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The 2nd one, maybe. It lacks important information about the hard drive. The current bottleneck in PC gaming is data speeds of the HDD. M2 is the way to go but there is incredible variation. Current gen is pcie4 with read/writes of at least 4000, with 6000+ being preferred. I'm not a fan of AMD GPUs but I'm sure they are fine. I had multiple bad experienced with anything AMD in the past and will never buy one again. 16mb of RAM really doesn't cut it for a modern gaming PC either, but thats not a terribly expensive upgrade. Not clearly listing the MB specs is also concerning.
I'd echo the advice of using Partpicker. If you have an IRL contact who build their own or is up to date on what the current value parts are I'd try to pester them about it. All those prebuilds are terrible low-info on their specs which is a red flag to me. You can build an absolutely slamming gaming PC for 1400 np. I'd look for a good deal on a MB/CPU bundle and build from there. Its only slightly more difficult than Lego to put them together. Seating the CPU is the only real "danger" moment of breaking something costly, a bundle will solve for that.
My last build was 3 years ago. GPU: GeForce RTX 2070 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8600K This MB: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WL5MFXL 32gb of DDR4 RAM - Crucial Samsung 970evo pcie m.2 SSD 2tb
The whole thing was about $800. It still crushes every game I've ever thrown at it at high graphics.
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