Give Bazzite a look for your grandsons OS. It's a fantastic gaming distro and can basically turn a PC into a console.

MikeB4:

 

500TB storage

 

I really hope you mean 500 GB or else you're probably looking at $50k 😁

Behodar:

 

MikeB4:

 

500TB storage

 

 

I really hope you mean 500 GB or else you're probably looking at $50k 😁

 

If only it was that cheap.

Behodar:

 

 

 

I really hope you mean 500 GB or else you're probably looking at $50k 😁

 

oops you are right 

I use PBtech, Computer Lounge and Ascent depending on a combination of price and range. Generally they've all been good handling any return requests.

I do order large drives from Amazon.com due to the massive price difference, but for most key components like motherboards and CPUs I'd rather use a local retailer.

richms:

 

Behodar:

 

I really hope you mean 500 GB or else you're probably looking at $50k 😁

 

 

If only it was that cheap.

 

It's actually not as bad as I thought it was. It seems an array of 42 drives at 12 TB each will get you to about 500 TB and set you back $30-35k. Yes, they're HDD, not SSD, but I'm going for capacity rather than speed.

But I digress :)

If you use linux there is less RAM overhead from windows so 16GB is still viable for gaming systems. Windows 11 is also getting a xbox ‘mode’ to lower OS memory usage. Please be aware that nvidia has a performance penalty at the moment on linux that is getting fixed very soon, it otherwise has far better features than AMD for gaming on windows but of course costs more.

Also please be aware that more modern games especially with raytracing are heavier on CPU/memory performance, if you get something like a 5600G from past gen that particular model has half the L3 cache as a 5600x and a lot less than a 5700x3d.

Godmode and Notbadtech have good deals

I'd have to say just use PBTech...

• best price
• always have stock
• largest range
• good warranty if you return

Your hardest decision is what to build as everyone knows RAM has gone up :( 

I've decided to sell my gaming PC, its all assembled though :) PM if interested.