New gaming rig for my Nephew

[el_murdoque]

Hi. 

My nephew (14) has come across some cash and will want to purchase a gaming rig now. I thought it would be nice to visit the family, pack in the lil' fella and drive to the city, hit a few stores and buy all the parts, then build a gaming rig together, 

but Covid ... you know. 

Since he's 14 and in the middle of a lockdown, which is bad enough, he has about zero patience to wait until GPU prices deflate a little and CPUs are easier to get. 

So I guess the best way to get him what he wants is a pre-built system with a strong upgrade path. 

I'm looking for some pointers here. I'm based in Germany and the budget is around €1500,-  

What socket/cpu should I get?

What's the best bang for the buck GPU at the moment? 

 

[el_murdoque]

I found two machines within budget:

 

Machine 1: 

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CPU	AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 6x 3600 MHz
Cooling	Deepcool-Kühler
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, 12 GB GDDR6, HDMI, DisplayPort (  )
Mainboard	ASUS PRIME B450M-A II
RAM	16 GB DDR4-RAM, Dual Channel (2x 8 GB), 3200 MHz, Kingston HyperX Fury BLACK Series
1. SSD	500 GB M.2 PCIe SSD Kingston A2000
Case	CSL Black Hawk schwarz
	kein Kabel Modding
PSU	500 Watt CSL, 82 % Effizienz

Machine 2:

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CPU	AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, 12x 3800 MHz
Cooling	BoostBoxx Liquid B120 Watercooling
GPU	GeForce GTX 1650, 4 GB GDDR6, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort
Mainboard	ASUS PRIME B450M-A II
RAM	16 GB DDR4-RAM, Dual Channel (2x 8 GB), 3200 MHz, Kingston HyperX Fury BLACK Series
1. SSD	500 GB M.2 PCIe SSD Kingston A2000
Optical	24x Multiformat DVD-Burner
Cardreader	no Cardreader
Case	CSL Apollon black, RGB
PSU	500 Watt BoostBoxx Power Boost, 82% Effizienz, 80 Plus Bronze zertifiziert

 

The second one obviously has a bottleneck with the 1650, but would that be a strong enough PC to play current games, which will be considerably faster when upgraded to a RTX30XX in the future? 

 

Will the first one serve well for years to come out of the box? 

 

 

[genexis_x]

Link to those prebuilts?

[el_murdoque]

Here are the links: 

 

https://www.csl-computer.com/pc-systeme/gaming-pcs/pc-csl-sprint-5953-ryzen-9.html

 

https://www.csl-computer.com/pc-systeme/gaming-pcs/pc-csl-sprint-5891-ryzen-5.html

 

The website is in German, though.