Can you help me reduce the budget of this build i intend to buy?
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jYtd7R
This is how I'd do it. First thing is to ditch most of your requests about needing a strong VRM motherboard, Nvidia GPU, and PCIe Gen 4 as all of those are pretty expensive and realistically not necessary. Dropping down to a 5600X is probably the first thing you need, since for 1080p 144Hz it's fine enough and ~$50 cheaper than a 5700X. Ditching the aftermarket cooler and just using the stock cooler is another thing to help (the stock cooler isn't great, but it's good enough to last you a few months until you can upgrade). The RAM can be swapped to a kit not from Corsair, and since 32GB is almost necessary nowadays, you might as well get that since the price isn't really much different (2x16GB is maybe $10 more, and the 2x16GB kit from TeamGroup is still cheaper than that Corsair kit anyway). For the SSD, just getting a 1-2TB drive makes much more sense than a 500GB drive and a 1TB HDD (I'd personally argue that HDDs only make sense in capacities above 4TB nowadays), especially since some modern games are starting to require an SSD in order to run (Starfield is the first to come to mind, though I know there's a couple others as well). You can get a slightly cheaper PSU without sacrificing quality. The RX 6700 XT is quite a bit faster than the RTX 4060 while being slightly cheaper, so unless you absolutely need CUDA or something along those lines (even CUDA support can usually be fixed with ZLUDA, so even that isn't a reason to go Nvidia if you only use it once in a while), this card makes more sense.
If you're just playing games, this system would actually be slightly faster than the one you linked.
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