First timer needing help building a PC

Just to clarify, is $2K the budget for the build, monitors, keyboards, etc., Windows and the fee for building the PC?

Not to shamelessly plug our own products here, but have you considered using a pre-built? Our PowerSpec systems for example, have offerings that can meet your requirements assuming you don't mind doing some of the leg work for setting up the multi-boot on the drive. The G714 for example, has a 2TB SSD that you can partition for dual booting both Windows and Linux, and the hardware itself supports VM's and bare metal hypervisors as configured. https://www.microcenter.com/product/663464/powerspec-g714-gaming-pc

The CPU and GPU are solid enough for the games you've mentioned, and future support won't be an issue since we don't use any proprietary parts. If you are looking for 4-7 years of support, I'd recommend the G714 over our G443 since AMD has promised several years of AM5 platform support. Intel typically covers 2-3 years before moving on to a new socket.

Would definitely give you the most bang for your buck since you save on assembly labor and you get the added warranty and remote support for a year if you find yourself needing it.

If you do want to go the custom route, keep in mind that AutoCAD is primarily single threaded and favors clock speeds, while VMs like to have additional cores for parallelization across threads, so finding a balance between core count and frequency will be key here. Luckily both Intel and AMD are offering a lot of cores at a high frequency these days, so it's much easier to find something that will work. Gaming wise, most of what we offer is going to be overkill for the games you've listed. Most of those e-sports style arena shooters/battle royale's are relatively relaxed on hardware requirements. Overwatch ran flawlessly on my old GTX 1070 at 1440p, anything newer would be overkill.