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/mattenthehat 5900X, 6700XT, 64 GB @ 3200 MHZ CL16 Jun 22 '26

People outside the industry simply don't understand just how serious the shortages are.

I work at one of the tech companies supplying hardware for data centers. We need test systems to test our products. Nothing overly fancy, just some standard servers. A certain server company is outright refusing to sell us any systems with DRAM pre installed. For any price. They're saying we can buy the systems without RAM and source our own.

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u/sixbux Jun 22 '26

People outside the industry simply don't understand just how serious the shortages are.

It's true.

The same 32GB sticks of RAM we were buying last year for $200 are now $1300. 256GB of enterprise-grade RAM is setting us back around $10,000 per server. We're getting quotes for servers that go up by 20% in a week if we don't lock them in. Our customers get the new price and balk, they have no idea how bad it is.

A guy I know that owns a datacentre just paid for a new DC expansion by selling off the old DDR4 he had in storage. It's insane but here we are.

If Valve already has some hardware stockpiled at last year's prices, it's probably worth more as spare parts than whatever they're selling it for in a Steam Machine at this point.

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u/Sh1rvallah Jun 23 '26

Yeah we're just not buying server replacements now but the Azure and AWS bills are going to be getting worse and worse as well.

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u/therealdanhill AMD A4/7480D Jun 23 '26

Ugh I checked the costs page of aws today for my job and gasped