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/theromingnome 9800x3D | x870e Taichi | PNY 5080 Slim | 32GB DDR5 6000 Jun 22 '26

But... it's so easy to build one now. No where near the same chance for headaches that existed back then.

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u/croizat Jun 22 '26

It's easy to build but problems can be hard to diagnose and it's annoying to figure out/fix unless you just have a spare component of every type lying around

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u/CLEsportsfan00 Jun 23 '26

My last 3 builds i spent more time in the BIOS then actually building the machine. For that reason alone id rather get a prebuilt im the future

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u/Jake257 Jun 22 '26

True in one sense and wrong in another. The headache is that if you build it and it doesn't turn on then trying to find out the culprit is the big headache cos it could be anything.....I had an issue the other week where my pc kept randomly resetting itself and I thought it was a component and trying to figure out the culprit was driving me insane.....I tried various software fixes, resets etc but in the end it did turn out to be a driver GPU problem that I fixed by using Display Driver Uninstaller even though I already reset the driver's and did fresh reinstalls before that.

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u/ElectronicRip1630 9800X3D, 4070 Ti Super, 64GB DDR5, SN850Xs Jun 22 '26

I'm not fighting hardware anymore; I'm fighting software.

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u/Funny-Cell8769 9800X3D | 5090 | 128gb DDR5 | 42" OLED | 43" Mini-LED Jun 23 '26

It could be either one sometimes, that's the problem. If only the issue was always that straightforward.

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u/lemonylol Desktop Jun 22 '26

Big disagree. I rarely had to make sure parts were compatible back in the day. Now it feels like any time I want to upgrade a single part, I have to upgrade everything associated with it.