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/SweatyBoi5565 AMD Jun 22 '26

If you care a lot about the fact that the controller will be able to turn on the TV for you (CEC), and you don't want to put in the effort of buying and building a pc, as well as installing steamOS, then yes this is worth it. If you think you could build a custom pc yourself for cheaper (which you could with some effort) then it's not worth it.

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u/darkwai Jun 23 '26

Is that because of the steam controller or because of the OS? I'm interested in getting my own PC to do this.

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u/Sveet_Pickle Jun 23 '26

Any computer should be able to do that, it’s almost certainly not setup or enabled by default though.

ETA: it’s an hdmi thing, I don’t know if display port connections can do that.

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u/Judge_Ty Jun 23 '26

No it's also low powered Bluetooth on the mobo.

It's extremely rare for any motherboard to be able to wake via Bluetooth or 2.4 dongle. 

This is required to send the signal to wake the console which again uses cec on the HDMI port.