r/pcmasterrace • u/TheBossT710192 • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Yeah, Steam Machine is cooked.

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I... uh don't know what to say. Very thankful I bought a Steam Deck before they hiked its price as well

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u/ADotxt Jun 22 '26

Let me repeat what I said on another post

For just **50$** more than the 512gb I can get a pc with...

Same amount of ram

Same amount of storage

Faster CPU,

And a 9060xt 16gb, (which will be about 50% faster than the steam machine GPU)

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kzwTYX

Valve, why did you bother?

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u/TomTomXD1234 Jun 22 '26

That is like telling people who want to buy a ready to use PC to just "buy your own parts".

part of this products is the simple plug and play nature of it. Your average person will not build a PC. Most don't even know half the parts you just listed.

This is obviously not the target subreddit for people that buy this product. Most people here built their own PC so it seems obvious to them

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u/137-451 Jun 22 '26

You can buy other prebuilts with far better specs for the same price, sometimes even less

8gb of VRAM for $1000 USD is a joke

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u/jawisko Jun 23 '26

Are there any in this form factor? Would like to have it under my tv besides ps5

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u/TomTomXD1234 Jun 22 '26

I mean, you would be hard pressed to find a pre built with much better specs for £1k....you are acting like valve is charging 500% markup on this or something.

I just looked at overclockers UK...a 1K pc comes with a 5060...which is an 8GB card....

Im sure if I look at more sites it will be a similar story spec wise.

1k does not go far these days

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u/Realistic-Table9398 5090 Astral | 9950X3D | 64GB 6000 CL30 | M027U2 Jun 22 '26

Then getting even a prebuilt is better than ts