As promised, here is my take on a modern mid range gaming build for 2024. The bad news is that it is outside of your budget of $1100 as it stands; the good news is that there are a few things to cut from it. Of course, cutting those now will require you to buy later.
I, unfortunately, could not fit a pair of decent headphones in there. If your birthday is coming up soon, perhaps you could ask your uncle or friends to scramble for a decent pair. The thing is, I’m going exclusively Bluetooth headphones these days, the sound is crystal clear, they do last longer, you can use them both at home with the computer and on the go, but it does cost quite a bit more. My kind of headphones are in the $250-$300 camp, are very nice, but a pure luxury product and I don’t know enough about the sub-$80 market to know what to recommend. But without further ado, here is my take:
PCPartPicker Part List
CPU - Ryzen 7700 with its 8 cores is a nice baseline. AMD CPUs are coming at a slight premium these days. That said, I would be more comfortable with a 7900 or 7950X, but prices do not allow right now.
Cooler - The ~$35 Peerless Assassin is complete overkill for the Ryzen 7700 and could be skipped since the 7700 comes with a decent stock cooler on it’s own. But hey, more RGB for the masses right?
Motherboard - This should have no problem to even power a Ryzen 7950X, but there are better boards out there that offers a bit more functionality. Biggest drawback here is no PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, instead falling back to PCIe 4.0.
Memory - RGB, 6000 MT/s, 10 ns first word latency… What is not to like about it? Price could be shaved down ~$10 if you go with the other RAM.
Video Card - Already explained my reasoning for the 7600 XT, 3060 is interchangeable. Video RAM is only more and more important, so if you can buy as much of it as possible.
Case - Slightly more expensive, you can save another $10-$15 by going with the case choice above, but I would say this is a slight step up. You do have to add your own fans to it, though.
Case Fans - You might not need these, at least not right away, so that is another $45 you could shave off. The CPU and the GPU combined should only pull around 300-400W at peak, and that kind of dissipation the single fan in the back of the case should be able to handle.
Power Supply - Found a $10 cheaper PSU that is about as good as the one you linked.
Screen - I upgraded you to a decent budget 1440p screen. As you can see, it is ~$70 more. Up to you which one you choose in the end. I do think you will grow out of 1080p within a couple of years though, and then it is nice knowing a better screen already exist.
So, adding it all together you could remove or downgrade screen ($70), cooler ($35) and fans ($40) for a total reduction of $150, which is pretty much right on the money where you wanted it to be - minus headphones.
The 12600KF is a better deal at the moment, but the 7700 build does have better future prospects, so you are paying extra now for a nicer upgrade path later. It all depends on if you want to keep your PC 3 years or so and then sell it and get a new one, or if you want to just upgrade parts as you go, pay a little bit more now, another $400 for a GPU and $300 for a CPU but a total lifespan of 6 years. Both are viable choices.
As a final note feel free to mix and match for you very own perfect blend.
