No that’s probably a bad idea.

But if you were to get a gpu, the most recent and highest end ones are the ones that stay relevant the longest. People could still run shit on titans until nvidia dropped support from the latest driver package.

You could try doing without a gpu, in which case you save a lot of money you would have spent on one but now you have to spend more money on a motherboard/cpu/memory in order to squeeze maximum performance out of the onboard gpu and when one of them starts to be too slow you’re fucked.

If you do buy a gpu then you can reasonably expect only a 5% drop in frame rate when you use a very cheap 6-7 year old ddr4/pcie3/old cpu combo, which aren’t being hit quite as bad with ram pricing.

Gpus have grown significantly in the last two decades from components that often shipped with a half height bracket in case you wanted to stick it in a sff pc to the main geometric limitation of case choice. Use the “length” filter field in the pc part picker website to not end up with an unfortunate situation.

Amd or nvidia? People will say there are serious differences on linux, I’m not seeing it. The nvidia stuff tends to be performant longer but ymmv. The top end current generation amd cards can be had for under a grand, you’ll be lucky to get a 5090 for under two grand.

People will disagree with me, and they’re wrong, but the best gaming experience overall is nvidia. It may not be worth 1k to you, but it’s reality.

If I were feeling antsy and needed to pull the cost effective trigger on some parts I’d look at the area around me or eBay for a used professional workstation targeting pcie3/ddr4 and gpu mounting length and get a 9070. Once it’s up and running, mission accomplished, I’d still sock cash back and keep an eye out for an nvidia deal.