Hi EClark1894

Personally I would build own computer there, for example as above mentioned Ryzen 1600AF its great CPU for money, Ryzen 3600 or earlier 2700 or 2700X are good value for money CPU, they're great like in gaming or in rendering there, in rendering they will outperform any CPU which cost 2 times more from Intel

16GB is minimum what I would put to any PC, 8GB is sometimes enough but with 16GB you have bit more headroom although 32GB would be advisable

Get SSD, doesn't matter which one but get one 512GB should be enough for your needs, 1TB doesn't cost too much

For GPU RTX 2060 or any GPU with 8GB would be advisable for ypu if you want to render with GPU, CPU rendering in SuperFly or Cycles is slow or slower than GPU

AMD GPUs are good value for money but sadly their performance in OpenGL is very poor due this I would for now stay away from them

I use their FirePro or Radeon Pro GPUs which have excellent OpenGL performance but they're bit overpriced in my view

Going with refurbished Xeon build, I wouldn't because newer CPU from AMD always will outperform them

I got 5960x whuch is running 4.6Ghz and my CPU is outperformed by 3700 quite easily in rendering and in gaming we are on par

Building own computer its easy and this will take you probably 2-4 hours,just don't be scared to do that alone

There is lots of tutorials how to do it

Regarding the ThreadRipper, earlier 19xx not sure if I would choose, their performance is not best in gaming or in applications which do use only few cores, ThreadRipper 2xxx series as well, they're poorly optimised as well, only newer ThreadRipper would I consider if I would be upgrading

I have used or tried earlier ThreadRipper 1950X and 2990X and 2950X, these CPU I bought for myself but after two or three weeks literally they been sold or been reused in other builds which I have done

Hope this helps

Thanks, Jura