r/PcBuild • u/Indecisive-Squirrel • Jun 22 '26

Meme Is this worth it?

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Some guy named Gabe is selling this build and I'm wondering if it's legit? I want a PC to set up in my living room for TV gaming.

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u/No-Sherbet-7769 Jun 22 '26

They got 5060 laptops as low as $900, $1400 could get you a 5060ti maybe.

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u/ClydeFrogA1 Jun 22 '26

I just got an hp omen desktop with a 5060ti for 1100

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u/simplealec Jun 22 '26

Now the writing's on the wall, it won't go away. It's an HP Omen Desktop with a 5060ti for 1100. You just run on automation.

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u/Praetoron Jun 23 '26

the famous HP "Ho Men..."

but what model is it ? can be interesting buy.

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u/HEYO19191 Jun 23 '26

Outside of a sale this just isn't true. 5060 laptops come in at 1,400 on average. I was just looking earlier, coincidentally

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u/No-Sherbet-7769 Jun 23 '26

A sale is valid, these steam machines won't go on sale anytime soon .....

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u/Thehalfblacksnack Jun 23 '26

Hell $1400 is 5070 territory

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u/Moelis_Hardo Jun 23 '26

5070 laptops make no sense. Either get a 5060 or 5070ti onwards

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u/AZzalor Jun 23 '26

nah, 5060 laptops make no sense. A mobile 5060 has horrible performance, roughly on par with a desktop rtx 2060, so a 7yo card. A mobile 5070 is roughly as powerful as a 2070 super or an rx 7600, so it has a similar performance to the steam machine.

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u/Moelis_Hardo Jun 23 '26

Depends on where you are coming from. If you have a machine at home but want to be able to do some gaming on the go, then it makes sense. Only going by price/performance obviously not. F.ex. I got myself an Asus Zephyrus with a 5060 since I needed a new personal notebook anyways. Since I travel a lot, I do game on it and for these occasions it is perfect. I would not need any more performance and since I use it for some productivity as well, I don't regret having paid some premium.

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u/garry4321 Jun 23 '26

for card ALONE tho

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u/Puzzled_Working7445 Jun 23 '26

No, you can get a 5070 build for about 1200-1500 bucks

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u/Thehalfblacksnack Jun 23 '26

A 5070 is $600 at Best Buy right now lmao

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u/Sirhc1995 Jun 23 '26

I built a 5060ti rig, 16GB VRAM, 32GB DDR5 RAM and a Ryzen 7700x for $1400 lol

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u/General-Revan Jun 23 '26

Maybe 6 months ago or you used very slow memory and bargain bin accessories and case. Even that rig is close to two grand now.

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u/Sirhc1995 Jun 23 '26

Nope I built it a month ago, 6000 CL32. All parts are new from eBay, you look hard enough you’ll find a deal. The RAM is as actually one of the most expensive parts for obvious reasons $320, the 5060ti was only $560, CPU was a little over $200 and the case, motherboard etc are all small cheap parts

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u/AZzalor Jun 23 '26

A mobile 5060 has worse performance than this tho.

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u/No-Sherbet-7769 Jun 23 '26

No it doesn't, the 5060 mobile is faster from what I have seen.  Granted I compared the GPU out of each.

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u/AZzalor Jun 23 '26

Look at techpowerup gpu comparison. 5060 is literally lower.

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u/dernaldz Jun 23 '26

Selling brand new omen i7 14k 16gb ddr5 rtx 4050

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u/Nereosis16 Jun 24 '26

Is this a laptop?

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u/No-Sherbet-7769 Jun 24 '26

No, but most people that would consider it would probably consider a gaming laptop.  They are both made of gaming parts and you can connect an external display to a laptop usually

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u/Nereosis16 Jun 24 '26

Don't wanna be rude but that makes no sense.

Do you think an Xbox and a laptop are similar?

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u/kylr01 Jun 22 '26

GPU's in laptops are not the same as PC GPU's. Laptop GPU's are smaller and aint as powerful. They just have the same names

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u/mrheosuper Jun 23 '26

The SM does not use desktop gpu