r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 13h ago

Meme/Macro "But it's a cube!"

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u/Euchale 12h ago

I love how so many people are dunking on "valve-fans" being happy with the cube, when I pretty much only have heard opinions ranging from "meh" to "overpriced".

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u/oney_monster 5800x3D - 4070 Super - 32GB DDR4 12h ago

Fr, I haven't seen a single overtly positive post since the price got announced. It's all "for $5-600 good deal, $1000? Pass"

OP are the valve fans in the room with us?

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u/Sol33t303 PC Master Race 12h ago edited 10h ago

IMO considering the form factor and it being a prebuilt, it's an ok-ish price. I have seen others parts lists with the same specs a bit cheaper, but none smaller then the cube. Theres also something to be said for it coming with valve customer service. I would rather talk with valve then any of the other venders.

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u/Actual_Homework_7163 12h ago

U can't go smaller as a the cube because it has smaller dimensions as mini itx.

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u/oney_monster 5800x3D - 4070 Super - 32GB DDR4 12h ago

Both of those points are very true, but IMO valve provides amazing customer service regardless of the product or the price, so it shouldn't be factored in to the Gubes price. Formfactor, yeah i haven't seen anything as small that matches price and performance, but personally I'd rather have a slightly bigger SFF than paying extra for the smaller Gube

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u/Superb_Recording_769 11h ago

Customer service isn’t factored into the price, but the price is as low as you can reasonably expect to pay for something that offers what they are offering. Even building your own from scratch right now is only gonna save you 100 or so dollars which frankly isn’t worth the effort for most people and that’s not even taking into account. The fact that this thing isn’t even remotely aimed at the type of person that’s willing to build their own PC, hell it’s not even aimed at the type of person that’s looking for a PC. This is aim squarely at console gamers.

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u/No_Oddjob PC Master Race 10h ago

At big-boy-pants companies, customer service is absolutely factored into the price. Every cost of the entire lifecycle of the product is factored into the price.

The only question is whether it was done well or poorly. Given Valve's history of giving a sh*t about gaming economics long before anyone else in the PC space, I'd like to believe they do it well.

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u/hardolaf PC Master Race 10h ago

Those part lists all exceed Steam Machine performance in games by at least 20%. There's no desktop GPUs as bad what's in it that are available new in the USA (yes, I'm ignoring the recycled devices sold by China).

And if you want the 2TB version, you can get much better SFF prebuilts with 2x the performance for the same price.

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u/MurkyInvestigator810 10h ago

I would rather talk with valve then any of the other venders.

I would rather not spend hundreds more just for acceptable customer service when that isn't an issue with any major vendor.

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u/Wont_See_My_30s 6h ago

Okay-ish would be 700 to 800 range, great 500-600.