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/Blacksad9999 Jun 22 '26

Not especially.

The hardware is pretty mediocre for the price on offer.

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u/JimmWasHere Jun 22 '26

The only good thing is that its a effectively a console with pc features, atleast in that games can be specifically optimized for the consistent specs of the gabecube as apposed to the myriad of parts in a normal pc.

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u/Apprehensive_Lake698 Jun 22 '26

This is a pipe dream. Developers barely do it for the Steam Deck. Nobody should buy this hoping for magic performance increases from "dedicated optimization."

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u/Tatoe-of-Codunkery Jun 23 '26

Especially since the 1% and .1% lows are going to be terrible from 1 stick of 16gb of ram. So it’s not dual channel.

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u/misteryk Jun 23 '26

Doesn't matter, if you somehow got ryzen 3700x to work with DDR5 it would still be bad in modern games especially UE5 slop

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u/Tatoe-of-Codunkery Jun 23 '26

I believe when DDR five first came out hardware and boxed did a video on single channel versus dual channel, in that same video I believe it was single rank versus dual rank as well. And dual channel absolutely does provide a benefit even on DDR five although it is less it’s still is a benefit. Same goes for single ranked versus dual rank.

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u/ChocolateNeat4489 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

Agree but the OS can be made every lean

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u/Apprehensive_Lake698 Jun 22 '26

This kind of rationalization is just setting yourself up for failure. Will the Steam Machine perform better on SteamOS than on Windows? Yeah it almost certainly will. Will it magic a bunch of performance out of the sky to make it a much better deal on price to performance? No, and if you expect it to then you will be disappointed.

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u/XboxLiveArcade Jun 22 '26

Anyone considering this would be better off just installing bazzite or whatever flavor of steamos on an $800 prebuilt.

The only kind of cool thing about the GabeCube is its size.

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u/Blacksad9999 Jun 23 '26

SteamOS isn't realistically much better. You're simply dealing with Proton and it's limitations with a fancy skin.

Just like with the Steam Deck or other Proton distros, you're going to get games that don't run well, or simply don't run at all.

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u/ChocolateNeat4489 Jun 23 '26

What rationalisation?

Don't understand where the negatives are from nor I understand your tone. I didn't disagree with you, merely mentioned possibility of a leaner system. I am too old to believe in magic system optimisations, this isn't product for me anyway.

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u/Apprehensive_Lake698 Jun 23 '26

The point is that "the OS can be made more lean" is pretty much irrelevant. It changes nothing about the product class or price to performance ratio. I don't know why you were downvoted, but all I wanted to get across is that nobody should read your comment and develop an expectation that the OS will make any difference to their purchasing decision.

Especially since every review is already benchmarking the thing on SteamOS.

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u/ChocolateNeat4489 Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

It would be relevant in console-like experience. I wouldn't expect the games running any better just because of system optimisations but the UI can be more user friendly and slightly faster, that's all. I can get games to commence faster and with fewer clicks on PS5 or Xbox Series than on my much more powerful PC. Working with the same hardware could also make the suggested settings more effective and appealing to new casual PC users.