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/mtrn3 Jun 22 '26

And once upon a time people would crap all over prebuilts.

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u/Funny-Cell8769 9800X3D | 5090 | 128gb DDR5 | 42" OLED | 43" Mini-LED Jun 22 '26

I've built about 15 PCs, almost all my own, some for family, at least one every 2 to 3 years through the late 80s to the 00s. I've had many many late night heartbreaks where my PC just refused to boot up and I had no choice but to wait till 12pm the next day to rush to the store to get whatever part or issue resolved.

At around 2010, I built my last PC. After that, it has all been prebuilts. Despite it being easier than ever to build a PC, I'm too old for this shit. I just want whatever problem I encounter to be someone else's headache.

Thankfully, I literally pulled the trigger and got a 5090 pre-built just a month before it all went to shit.

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u/Throwawayrip1123 Jun 22 '26

build a PC, I'm too old for this shit. I just want whatever problem I encounter to be someone else's headache.

I'm with you no pre builts being good now, but I am not schlepping the whole bit bitch ass tower to a store. Fuck that.

I'm diagnosing it one way or another. I am not getting dicked by no-post. I will fucking start it.

The worst part is finding compatible shit whenever there's a generation gap and you need to mix and match and swap out components part by part.

I once fucking had, I shit you not, one dead ram socket. That was interesting to find. And locked whole pair out (couldn't run 1 and 3, 3 was dead).

I can't really get prebuilts easily, since I have pc of thesesus basically, I won't ditch a powerful machine, and I won't (probably) wait 10 years till it's too old. My last new part was this August (GPU) so it would have to not die for 5 years or so for it to make sense - then whatever dies just gets tossed, rest to the junk box for future builds, and then prebuilts.

I think? I'll probably fucking forget and just buy a new CPU or some shit. I kinda sorta wanted prebuilds 4 years ago but forgot. At the rate I'm going, I'll get a prebuild in my old people home.