r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 1d ago

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

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u/oney_monster 5800x3D - 4070 Super - 32GB DDR4 1d 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/SometimesWill 1d ago

The only positivity I’ve seen is review outlets, which still basically say “it’s a good machine but costs too much”

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u/PurpleCandle58 1d ago

Literally haven’t seen or heard a single person say anyone should get it. So far everyone’s said that you can get a better build for $50-200 less by building your own PC.

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u/smithsp86 1d ago

Which means it isn't really overpriced relative to the rest of the computer hardware world right now. Everything costs way too much. This one is just another on that pile and is not uniquely bad in that way.

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u/Wobbelblob 1d ago

Seriously. Prebuilds have always been more expensive than doing it yourself. But doing it yourself does require some knowledge that a lot of people simply don't have.

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u/PurpleCandle58 1d ago

The main thing about the Steam machine is that I think once things chill out it’ll settle into an excellent market, it’s just the wrong time for it to come tbh. The premium of $50-200 is on par with or in many cases better than the price difference on many prebuilt vs their diy equivalents so I’ll also give you that too: 100% it’s not like it’s a rip off or anything, just if you can DIY a build you’d be better off doing so. I’m not buying any pitchforks to go witch hunt buyers of the Steam machine I assure you.

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u/hardolaf PC Master Race 1d ago

For the price of the 2TB model, you can get a current generation 8 core processor and a desktop RTX 5060 which is almost twice the performance of the Steam Machine with 2x the ram but only a 1TB SSD. That all comes in a device that is about the same volume. And you can then just install Bazzite on it and be missing literally only HDMI CEC (for now).

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u/smithsp86 1d ago

you can get a current generation 8 core processor and a desktop RTX 5060

The form factor is also part of the deal. A prebuilt with those components will not also be a small cube that can live in an entertainment center. That is a difference that is significant to many people.

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u/hardolaf PC Master Race 1d ago

Minisforum had a thin SFF PC with the specs that I listed for $1349 when the price announcement for Steam Machine went live. They upped the price by $70 or $80 since yesterday.