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What does long term mean to you? Because that is a whole problem of its own.

Generally, bang for buck, the x3d AMD processors are going to provide likely long term high gaming performance. On that end, if you're really looking long term, you'll likely want to go with a 7xxx chip and ddr5.

A good SSD, pcie4, should be in there for also your game storage. Don't grab the cheapest SSD possible. It makes a huge difference. Motherboard, PSU, cooling will follow your other parts.

Graphics cards are going to be really the budget smasher. I'm personally finding my rtx3070 still plenty good, but again, what you consider long term and which AAA games are on your radar vastly influences your options.

take the time to review the recent round ups by gamer's nexus. Go to their website, as it has the graphs and everything and you don't have to sit through long videos to grab the info.

I'm not on the US market, so I definitely won't give it a parts list, but pcpartpicker is apparently pretty good for this from what I heard. Even just to get guidance and then grab stuff somewhere else for possibly cheaper.

I'm less familiar with 1440p, but you can absolutely get a great 60fps machine for $2k.

Mine is a 1080p 144-240hz rig with a 3060ti and a Ryzen 5600G. I am able to play all of my games on Ultra. It's ITX, so slightly more expensive parts, and I still only spent $1600 in 2022, just as GPUs were dropping in price.

If you wait for sales, especially Christmas ones, you can get a very decent build for your budget.

I wouldn't worry about bottlenecks very much, unless your CPU is super underpowered compared to your GPU. If I was building on AM4, I would get a 5800X3D and a 6800XT or better (since you said 1440p AAA gaming would be nice to have), but any AM4 CPU that supports PCIe4 will likely be sufficient, so you can cut costs there.

ETA: the 6700XT is about equal to the 3060ti, and it's the bare minimum for 1440p gaming, so I'd spend more for a better GPU and cut costs elsewhere.

What's your budget? That more than anything else will shape your build.

I'd recommend an Intel i5-13600K with an 7800XT with 32GB of DDR5 and a PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD. If you're set on using AMD, the Ryzen 5 5600 is still great. Ryzen 7s or i7s are more expensive, but they will form less of a bottleneck in the future. I wouldn't worry about your CPU being a bottleneck unless you get a 4090.

From the other comments I saw your budget is ~$2k

For that budget you can build a PC that will do 1440p 144hz today, no problem, which will be able to give you 60+fps AAA for the next ~4 years. (Especially as frame gen tech like DLSS and FSR get added to games)

1440p 60fps for today's games you can do for half your budget.

For a tower, you need 7 components:

• mobo, ~$100 ($150 probably more realistic)
• CPU, $100 ($150 probably more realistic)
• ram, ~$100
• case, ~$100
• PSU, ~$100
• storage, ~$100 (you can get a Crucial P3 pcie3 2T for less than this right now).
• video card, anywhere from $200 ~ $1400. Pick your poison.

Excluding the video card, that's 6 components for the $600 ~ $700 range. If you go thrifty and watch out for deals you can get sub $100 on good quality PSU, case, and RAM which basically puts you right at $600 for a full PC in which you can put any kind of video card you want in depending on budget (however I would say once you start getting into the rtx4080 or 7900xt and above territory you might want to consider upgrading the CPU as well.). Additional peripherals like a monitor will cut into this remaining video card budget, but I highly recommend a good gsync monitor as it basically turns any 80 FPS gaming into a 120+ fps experience.