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Not in this economy. Ram alone will require a second mortgage.
Buy a used Optiplex.
Gets you an acceptable case, mobo, CPU, RAM, and probably SSD for about $200. Add a used 3050/3060/4060 GPU and an upgraded PSU.
It’s not gonna knock your socks off, but it gets you going without over-spending and you can carry some of that forward when you upgrade later.
May I suggest an AMD card instead? Even on the second market, they're typically better bang-for-buck
I've been extremely satisfied both with the 9070XT that replaced my old RTX 3080, and the Arc A310 in my media server. Both have worked flawlessly, and with Optiscaler, native DLSS/FSR/XeSS support doesn't really matter anymore, you can just use whatever regardless of your hardware, and add FG if you want to anything.