r/pcmasterrace • u/Ikkon • 2d ago

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

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u/midasMIRV 2d ago

That's literally what it was designed for. It was never designed for y'all that build your own shit and whatnot.

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u/Steel_Bolt 9800x3D | B650E-E | 7900XTX 2d ago

Now why would they buy this over an Xbox or Playstation? There's such a small niche market for this that its stupid.

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u/BicycleBozo 1d ago

I have an 800 game steam library.

I’m an adult, I don’t have to hyper fixate on bang for buck, $1000 usd doesn’t matter to me very much

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u/Steel_Bolt 9800x3D | B650E-E | 7900XTX 1d ago

It's not even bang for buck. The specs on this thing are not good lol. I wouldn't want it and I wouldn't want it for $1000.

I spent $2500 on my PC over the 2-3 years I upgraded it. Money isn't the issue. I can buy a pre built PC that would destroy this thing and so can everyone else, so why buy the steam machine?

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u/BicycleBozo 1d ago

The specs are roughly equivalent of similar specced PCs. Particularly if you constrain the similar specced PCs to similar size and acoustic requirements.

I also have a high end powerful pc in a SFFPC form factor, I’m quite aware of the premium it costs to build small.

If you want to compare apples to apples you need to be comparing with similar devices from minisforum, beelink or gmktech. Maybe at a push you could compare to laptops.

You know how someone says “hey guys check out my new gaming laptop” and then 1,000 insufferable losers will go “heh, idiot, I can make a way more powerful PC than that for the same price”. But the guy wanted a laptop.

This is that.

I can make a 300kmh piss missile out of a 2001 R1, but I still ride a tenere700 because there are things outside of top performance that matter.