I think with your budget you’d want to upgrade either your CPU or your GPU, but not both, and should first identify the bottleneck for each of your use cases. At a guess, I’d say GPU for starfield and possibly CPU for minecraft especially if you’re using mods, but it’s worth spending time measuring that and picking the direction you want to go. You can try smaller upgrades for each, but my sense is that it wouldn’t sum up to as worthwhile upgrade as focusing on one.

An nvme drive would be nice, but I wouldn’t prioritize it above cpu/gpu. I think 16GB of memory is fine for what you’re wanting, and there’s nothing wrong with that motherboard.

Used 2080ti’s sell within your budget (and for less there are 2080 and 2080 supers on the market), and that would be a huge upgrade on the GPU side. Not a recommendation, just something to consider.

If you’re in the US, check out webstaurantstore for those items. Way better pricing than Amazon, so you can have a whole stack of every size mixing bowl, sheet pans, glassware, etc, for what you’d pay on Amazon for one.

That narrow band of survivalists who are not unnaturally interested in fire

I think he amassed a fortune legitimizing workplace abuse.

Yeah, have had a similar experience. I find the more specific or niche a question is, the better google is at finding relevant pages. DDG is perfectly fine the rest of the time, though, so I keep it as the default.