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Valve Claims Steam Machine Outperforms 70% of Current Gaming PCs (www.techpowerup.com)

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your own time to research, build, debug, service, and troubleshoot your own build is a tax as well.

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, doesn't really take that long to research and build it though, and in my experience if you get a prebuilt, most people aren't gonna like get it serviced or troubleshoot it with CS unless there's something seriously wrong with it. They'll likely just live with minor annoyances.

The only significant benefit IMO is if you really end up needing to RMA something (like if the motherboard is shot), you can just RMA the entire thing instead of figuring out which part is messed up. However, I've had mixed experiences RMAing laptops before, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's just as bad for desktops.

It's definitely not worth $1k+ IMO. If I spent $1k more, I could've gotten a 5090.