I don’t think you’re making an honest comparison if you’re doing it with used parts. You can get lots of things cheaper used.
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DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day agoI just checked my local marketplaces, and it is easily less than half the price. Of course, the parts are second hand, because they’re not even sold new anymore.
Alternatively, you can also build a PC smaller than the Steam Machine, running a Ryzen 7 8700G. It’ll be even cheaper, but also considerably weaker on the GPU side.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is a fair point, but how else am I supposed to buy parts that are out of official distribution? It’s not my fault the Steam Machine is using ancient hardware.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You would price out the closest equivalent in price and performance, if you wanted to make an honest comparison, and plenty of people have specced out builds like that, with the differences between the two noted. And for as “ancient” as the tech in the Steam Machine is, it’s still better than what 70% of Steam users are running. Considering that the most popular games by a wide margin on any modern platform right now are all 10+ years old, that’s not much of a surprise.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Again, very fair point. I never said my comparison was honest, and perhaps I should have made it clearer. Times are tough, so everyone is forced to worry more about prices than they’d like to.
On the other hand though, if anybody’s gonna build a Steam Machine-like system from scratch, they’d most likely be using second-gand parts anyway, because there’s no point in overpaying.
Nothing strictly related to the Machine, but this has always been the case with PC building.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“If you hunt stuff down, buy used, and get good deals, you can do it for cheaper.”