD or Intel CPU matched with those should do.
This should get you a good starting PC that will play any game out there. If you want to post a link to something you've picked out and let us look at it, feel free to do so.
A PC like this will run best in 1080p resolution, so I wouldn't bother looking at higher resolution monitors. 1080p is fine for any monitor 27 inches or smaller.
There is at least a small chance that thanks to Black Friday you won't pay too much more for a prebuilt than you would for putting together parts. Honestly, if you don't know anything about PCs, and don't plan to ever build another one, then I'd just buy a prebuilt. Here's a link to a decent one in your price range ($699.99):
If I'm being completely honest, I like the GPU and CPU better in this one than in the parts list above. The PSU may be worse, and you are getting less RAM, but overall this is a good system and a solid deal, and it will run games slightly better. It will also run AI significantly better if your son is interested in artificial intelligence because Nvidia GPUs have a different type of core that AI uses, and most AI software is designed to use these CUDA cores. Without them, the majority of programs default to the CPU, which is miserable.
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