I added some bits to my gaming setup and finally tidied it a bit to take some photos of it.
First a bit of background. I live about 80km from where I work, so we have a house that I stay at every second night so I only make the drive once a day. I've put my gaming setup there as its free of distractions, no kids etc. I can usually get 2hrs of gaming in every second night. Sad I know, but thats my life (for now). I also work overseas, so right now, its not really my home anyway, so I didn't want to spend too much on furniture.
Anyways initially I bought my PC ready for VR, but with the 'excessively high launch price' of the Vive and the Rift, I put that purchase on hold. Still is at the present time, considering my ridiculous backlog. The room here is easily 4m x 4m which would be great for roomscale.
On the right hand side I have my PC (now 2 years old) with these specs
i5-4690k
16gb Ram
256gb SSD
GTX 1070 (I had a 970)
1TB & 3TB hard drive
Corsair 350D Window Case
Elgato HD - I'm planning on doing some streams as soon as I finish some other projects in my life
Acer XB270HU - the 27" 1440p, 144hz IPS G-Sync one
On the left I have
an OG PS4
a PS Vita TV
a Logitech G27 for Dirt Rally, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Assetto Corsa etc.
a 40" 1080p Hisense TV.
The tables, chairs and TV were from work.
Some mistakes I made
I spent way too much on the monitor (about $800) - at first I thought I would be able to future proof my system a bit with a 1440p monitor, but honestly that just drives the cost up of everything else. 1080p is more than sufficient for me. Games look just fine on the PS4 at 1080p. That said 1440p is great and anything above 60 is silky. Playing Dirt Rally at 1440p 100fps is incredible. But if I just got a 1080p 144hz G-sync, I would have saved $400 there and probably wouldn't have bought the GTX 1070 easily saving me $800 total.
The microphone and phantom power there SUCKS. Even the cheap boom arm sucks. The volume is only reasonable when the gain is turned right up in the settings. I don't know if its because its a cheap brand, I think its the Neewer BM800 or something like that. They were about $20 each. I know people are going to say of course you get what you pay for, but the youtube reviews were genuinely good when tested so yeah pretty disappointed. I'll just get a decent mic and probably the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 or something like that for a preamp, cause its just pissing me off. I need to save up so, its something to do for next year.
The Corsair 350D case is a also a bit of a mistake. It only has 2 slots for a 3.5" hard disk, and it would have been nice to have more slots. My next move is really to swap out the 1TB for a bigger hard drive. Games are just huge these days.
I also got new Logitech speakers like this -
The ones in the photo are the old ones where the subwoofer pretty much died on me and had that terrible demagnitised buzzing sound. These were pretty much all I could afford for the time being, I'm not an audiophile so they're ok, not great, but just ok.