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I always just upgrade my PC piecemeal. The biggest component for you to upgrade first would be your GPU. Even a RTX3060 or a RX6600 would be an improvement over what you have there.
If you went with the AMD option and installed bazzite/linux that would be pretty close to the specs for the upcoming steam machine. You would probably benefit from some of the optimizations Valve will inevitably do for their hardware over the next couple years... That is if you don't need Windows for anything.
On your CPU you have a ton of options on the AM4 platform and 16GB of ram is still very usable.
Or just see what the actual steam machine does on pricing. But I'm no longer as optimistic about that given what Valve just did with pricing on the steam deck.
Even without the price bs rn, I wouldn't have expected the Steam Machine to be more than a sidegrade.
The steam machine will be about as powerful as your PS5. It's unfortunate with pricing being where it is.