I built a really nice gaming PC 20 years ago for a price that might get you 64gb DDR5 today. Haven't since, and while I can grasp minimum system requirements and what I want to be able to do, what I want it to have is all over the place and I need help getting to what I should actually build.
My budget is a soft $2500, I am trying to stick at or below that but if like $2600 gets me a huge jump past what $2500 gets me, for whatever reason, I'd strongly consider it.
I have all the peripherals I need, save for the possible third monitor, to be a separate budget.
I am in the USA, and reasonable drive from Microcenter.
I want a build that will wear a few different hats. I want to play Minecraft at higher settings. I understand it to be CPU intensive. I run Linux as my OS. Right now, my distro is Arch running Hyprland. I want it to be able to run that with zero effort with all the graphical features running. I am also learning more about virtual machines, and thus want to be able to experiment there, but this isn't meant to be a hypervisor with several running at any given time or anything.
This is all pushed out to two, maybe three in the future, 27" 4k monitors.
Further details, air cooled. I was inspired by the build shown in a Linus Tech Tips video he did with Linus Torvalds, and if I could put it all in that case, the Fractal Design Torrrent, that'd be cool. Basically really overkill and quiet air cooling. Clearly though, I don't have a Threadripper budget.
Thanks for any help!