I don't know what currency you're using but including peripherals it was still >1k aud iirc. in the early 2000s when I did a lot of building for friends an nvidea like 800 or something (they'd just rolled physx in a generation or 2 prior and games started getting cool) was like 300 aud, you could get a pretty nice core 2 duo for like 120 aud or one of the newish quad cores for like 300 (and play crisis! man that game smashed your CPU) ram was like 30 aud to be a sensible amount all the way from 32 bit to 64 bit systems. MB was ~100 aud, PSU was like 200 aud for a good one but would easily last multiple decades so it gets kinda amortised across builds. Even if a cap blew you could just replace it (omg when mobos started using solid state caps repairs got so much leas impossible <3 science nerds).

Monitors were like 200-1500 aud, keyboards 100-400, speakers were expensive before the glory of fossi amps and Edifier often like 200-400 if you wanted 2.1 sound. A mic added another 50.

Prices went down a bit, especially GPUs and spinning rust but I don't know if it was ever that cheap unless you discount all peripherals. I'd usually tell people to beg, borrow, or steal some second hand peripherals and upgrade slowly. Same as hhds (used to cost a mint)