my friend is looking to buy a roughly 2.2k $ budget, gaming pc everything (monitor etc.) included so because I live in a different country prices and market isn't the same, he won't be looking into secondhand market either.
Here's what I'm thinking so far; buying per part would cost more than buying an OEM case so I'd be getting an OEM pc with no GPU preferably and slap in a PSU if needed and a GPU, ram and storage can be figured out later. Most affordable high-end GPUs seems to be 4070-4080 and 5070, I think I could cut from the CPU so I was wondering how much >>>>older/worse<<<< I can go with the other parts without major bottleneck.
I really don't think best 14th gen cpu is really needed for plain gaming, matter fact I'm thinking anything high-end from the last 5-6 years will be good.
Should I go with this plan? is my thinking correct or should I increase the budget for other parts too? cus I'm just planning to get a beefy gpu and something that can keep up.