I just got back into Old School RuneScape for the first time since 2008ish, and I'm pretty sure playing on my laptop with its smaller screen is causing my headaches. I've been meaning to get a desktop for a while now, and this is as good of a time as any. My main requirements are a decent sized screen (shouldn't be a problem with a desktop I don't think) and the ability to install Windows 10 on it (ie there are drivers that will allow the hardware to work on Windows 10). My budget is $1000, but that's a soft limit.
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At this point your processor doesn't really matter as long as it came out in the last five or six years, you need at least 16 GB of RAM (go for 32 if you want to have more than 3-4 modern browser tabs open and do anything else), things like network hardware and sound are just fine with whatever's built into the motherboard. You're going to spend the bulk of the money on a GPU. If you buy a Geforce 3090 (around $800 on eBay last time I checked) then you'll never need to buy another GPU for as long as PCI-E exists as an interface because games are never, ever going to tax it except for absolute bleeding edge 4K stuff that, if you're playing Runescape as a main game, won't ever matter to you.