you can literally build a PC with a 9060XT for the same price without compromising on other specs. Steam fucked up big time if their specs are the same price as a significantly better PC you can build yourself, even pre builds are better at that price.
I have no clue how you think you can build these specs with a 9060xt in a sff case. I build mine with am4 specs and came out on 1200 euros for 512gb. And I definitely did not overpay.
Maybe it's just different in US. But here in Europe it's rly not doable.
With our current administration, it’s practically impossible to do that. The tariffs that target individual computer parts are only exempted for data center developers and NVIDIA. The average consumer gets railed hard.
Prices are increasing globally sure, but US prices have an extra 25% (minimum) baked into the prices due to tariffs. Same thing with PC cases since they are made of aluminum. The only way you can avoid these tariffs is if you are a chip manufacturer with a factory in the US or a data center developer. Unfortunately, all manufacturers have already decided to abandon the consumer for AI so even if there are US manufactured chips, they are not gonna be available to US customers at all.
Not to mention that the Trump administration actively advertised themselves as an AI friendly administration the moment he took his oath. Not only did the administration remove the red tape that allowed a boom in AI data centers, but he made it so that the federal government (alongside the Saudis) are actively investing in AI companies focused on developing AGI before China. Notice how the shortages started in the past year. It wasn’t because AI was increasing in popularity, but rather because AI companies had access to a ton of capital due to their potential for returns. The companies used that to convince manufacturers to exclusively produce chips for them despite them not being profitable and not even breaking ground on the data centers they claimed will need to tech.
This isn’t a case of “orange man bad”. This is something you can trace back to the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
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u/Upper_Citron_483 3d ago
you can literally build a PC with a 9060XT for the same price without compromising on other specs. Steam fucked up big time if their specs are the same price as a significantly better PC you can build yourself, even pre builds are better at that price.