7 Year Gaming Setup Progression… ($400 - $20k)

November 24 2017 I bought my first ever personal gaming console a PS4 slim I got in a Black Friday sale this was the start to an ongoing seven year journey of gaming and of course upgrading my setup my first ever gaming setup looked like this a cheap Standard TV sitting on top of a little entertainment center with my PS4 to the right the only chair I had was a super uncomfortable thing I found in our storage room honestly I'm not sure it was even meant to be saddened nonetheless I got super into Call of Duty World War II until I played my first game of fortnite I was enjoying fortnite so much that by April of 2018 I started making YouTube videos on it and my setup got its first ever upgrades I put my TV up on a wall mounting my GoPro to use as a face cam and of course added my first RGB light to the setup this was all I needed for a while but like every other fortnite player back in season six and seven I thought I had what it took to go pro so I decided to set things up and get a proper gaming Monitor and this really got my setup roll with a real 27 inch curved gaming monitor I had to have an actual desk to place it but being 16 with no money I had to improvise and once again I went into our storage room and found a plastic folding table that I put a bed sheet over the top to try to make it look nicer my bulky chair didn't fit behind the desk so I ended up using a metal fooling chair which was even more uncomfortable leading to me asking for a proper gaming chair that Christmas when 2019 started we finally had some resemblance of a gaming setup I still had my PS4 with the monitor the crappy laptop on the folding desk and now a chair with a couple extra additions to my controller like Control Freaks and paddles the entire setup was around 500 but later that year everything changed I got a really good deal on this PC someone was selling on Facebook Marketplace and for just 450 I was officially a PC Gamer the specs on this PC were ryzen 5 2600 CPU a GTX 1060 graphics card and 16 gigabytes of RAM not crazy but way better than a PS4 slim and it allowed me to step up my content creation with the PC the guy gave me a Mouse a keyboard and a mouse pad at this time I decided to make a couple more upgrades like getting a LogiTech C920 for a webcam and getting the Logitech G Pro X headset for better audio and better mic quality everything was going great but I was still using a folding table as my desk and the worst part was that when we had guests over we'd have to take the table and use it for seating meaning like once a month all my setup would just be on the floor until I could get my desk back to fix this I bought a cheap ldesk from Amazon and moved my setup back to this corner around this time my YouTube videos weren't doing good but I had started working an actual job to make money and when I hit 1 000 subscribers towards the start of 2020 I celebrated by upgrading some more parts of my setup like I got a Blue Yeti mic and some other smaller stuff like a modern amount of stream deck speakers a light those types of things the setup at this point was around one thousand dollars total and this is when I had some YouTube videos do decent I started to make a couple hundred dollars per month and I was getting enough attention that I got my first ever free product sent to me a GT Racing chair I continued making a few hundred dollars per month from YouTube all the way through 2020. so by the end of the year I was at 15 000 subscribers and I figured that it'd be a good investment to upgrade my PC so that's exactly what I did I spent two thousand dollars and got my PC from a company that builds it custom then ships it out to you so you don't have to worry about building it yourself this had a 30 70 in i7 10 700 and 32 gigabytes of RAM a pretty big upgrade from my previous one the day that I received this PC my setup changed in a massive way because I completely moved this location my brother moved out for college years ago and our basement was completely unused so I took it over and moved everything from my bedroom down to the basement this was a crazy time for my setup because Christmas had also just passed so now I was running dual 27 inch monitors I also tried this other tiny monitor thing that I only used for like a day but I upgraded some of my peripherals as well like a 60 mechanical keyboard and a proper gaming mouse I also got some RGB flood lights because of course we always need more RGB at the game gaming setup at this time I called my setup five thousand dollars but realistically it was probably closer to being three thousand dollars throughout 2021 I stayed on my YouTube grind continuing to make videos and making 300 to 800 per month on the side while I did online college and work and my setup stayed pretty much the same until around September when my videos started doing even better at this time I had a couple months in a row where I made around a thousand dollars per month just from my videos so I thought I'd invest some of that money back into the setup by buying a really good camera setup I spent about a thousand dollars upgrading from a little webcam to an actual camera the Sony zve E10 with a 16 millimeter lens a cam link a new light and some mounts for them that turned out to be a solid investment Because by the end of 2021 I crossed 35 000 subscribers and had a single month where I made over three thousand dollars just from YouTube in January of 2022 I finally got rid of my old unstable L desk and got sent this desk that I still use today when I got this desk I once again moved my entire setup over to a different part of the basement so I could have more room behind me and around this time the only other change in my setup is I got sent a few extra controllers from various companies 2022 was going really well on YouTube and I decided I wouldn't be going back to my job so I was now at my setup making videos way more often I got a couple things to make myself more comfortable like an ergonomic Mouse and some more RGB lights my setup now with the camera stuff and all the additions was sitting somewhere near six thousand dollars then in April of 2022 I wanted to make some console videos but my PS4 slim that started this whole thing off was unfortunately not cutting it so I bought a PS5 and had a few more controllers by June I decided this blue yeti mic quality didn't really make sense when I had such a nice camera setup and I was essentially doing YouTube as a full-time job by this point so I completely revamped my audio and got the trusty Shure sm7b a wave XLR in the rode PSA One Mount spending about 7 700 to upgrade a few months later in July I didn't think two monitors was cutting it anymore for Content creation there's a lot going on you have to game see your recording software see your video outline and even while editing there's so much space that you need so I upgraded my four-year-old main gaming monitor the second piece to my setup that I ever bought and got this 27 inch Acer one then by October about 10 months of doing YouTube full time I was so sick of sitting in an uncomfortable chair every day that I got a real ergonomic chair the steel case leap V2 which is so expensive but it's worth it when you sit and make videos all of it that decision to essentially go full time in YouTube paid off by the end of 2022 when I hit 100 000 subscribers with the year now turning into 2023 I thought my PC I got in 2020 was a little outdated and I decided to make an investment on a very good PC so just a couple months ago I bought and built a four thousand dollar PC that has a 40 90 and I9 3900k 64 4 gigabytes of ddr5 RAM 4 terabytes of SSD space and eight terabytes of hard drive space investing in my setup has always seemed to work out and that entire Journey has led to where my setup is today in June of 2023. the core of my setup is my new pc my triple monitors my Sony camera setup my sure mic setup Wireless Logitech peripherals my ewin desk and my steel case chair this core setup is around eight thousand dollars but I have so much more that I consider a wider part of my setup like my consoles controllers and all these accessories that make it whole I've gotten to add and try some really cool things like a 240 hertz gaming projector augmented reality gaming glasses and more I think the key to a good setup is to make sure it's comfortable and functional sure my setup is definitely not as aesthetically pleasing as some but my entire goal has always been to just make it comfortable and functional I think there's still a ton of room for growth at my setup so we'll see where the future years take us I've provided links to everything at my setup down in the description if you want to check anything out so thank you so much for watching

Channel: Carter2k

Views: 739,763

Keywords: setup transformation, gaming setup transformation, setup progression, gaming setup progression, carter2k

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Length: 8min 4sec (484 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 05 2023