Now is not a great time to buy a high end pc.
Good graphics cards have been hard to find, and past that, they have been bid up on price way past MSRP.
I don't see that changing any time soon.
Graphics is the most important component for gaming.
One rule of thumb used to be to budget 2x the cost of the processor for the graphics card.
With today's pricing, that does not apply so well.
On the cpu side, ryzen 5000 series has a new architecture that improves performance per clock by about 20%
Unfortunately, again, the 5000 series processors are out of stock and command more than MSRP.
On the intel side, there is hope. The 11th gen rocket lake processors are due soon; perhaps march.
The Z50- motherboards are already selling.
Rocket lake also is supposedly some 20% faster, clock for clock.
The really good news is that they are initially arriving on the well developed 14nm process and prices are supposed to be able to undercut ryzen 500 as well as being available to buy.
I would wait to see what that brings unless you are urgent to build.
You may want to read this article on Photoshop recommended configurations:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/recomm...-Adobe-Photoshop-139/Hardware-Recommendations
On the list from friend, I have a few comments.
You would do much better with a similarly priced I5-10600K processor for both gaming and photoshop.
Here is a gaming review which included 9600K comparison:
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-core-i5-10600k-cpu-review/5
32 gb ram is good, but I think 3600 speed would not cost much more.
Any new build should include a ssd for windows.
A 2tb ssd is what I would look for. Price for Intel or Samung will be in the $200 range.
Any ssd will be 40x faster in random I/O and 4-10x faster sequentially.
On the case. $475 seems waay out of line.
I recently bought a cm HAF XB case:
https://www.newegg.com/black-cooler-master-haf-series-atx-desktop/p/N82E16811119265
It is the easiest case ever to work with.
You lift off the top and all of the motherboard is open to you.
It has provision for dvd drives as well as two hot swap bays.
The front supplied 120mm fans will do a decent job of cooling and they can be replaced with 140mm if you ever need more.
CX650m is OK, but I would look for a quality unit with a 10 year warranty like the Seasonic focus 650
https://www.newegg.com/seasonic-focus-plus-650-gold-ssr-650fx-650w/p/N82E16817151186
If, in the future, you may want a much stronger graphics card, I would pay $20 more for the 750w version.
Slight overprovisioning is ok, the psu will consume only what power is demanded of it, regardless of the max capability.
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