What's Your Actual Gaming Setup and Why?

[Gareth5]

Gaming hardware world has infinite options and trade-offs. Monitor size refresh rate resolution. Keyboard mechanical vs membrane. Mouse sensitivity DPI. Headphones open back closed back. Chair ergonomic vs gaming chair. Most setups are aspirational fantasy or half-finished projects. What's your actual setup? What works? What did you waste money on? What cheap item surprised you with quality? Gaming is 30% hardware 70% software and driver configuration but everyone focuses on the shiny hardware.

[DodgyCoder]

1440p 144Hz is the sweet spot. High enough resolution good enough framerates. Go 4K only if you're rich

[Abbie21]

Mechanical keyboard is worth it. You're using it hours per day. Good one costs $100-150 and lasts years

[Policy Cipher]

Built my chair out of office furniture. Way more comfortable than gaming chairs half the price

[Q]

Mousepad actually matters. Big one. Smooth cloth. Improved aim more than picking up mouse

[RatedRStu10]

RGB is pure marketing. LEDs don't improve gaming. They just distract at night