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good performance/price PC components nowdays?

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Someone told me to post this here instead.

I got a notice from my drivers update of the graphics card that it won't receive any more support, and it suddenly started failing since.
My PC is around 9 years old and these are my current specs:

OS: Windows 10 Education version 22H2
GPU: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (Gigabyte)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 2.81 GHz
RAM: 16.0 GB (2 Corsair 8gb each 1064MHZ)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. B360M DS3H (U3E1)
Hard drive: 1788GB KINGSTON SA400S371920G (SATA-2 (SSD))

The OS is something I got from school time ago(it's official), I got the notice to upgrade to windows 11, but it also said I can't upgrade due some chip missing on the motherboard. I'm thinking of possibly upgrading the motherboard, maybe the processor and graphics card, and maybe keeping my RAM/SSD (or changing them if that'd be better).

Anyone here can give me some decent upgrade settings, with some good price-performance relation (like not paying double just to have 10% better performance than some other GPU), which could last maybe some other 10 years if possible, I really love this PC, but maybe it needs an upgrade.

I heard the prices of components went up lately (due the AI bubble or something), and I would like some advice/guidance to what would be something decent and not way too expensive in general.

Some extra info: If possible not AMD stuff (I got some previous issues with those and don't trust them anymore).