For context, I currently have what I assume was a pretty low/mid prebuildt PC even for the year 2020, in which it was purchased: Amazon.com: Skytech Shiva Gaming PC Desktop - AMD Ryzen 5 2600, NVIDIA RTX 2060, 16GB DDR4, 500G SSD, RGB Fans : Electronics. I just wanted to play games and didn't want to bother with anything at the time.
I'm hoping to build my next gaming PC in the US with a budget of roughly $2,000 give or take $200 but not much more. I'm planning on keeping my mouse, keyboard, and monitor for now.
This is my first build and I'm not super knowledgeable regarding ideal specs for my price range. This is essentially just PC Part Picker's 'enthusiast build guide', featured on their site, except I swapped out the MSI SHADOW 3X OC GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card for a Asus TUF GAMING OC GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB Video Card per a recommendation and the case for aesthetic reasons. I don't absolutely need to go with 5070 ti, so if you have a better rec, feel free.
Here's the part picker link for my build: Buy From Amazon - PCPartPicker
As this was mostly from a default build guide, I'm wondering what, if anything, I can swap out. If a cheaper part is equivalent for less money or better for only slightly more or the same amount of money, I'm interested.
I'm probably dropping windows but I'm still in the middle of researching that and outside the scope of this subreddit.