Exciting it is to get into an actual gaming computer.
The Surface Pro is a great device, but as you have found not sufficient for gaming. Your bigger hang ups right now are not actually the RAM but more to the Graphics and the storage unit. Graphic being integrated and the storage being more of a large SD card similar to SSD but not as fast.
I used to build my own gaming machines But when you really crunch the numbers on the build you want there was not a huge amount of savings. Unless you can buy the parts at wholesale prices.
The first thing to look for in an actual gaming computer is if it has a dedicated graphics card sometimes referred to as the GPU. A machine built for gaming will almost alwasy have a GPU. You will see types referred to as integrated and descrete. Integrated is what you have on your surface.
The CybertronPC Electrum Desktop you selected is a good solid machine. However to be perfecty honest you would have a slugish time running GTA V on it. The machine has great RAM, but a pretty low end GPU compared to some of the cards AMD is puttint out now
You may want to consider bumping up to the Cybertron PC Rhodium Desktop. The R7 card as compared to the R5 is a bit of a step up.
For the monitor I don't think Best Buy carries anything around $50. Other than the refurbished Acer models.
That would be a decent place to start but you would want to then save up your money for a little higher end model.
A good quality monitor is something that you can use for years. Asus has some really good gaming monitors out there. The $50 monitor, most likely not support the hightest resolution that the graphcis card is capable of providing.
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