Nice 2 grand a grand same thing most people would still to get out a loan to hav tht lol
I hope you don't mind an analysis from an expert. Because I think the configuration you responded to is a bad example.
You probably already subtracted the monitor since you weren't saying 1,2 grand. There's also a mouse and a keyboard there, which you could get for a mere $15. It's not like you actually need actual "gamer input devices". Maybe you got some of that hardware at home, so I won't include it in my calculation.
That concludes the unnecessary parts when comparing the configuration to what a PS4 would include. Though, I'd definitely go for another 8 gigs of RAM, but that's just me. 8 gigs might be sufficient, but I never tested that myself.
When gaming in 4K60, your CPU doesn't matter as much, since the GPU will bottleneck the rest of the rig.
Personally, I'd just hunt down a cheap pre-assembled PC with an i5 from two or three generations ago (the improvements are pretty small nowadays) and probably 8 or 16 gigs of RAM and no dedicated GPU (but with a PCIe-Slot to install one) for less than 350 bucks (maybe under 250 if bought used). That saves me the case, mainboard, RAM, HDD (though you might want to get an extra SSD) and CPU. That leaves you with a PSU for not more than 50 bucks (since the one installed probably won't have any cables for a dedicated GPU) and the GPU itself. The result won't run noticably slower in games, even though the CPU is not top notch. Just believe me on this one.
This would bring it down to around $740. If you don't believe in the Tensor cores and RT cores of the 2060S being able to perform well with ray-tracing turned on, just scrap it and get a good old GTX 1080 for around $300, which would bring you down to $600 ($500 or less in a best case scenario with the pre-assembled rest of the machine), which would give you a bit of money to invest into the aforementioned SSD.
Please excuse my fellow PC gamers for not knowing their hardware enough to refrain from buying unnecessarily expensive parts (apart from the GPU the basics will get you just as far as "premium products").
I built solid gaming machines for some of my friends before and I was always able to avoid high prices. It just takes some dedication.
And to those other PC gamers. Please look up "the Potato Masher". This one was a good example of a cheap PC build back when the PS4 was new. It's relevant to this day.
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