About to buy a gaming pc, any advice/suggestions. I want something that can handle vr and will be able to play gta6 when it comes out

Build your own king it's easy

Don't get an AMD GPU if you ever want to stream video or run AI models locally, they forgot to implement that shit properly

e: also if you can let go of the i9 thing, AM5 is a brand new socket and 7800x3d is a godlike cpu for gaming. You should be able to keep the motherboard for a few years if you get a good one. Here is an neurodivergentally detailed feature comparison of AM5 boards https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NQHkDEcgDPm34Mns3C93K6SJoBnua-x9O-y_6hv8sPs/edit?pli=1#gid=513674149

if you're just gaming the i9 will have little affect on performance compared to the i7. it's really for productivity work where you need a ton of threads. 13700k is a beast

for the graphics card, a 4070ti is a good price point new. anything higher and you start burning a lot more money for little gain. You can also try to find a 3080 which is about equivalent

then just buy parts on sale once you get those two. pick out a case you like (probably at least a normal sized one for first build), a z790 DDR5 board around $200, any 32gb ram kit works if you're not overclocking, any 2-3 fan AIO liquid cooler around $120-180, 850+ watt power supply with at least gold rating, grab some fans based on what support your case has, and you're set

and don't listen to the amd shills, they can piss and shit their pants all they want but it's still a meme

Gtx 4060 get better gpu in a few years

Live in the walls of an AWS data center and plug a shitty Chromebook you bought on Craigslist directly into an Nvidia GPU cluster

I just got a 4090 bc I'm not poor

Ignore the annoying nerds and build one on Cyberpower because it's EZ and you're not a poor.

I'm thinking about building one as well. But I've been getting neurodivergent about what CPU I should get.

I'm not really up on the release timelines of Intel and AMD and whether I should just get one now or wait for a new iteration to come out.

Need to research when the last micro architectures came out for each and when it's likely the next will. I'm too lazy to though.

I9 is a meme processor. An i5 will perform just as well for gaming since games don't use hyperthreading. In reality, a 10 year old i5 won't perform much worse than a brand new i7 since games aren't processor intensive.

Also, future proofing is a meme. You'd be better off buying a low end system every 3 years than a high end one at double the price every 6 years.

Get an i5-13600KF processor and a 4070 GPU if you want to spend money. Or get a used 2080 (performance is slightly better than a 4060) now and a used 4080 2 years from now for the same price - less when you sell the used 2080.

Build it yourself. Spend $150-220 on the motherboard. $100 on a noctua cpu cooler. $120-220 on a quality platinum or better power supply. $150 on a Fractal case without a window. Get a hynix p41 SSD in whatever capacity, with a $10 top of the line Thermaltake heatsink. Get 32 or 64gb of ram.

Then if you ever want to upgrade, everything but the CPU and motherboard are easy to swap.

Nvidia 1080 is all you need

Nvidia is king of the high end gpus and a total joke mid range and lower. With a high budget like 3k you are probably best served by a high end Nvidia card, even if the value is poor. AMD's best card that isn't a ripoff is the 6950xt, so if you need something faster, Nvidia is the better pick.

Check out G*mers Nexus on YouTube, he has reviewed many prebuilt brands (most suck) and has great case reviews. Hardware Unboxed on YouTube has great cpu and gpu benchmarks and does huge GPU and CPU comparisons for big titles.

Linux doesn't have good VR support, so you definitely want Windows 10/11.

Buy a good power supply from a good brand, seasonic, evga, etc.

Get an m.2 nvme drive, they are cheap AF and good for future proofing. I suggest a tlc drive with dram, I'm partial to SK Hynix myself.

For cpu it depends, AMD and Intel constantly trade blows these days, one isn't better than the other atm. However do keep in mind Intel boards only support 2 generations at most, and AMD keeps boards supported for 4 generations. So if you plan to upgrade just your CPU (if you do a lot of CPU intensive tasks) in a couple years, go AMD.