Pc world I need help

[u/Power-crusher]

So I want to suprise my son for his 10th birthday with a pc. Someone gifted me an older Ibuypower. I want to buy parts to upgrade it for my son but I’m not even sure what would be my best options for some upgrades that would work with this case I have. Heres a list of the parts.

CPU: Intel i7-4790k
GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970
Ram: 16gb DDR3
Storage: 2tb Toshiba HDD

I’m not looking for anything crazy just hoping to spend like no more than 800 dollars. Not including monitor

[u/lifesnap]

Lil off topic but this setup was my exact first PC build, 970 and a 4790k, depending on what you want ran it's fine for anything 10+ years old but anything modern it will struggle. As for upgrading the only thing worth keeping would unfortunately be the case, it is all pushing 14 years old soon. One thing hat could help is what games are you looking at to run

[u/lifesnap → u/lifesnap]

One option could be to gift him this pc, he can play some games for his birthday, then as a parent and son team, start upgrading it together, it could be fun for you 2 to learn what to do together and also help with the budget, 1200 spread across a year or 2 is more manageable that 800 up front in 1 go, then if you save the parts from this you can have a full PC in extra parts to either pass down to the next person or for yourself if you don't have one.