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Why aren’t they using SOBRIGHT modules, are they stupid?

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.

I knew it. I still clicked but I knew it. The sound in my head. It has never stopped.

I’m rocking a 2060 with an astounding 6GB VRAM… And the only game that gave me trouble so far is Clair Obscur. I had to close everything else, and use a mod to optimize the graphics.

I’ll blame the shitty Nvidia drivers for Linux though, cause there is no shared RAM, unlike on Windows. 8GB with an AMD card should be fine -if a bit limiting- for a generation, except for high end AAA gaming I guess.

This thing has 1/6th the ongoing utility cost of a spec’d out gaming pc (assuming 850w psu and something like 4090 and 7900x3d). Granted it’s not much to run a pc like that, like 15-20 a month, but running this thing will cost like $2-3 at most. Its power supply is 43% smaller than a ps5s.

Not gonna be the deciding factor for most people but something to consider. Does 4k120 really matter vs 4k60? Do you really need to turn every slider to ultra? In a world that is boiling with energy costs that are ever increasing?

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Do you think RAM is the only thing that factors into performance?..

Many modern games can run on a 780m integrated AMD GPU(APU) with FSR and other bells and whistles enabled. One can run some games on a em680 - a palm-sized PC with underpowered 680m GPU. It is not gonna be 4k@60 of course. Could probably be 1080p@30 depending on release year, requirements and settings. But that is a super tiny computer with a built-in GPU that has more power over your typical GPU from 2015!

Now, Steam Machine is going to have a dedicated GPU that is around as powerful as 7600. With FMF and FSR it could probabaly do many games from 2020 to today at 4k@60. Hardware is not as bad as many think here. There are not so many games that require more than 8gb of VRAM. Maybe they also design SteamOS to work better with custom PCs that are more powerful than Steam Machines. Who knows? But so far, hardware is not so outdated and will be sufficient for a few years.

In my humble opinion, 4k is a bit of a joke. I pick a high as possible frame rate over 4k any day of the week.

… I’m still waiting for SOFETCH format to catch on…

itt gamers act like anything that doesn’t do ray tracing is literally a commodore 64.

yall got some spoiled child ass ideas about hardware longevity, im over here on a 3gb 960 running most things just fine on lowered settings.

This is the moment where you realize that you are either uncommonly wealthy, or spend significantly more of your money on gaming pcs than most people do.

I agree with you, but, I also realize that I’ve been building my own PCs and keeping up with the ins and outs of hardware/software design/developments since roughly the age of 14.

Most people don’t do that.

Most people (in the US) read write and think at a 5th or 6th grade level.

They just want box that make play video game go whee!

Are we looking at the same link? The one I see is listed for $1099, so I’m not sure how you managed to spend $1k less.

Though anything with an Intel Ultra CPU should go right in the garbage, but that’s a different issue.

Do you blame them? So many games these days force ray tracing. If your card can’t do that very well, then that game runs like crap.

What games? the overpriced crap pushed by big companies, that massively fails on using UE5, that do look worse than 10yo games with worse performance? Sure popular, but I’d be happy when they fails.

Fuck ea, ubi, actiblizz and all their copy-paste year to year shit!

Must be nice to have such awesome 15yo machine, as my 6yo still have only 4gb vram (1650s).

If You had enough coins to buy top top tier 2010 rig with 8gb vram back then, You surely had much to upgrade it in 2015, 2020, and also did nice 5090 upgrade this year too! Who cares single 5090rtx do cost 4-6x than whole Gabecube is expected to cost.

Having industry market is awesome, You can find something ultra powered for Yourself, and I can do find some budget for myself too.

Ngl, I’m slightly jealous You’re in the top 30%, even top of the top of it these 30%, that article is NOT about.

With AAA game graphics, 4K is kind of silly.

It kind of makes sense on consoles with fixed hardware when the devs design specifically to hit that target.

On a PC, I think high framerate 1440p is a much more reasonable goal, but frame generation and upscaling are sold to consumers like some magical solution to poor performance instead.

Some modern games look like absolute dirty brown water trash when you lower the settings a ton