New PC Build for son

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Hi

Its been a few years since I have last built a PC and needing to do the upgrade from Win 10 to 11 it feels like a good time to equip my son with a decent enough PC for his uses. He does use the PC for gaming but not top end games, roblox, Ancient Warfare 3 Payday2. Generally games that are at least a couple of years old before he starts playing them.

The overall budget is around £1100 although it is going to be split between the two of us with him buying the graphics card (budget £300) and I will pick up the rest (budget £800).

I am looking for a bit of advice to see if I have missed anything or picked components that are weak, underpowered or over priced. Pretty confused by the myriad of options available. At this point I have the following:

1 x Fractal Design Pop XL Silent Black Solid Full Tower Case - Black £95
1 x MSI B650 Gaming Plus WIFI (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard £150
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Six Core 5.30GHz £190
1 x be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 850W ATX 3.0 £110
1 x Corsair Vengeance 32GB (2X16GB) DDR5 £120
1 x Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCI-e 4.0 £125
1 x Arctic Freezer 36 A-RGB 120m Black CPU Cooler £30

1 x Asus GeForce RTX 4060 Dual OC £300
or
1 x Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 XT Gaming OC £300
 
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions, I have certainly saved a few pounds (or allocated it to other parts of the build as is likely). I have spoken to my son and he is happy to wait on the next gen of cards being released before purchasing a new graphics card. We will reuse his old 6500XT in the meantime before he splashes the cash.

I have updated my list to

1 x Fractal Design Pop XL Silent Tempered Glass Full Tower Case £95 - he wants black, no or very limited colours is something that he has requested.
1 x Asus TUF Gaming 850W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply £90
1 x Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX (Socket AM5) DDR5 ATX Motherboard £135
1 x AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Six Core 5.30GHz (Socket AM5) Processor £189
1 x Arctic Freezer 36 A-RGB 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm £30
1 x Corsair Vengeance 32GB EXPO (2X16GB) DDR5 PC5-48000C30 6000MHz Dual Channel £90
1 x WD Blue SN580 2TB SSD NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Solid State Drive £99

Total: £728

That frees up a little more to be spent on a new graphics card of around £400 - £450

Thanks again.
 
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