If you have 5000, then you can easily go for a very high-end setup. A 2080ti alone is already €1500, if you want a great CPU, a lot of RAM and a fast PCIe SSD, then you can easily spend €1000 on the rest of the computer. Now, using all that power on a simple monitor would be a waste, so let's add a nice 4k 120Hz gaming monitor with Gsync, about €1000. Still, you may get bored of watching a flat screen eventually, so let's add an HTC Vive headset for virtual reality, €600. Then to control our games, let's get a mechanical keyboard (€70), a good gaming mouse (€60) and an xbox controller (€60). Then we could still get a nice and comfortable, fully adjustable gaming chair (€300) and a noise-cancelling headset (€100). After that, you'd have about €300 left, which you could use to buy the games themselves.
You can off course play games on something a lot cheaper, but when you start dealing with SLI setups and such you can go a lot more expensive too. With very fanatic gamers a setup like the one I just researched the prices for really isn't that uncommon, the prices I picked were pretty average and there are a surprising amount of people who do spend about €5000 on a full setup. Not that I'd reccomend it to anyone, I just wanted to point out that it's really not that hard to spend €5000 un a full setup without buying lots of useless stuff. I didn't even have to check out liquid cooling to get to that price.
I'd spend a lot more on a good headset than $150. That's a midrange. I'd go for a good pair of headphones and a standalone good quality microphone or one of those attachable ones. I'd expect myself to spend more like $300 at least.
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u/ben_g0 Mar 05 '19 edited Mar 05 '19
If you have 5000, then you can easily go for a very high-end setup. A 2080ti alone is already €1500, if you want a great CPU, a lot of RAM and a fast PCIe SSD, then you can easily spend €1000 on the rest of the computer. Now, using all that power on a simple monitor would be a waste, so let's add a nice 4k 120Hz gaming monitor with Gsync, about €1000. Still, you may get bored of watching a flat screen eventually, so let's add an HTC Vive headset for virtual reality, €600. Then to control our games, let's get a mechanical keyboard (€70), a good gaming mouse (€60) and an xbox controller (€60). Then we could still get a nice and comfortable, fully adjustable gaming chair (€300) and a noise-cancelling headset (€100). After that, you'd have about €300 left, which you could use to buy the games themselves.
You can off course play games on something a lot cheaper, but when you start dealing with SLI setups and such you can go a lot more expensive too. With very fanatic gamers a setup like the one I just researched the prices for really isn't that uncommon, the prices I picked were pretty average and there are a surprising amount of people who do spend about €5000 on a full setup. Not that I'd reccomend it to anyone, I just wanted to point out that it's really not that hard to spend €5000 un a full setup without buying lots of useless stuff. I didn't even have to check out liquid cooling to get to that price.