After many years on console, he bought a Steam Deck and used it like a PC. I shared my Steam library with him so he could play my games. After some time, though, the Steam Deck wasn’t enough, so we wanted to build a 9800X3D PC for him. Unfortunately, he missed the train—prices went up—so we started looking for a second-hand PC instead.
He ended up buying a PC with a monitor for 700 euros:
Monitor: Gigabyte Aorus KD25F 240Hz
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Xtreme
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Aorus Xtreme 11G
CPU: Intel Core i9-9900KS
RAM: Gigabyte DDR4 32GB 3200MHz
HDD: WD 3.5” 6TB SATA Black
SSD: Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen4 2TB M.2
PSU: Corsair RM850x White
AIO Cooler: Gigabyte Aorus 360mm Liquid Cooler
Case: NZXT H710i White
Now he can play Fortnite at 350–400 FPS (Performance Mode / High) and many other games without stuttering.
I hope that one day prices go down so he can build a newer PC
PS: Please don’t mind the cables and the desktop. It was quite late, and I’ll visit tomorrow to clean things up and make sure the external cables look good