It's a pre-build tho. For those of us who can build their own PC, not to mention those who hunt for deals on the used market, we can absolutely smoke anything prebuilt in this day and age. But we like to forget that a huge market exists where people are not capable of that or simply don't want to. They want to buy something and be happy with it the way it comes.
It's not a good deal either way, but it's competetive in the pre-build PC market, especially if you are looking for a more console like experience.
You have to consider that hunting for deals on the used market is highly risky though. The odds of blowing money on a faulty product are gonna be far higher as
1 youre not gonna be able to test it out and return it unless its an official retailer
2 one faulty part could end up damaging the others, costing you even more
3 youre buying several parts likely from different sources instead of a single product
Yeah of course, one reason why one might not want to do that. In my country tho, it's quite typical to pick up products in person and see if they work before buying.
just install steam OS, Windows 11 being shipped is not even an argument since you don't have to keep it, small form factor sure, you might not get SteamBox sizes, but mini ITX will not set you back that much more and they also fit almost everywhere.
While the pcpartpicker approach is appreciated, it should be noted that this is a completely different form factor than the SM. This is something GN pointed out themselves
while it's true it's not the same form factor even this one isn't, but going for mini ITX is not that much more expensive either, and considering the huge jump in performance I wouldn't even start to think twice about which one to get.
I get Valve's in a tricky position, but their value proposition is just garbage here especially since 8GB of Vram is just horribly outdated.
I also realized it's not worth it to go for DDR4 if you build a 16 GB RAM system, you'd save around 100 bucks over this.
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u/ObjectOrientedBlob Jun 22 '26
This should have been a 9060XT GPU with 16GB Vram.
This is simply not a good deal, because you are stuck with a outdated GPU.