Budget (including currency): £2000/$2500USD/2330EURO
Country: United Kingdom
Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for:
Virtualization: VirtManager (Mainly), VirtualBox (For University), Boxes (messing around with oses)
One ParrotOS VM running 24/7 that I'll use for SSH and SFTP
I won't run more than 3-4 VMs at a time (Majority of the time only 1 unless dealing with malicious software or live analysis), a combination of Parrot OS, Fedora, Zorin Lite, Windows 10/11 & Non GUIs: Centos Stream and Fedora Server
I run common networking and CS apps like GNS3, Wireshark, IDEs, things you'd find on Parrot OS & Fedora security lab - for Uni, CTFs, etc.
Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc):
I'm running an LG Ultrawide 2560*1080 monitor, don't plan on upgrading to anything higher res perhaps getting a second used one in the future. And I've got top notch peripherals already.
Games I'd like to occasionally run:
Hitman Franchise
Red Dead Redemption 2
GTA IV
CS2
Forza
Euro Truck Simulator 2
City state & City State 2
Rocket League
Mafia 1 & 2
The Forest & sons of the forest
COD World At War
Dont Starve Together
Watch Dogs 1
PUBG
Beamng with some mods (content related, not graphical improvements)
Assetto Corsa
Ride
Some emulation (Red Dead redemption 1, 007 Reloaded, etc)
I'd rather have a better CPU and more ram paired with like a lower or mid-tier GPU, I was thinking about a 1050Ti 4GB that I can buy for £50 or a new gen xx50 GPU, but I'm not sure how that handle things like PUBG, RDR2 etc as I've not been keeping up with the hardware news. Obviously the budget is £2k but the lower the better. I don't need a 24c/48t cpu etc. A well performing 6-8core would suit.
In 2020 I had a R5 3600 / 16GB/ 1050Ti 4GB and it was fine, but had to go as I was travelling a lot - with that being said the smaller the form factor the better as I still move 3 times a year.
Thanks in advance