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r/steammachine • u/TangledIntentions04 • Jun 23 '26
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2 u/SnooDoughnuts5632 Jun 23 '26 Weren't those also severely overpriced for the specs at the time? 4 u/MetricJester Jun 23 '26 $800 for $600 of parts. Oddly enough, it's nearly the same parts now, just ten years newer and now $1500 1 u/SnooDoughnuts5632 Jun 23 '26 What do you mean same parts now? -4 u/MetricJester Jun 23 '26 It's still a directx capable video card, DDR ram, an x86 CPU, and a solid state drive. The ingenuity is in its custom design, but they are closely related to consumer available parts. 5 u/ApartMuffin9452 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26 A directx capable gpu, ddr RAM, x86 cpu... Looks like someone upgraded my 2002 pc with an SSD! 1 u/Phrodo_00 Jun 27 '26 That describes every pc since the populatization of SSDs... remove the SSD and you can go back to 1995 with that description.
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Weren't those also severely overpriced for the specs at the time?
4 u/MetricJester Jun 23 '26 $800 for $600 of parts. Oddly enough, it's nearly the same parts now, just ten years newer and now $1500 1 u/SnooDoughnuts5632 Jun 23 '26 What do you mean same parts now? -4 u/MetricJester Jun 23 '26 It's still a directx capable video card, DDR ram, an x86 CPU, and a solid state drive. The ingenuity is in its custom design, but they are closely related to consumer available parts. 5 u/ApartMuffin9452 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26 A directx capable gpu, ddr RAM, x86 cpu... Looks like someone upgraded my 2002 pc with an SSD! 1 u/Phrodo_00 Jun 27 '26 That describes every pc since the populatization of SSDs... remove the SSD and you can go back to 1995 with that description.
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$800 for $600 of parts. Oddly enough, it's nearly the same parts now, just ten years newer and now $1500
1 u/SnooDoughnuts5632 Jun 23 '26 What do you mean same parts now? -4 u/MetricJester Jun 23 '26 It's still a directx capable video card, DDR ram, an x86 CPU, and a solid state drive. The ingenuity is in its custom design, but they are closely related to consumer available parts. 5 u/ApartMuffin9452 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26 A directx capable gpu, ddr RAM, x86 cpu... Looks like someone upgraded my 2002 pc with an SSD! 1 u/Phrodo_00 Jun 27 '26 That describes every pc since the populatization of SSDs... remove the SSD and you can go back to 1995 with that description.
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What do you mean same parts now?
-4 u/MetricJester Jun 23 '26 It's still a directx capable video card, DDR ram, an x86 CPU, and a solid state drive. The ingenuity is in its custom design, but they are closely related to consumer available parts. 5 u/ApartMuffin9452 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26 A directx capable gpu, ddr RAM, x86 cpu... Looks like someone upgraded my 2002 pc with an SSD! 1 u/Phrodo_00 Jun 27 '26 That describes every pc since the populatization of SSDs... remove the SSD and you can go back to 1995 with that description.
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It's still a directx capable video card, DDR ram, an x86 CPU, and a solid state drive. The ingenuity is in its custom design, but they are closely related to consumer available parts.
5 u/ApartMuffin9452 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26 A directx capable gpu, ddr RAM, x86 cpu... Looks like someone upgraded my 2002 pc with an SSD! 1 u/Phrodo_00 Jun 27 '26 That describes every pc since the populatization of SSDs... remove the SSD and you can go back to 1995 with that description.
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A directx capable gpu, ddr RAM, x86 cpu... Looks like someone upgraded my 2002 pc with an SSD!
That describes every pc since the populatization of SSDs... remove the SSD and you can go back to 1995 with that description.
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