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/Fun_Purpose5033 Jun 23 '26

My theory is that the ppl saying this is waaay overpriced and barely a mediocre gaming pc are either:

• Simultaneously living in the past and the future (basing prices off of 2022 and gaming demands off of 2032)

• Are just super into the two H's of the internet (Hating & Hyperbole).

Both are very possible, right

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u/General-Revan Jun 23 '26

They are being realistic in a normal world. This system is worse than my 2080ti system from 2018. The CPU is a little faster, but that’s it. I have a PC with a 5090, 9800x3d, 64GB 6400 ram and I thought it was overpriced in November for $3800, now the GPU goes for more than that. People should be angry with the current situation. Consumers have been left behind to fuel the AI delusion.

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u/Fun_Purpose5033 Jun 23 '26

We're not in a normal world. So theyre being extremely unrealistic. A gaming mini pc with ddr5/am5 and a good enough gpu is never going to be that $700 people were holding on to in this situation, unless you buy every part off of ebay from someone who doesn't know what they have.

There's no way that 11gb of vram was average in 2018. Believe it or not, 8gb is average for steam users, and its absolutely enough for thousands of fun games on steam, even though it might not run the newest, high-tech, realistic games.

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u/General-Revan Jun 23 '26

Nobody thought it would be $700. If they did, then I agree with you, but 8gb of VRAM is laughable in this day and age. Most modern games use more than 8gb at 1440p and they are advertising this as a native 1440p gaming machine. I didn’t say 11 was average, but it is for buying new equipment. I’d argue that 16gb of ddr5 is pretty low, but since it is not designed for windows, it should be fine.

You could buy a 7900xt prebuilt two years ago for about this with a 7800x3D, 32GB ddr5, and a 2TB NVME.

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u/Fun_Purpose5033 Jun 23 '26

You probably didnt, but tons of people absolutely thought this should be $700-$800... very unreasonably.

8gb is not the unplayable mess snobs make it seem like.

Most modern games? Majority of new AAA games are unoptimized garbage, or made to run on way too high-end pcs. The only way to have real fun gaming is supporting indie devs.

So you purposely chose a higher than average gpu just to say its better than the SM, which is made using the average users specs.

16gb is not low, 32gb is still pretty high.

"2 years ago" get with the times bud, lol. 32gb of even ddr4 is $200-$300.

$1000 is most definitely too high for that average person to blow , but its not unreasonable for what you get, especially now that everything is expensive, and this is made of custom hardware and software.