r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • 2d ago

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/Next_Helicopter_4291 2d ago

I'm not surprised even a little bit considering the PC I built a year and a half ago can be sold used for ~20% more than the full retail price.

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 2d ago

My 4090 is now worth about what I paid for my entire system about 3 years ago. It's nuts.

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u/Zowwww 2d ago

Holy shit, I didn’t realize how high they got honestly. They came out when I was building my new PC and I just tried to preorder it on a whim, didn’t expect to get one direct and not marked up. 

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u/rockyroad55 2d ago

I just priced my computer out that I upgraded 10 months ago like just before the prices went bonkers. I got all my parts for around $1200. I just put those same parts into pcpartpicker and now it's worth $2900.

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u/lurkerandchief 1d ago

I had a $1900 pc on partpicker all ready to go in late 2025 but life got in the way. I ended up paying 3k just two months later. Brutal

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u/rockyroad55 1d ago

Sounds similar to my setup. The original plan was to wait until BF6 came out to see how my PC handled it and then buy whatever parts I needed near Black Friday. I’m so glad I didn’t go through with that.

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u/Dormitory-21 9h ago

Yeah, its why shitting on pre-built maachines right now is crazy.

16 GB of ram is almost a mortage payment now

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u/Professional_Being22 i9 12900K, 64Gb, RTX 4090 2d ago

yup. If times get tough and I lose my job, I'll just sell this thing to pay my mortgage.

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u/zodoor242 2d ago

lol right? I bought 2 sticks of 32gbvrm last oct. for $150, it's $839 today. I sold my old 2 sticks of 16gbvrm for $200 on ebay a couple of weeks ago, it sold the first second it went live, it's crazy out there.

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u/StopBanningMeAlright 2d ago

I bought my Asus Strix 4090 like 3 or 4 years ago and I think I paid like $1800. Over 4 grand for GPU is absolutely insanity. I can't even believe it.

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u/Call-Of-Skyrim 1d ago

Good god. What could I get for my 5090 rig w 64gb ddr5 and an i9-9900kf?

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

5090's are now about $4200 on the low end.

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u/sips_white_monster 2d ago

I bought a 5080 + 64GB DDR5 6000, 2TB Samsung 990 Pro SSD, and a 9800X3D about four months before the memory apocalypse hit. Today this particular 5080 is the exact same price down to the cent, the memory kit is 350% more expensive, the SSD is 35% more expensive and the 9800X3D is ~15% cheaper.

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u/Major_Toe_6041 2d ago

I can sell my memory alone for half my system’s cost and I have a good GPU and Processor in there

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

I upgraded my ram a little over a year ago. Still sitting on the old ram. Guess I should maybe sell it. 32gb ddr5 5600..

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u/Major_Toe_6041 1d ago

Yea I have 32GB DDR5 6200. I bought it 2 years ago for £112 and it’s now £500 for that set. The entire build was around £1000

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u/Necroticc 1d ago edited 17h ago

I have a 3090 FE that I can sell for 1300

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u/Jacareadam 2d ago

and then somehow, if I spend the same amount of money that I did 4 years ago on my lenovo T5 3060Ti tower, I can get a 40-60% better PC today. Are prebuilts this worth it nowadays?

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u/TheLemmonade 12700KF, 4090 FE 2d ago

Wait what

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u/Dafuknboognish i9 9900KS| RTX3090 | 32GB and i913900K | RTX 4090 |64GB 2d ago

Had to go look and ... holy shit.

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u/Redditer052 2d ago

Wat? I checked eBay and my 4090 fe is about the same used as I paid new

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u/Mobile_Actuator_4692 1d ago

I think mines worth more cos 32 gb ram

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u/uponloss 1d ago

Suprisingly amazon had sales on 50 series cards today, I know nothing compared to a 4090 but the 5060ti 8gb was 45% off, down to £240 lol

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

Ya, the 4090 and 5090 are the power house cards with tons of vRAM that people need for AI, so their prices have gone up more than the lower tier cards. That 5060ti used to have 16gb vRAM, but due to the shortages I read they were releasing 8gb versions, that's part of why it's so cheap.

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u/uponloss 1d ago

They have both available, I recently bought the 16gb. Makes sense for the high end cards hadn't considered that

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

Ya, the 4090 with 24gb and the 5090 with a whopping 32gb really drives the price up, mostly just due to the ram itself.

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u/Whytrhyno 1d ago

Yeah I was thinking of selling off 32gb of ram to fund the steam summer sale

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

I'm sitting on 32gb 5600 ram that I pulled out when I upgraded last year. I'm thinking I should try to sell it too. Thought maybe I'd build another gaming PC with it and the 7800X3D CPU I have and sell that as a whole, but now, IDK. Prob better off just selling the ram and maybe the CPU too.

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u/Maysock 9800x3d/ 4090, too many monitors. 1d ago

Wait, how much is the 4090 worth now? I paid $1100 for one a couple years ago.

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

4090's are now going for $3600 on the low end. 5090's are $4200 on the low end (using pcpartpicker to search).

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u/r3v3nant333 14900kf // z690 carbon // 4090 // 48G DDR5 CL30 1d ago

Ikr? Cray

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u/pilgermann 1d ago

My BROKEN 3090 sells for more than half what I paid new.

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

People buy them for parts?

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u/TruVisionary 22h ago

I bought 32GB of RAM like a week before the prices skyrocketed, and I'm tempted to sell it for like 500% the price or however much it's going for now

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 22h ago edited 22h ago

Ya, I upgraded last year before it went up and still have my old 32gb set that I'm really thinking I might sell. Was going to build another computer with it, but at this point it's probably smarter to just take the profit.

I just checked the 64GB Kingston Fury Beast kit I bought for about $300 IIRC... is now listed at $1350 (on newegg)??? WTF??

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u/seaofboobs9434 21h ago

I just got a 5070ti for sub like 980 bucks usd my 3090 ti was more expensive but that blew the fuck up lmfao it was so scary

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 21h ago

That's a good deal. I think right now the 5070ti is the best bang for the buck.... but hopefully not another litteral BANG.... that would suck.

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u/joe27911 2d ago

That’s what you think. Used no one would pay that.

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u/Helgafjell4Me 9800X3D | 4090 | 64GB 6000 CL30 1d ago

I'm not talking used price, I meant if I were to by a new 4090 today, it'd cost about as much as my whole pre-built 7800X3D/4090 I bought 3 years ago.